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Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'
The Washington Examiner ^
| Oct 12, 2017
| Paul Bedard
Posted on 10/12/2017 3:57:51 PM PDT by bitt
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To: central_va
Not that I believe the doom and gloom of that article, but agriculture is very dependent on electronics, and it’s not only possible, but very likely that the cows won’t be milked,watered, or fed without a herculean effort on the part of the farmer, and even then many will die.
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:20:11 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
To: Balding_Eagle
Many won’t die. Many will spend much more money on food. There will be massive inflation for food. Not deaths.
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:22:31 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: pilipo
“Turn your screen name into a double entendre”
You take that back!
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:22:41 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Blood of Tyrants
"some experts..........and 6 Billion"........ I do believe you may be on to something
But no. 18 months is too long. For 18 Billion, you can have them in 6 months !
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:23:48 PM PDT
by
onona
(Please Lord guide my thoughts and actions)
To: marktwain
And people aged very quickly and died a lot younger for a whole host of different reasons.
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:24:20 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Pollster1
"Suburban...Even near a smaller city, a neighborhood full of commuting accountants who have no outdoor experience and think guns are scary will face a bleak but short future."
The background of the several worst mass murderers of the past few years. Their families received high cash flows, too.
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:24:44 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: bitt
I guess it would finish the destruction that Y2K started...
To: central_va
No fertilizer production.
No transport of seed and fertilizer.
No distribution of insecticides and herbicides, or production of same.
No diesel fuel for plowing, planting, harvesting.
No electricity for milking (nearly all milk cows are milked with electric milking machines.
No electricity for processing harvests, storing them, distributing them.
If you have no electricity or communications, agriculture as practiced in the United States dies quickly. Many farms have enough supplies to operate for a month.
But we are talking a year here.
A complete plowing, planting, harvesting, storing, and distribution cycle.
Without power, how do the fuel stations on the interstate operate? How do the trains communicate with the communications infrastructure gone, destroyed by the EMP?
I am not saying that is probable or likely. I think we are tough and getting tougher under President Trump.
But *given* no grid or communications, the vast majority of agriculture stalls to a halt very, very quickly.
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:25:30 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: bitt
Damn ! I feel sorry for all of you, but it won't be me. Laugh.
Prepper ping !
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:26:17 PM PDT
by
Newbomb Turk
(Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
To: Mariner
If we protect the grid, whether the sun did it or Norks or Iran did it, we would be in better shape than doing NOTHING.
People have been warning about this for several years.
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:28:21 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
(Freeper formerly known as bushwon ;))
To: Mariner
I don’t know if exponentially is the correct term, but you are right. It has to be line-of-sight. You can get the distance to the horizon at some altitude on google, and if I remember correctly, it has to be 250 miles or so to encompass the whole country.
Combine that with the fact that the intensity of the pulse decreases with the square of the distance and it would have to be a HUGE thermonuclear EMP device to effect the continental U.S.. NK cant come close.
It ain’t going to happen...
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:29:57 PM PDT
by
babygene
(hMake America Great Again)
To: familyop
EMP strikes will not destroy all electronic appliances or vehicles in the U.S.A. EMP strikes will not shut down power grids for any great length of time, if the associated power companies have enough transformers and other needed hardware ready to install.
I believe you are mostly correct. I think we are working to get those spares in place, and the necessary protocols to get repairs done as quickly as possible.
We really do not know, with precision, what high level EMP strikes would do. What testing I know about, indicated that the destruction would be far from complete.
It would sure cause a mess for a while, though.
I agree that now is the time to prevent the nuclear arming of rogue nations. We have been at war with North Korea for over 60 years.
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:30:57 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: Col Frank Slade
Once again we have dopes who know nothing spewing sh##
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:31:22 PM PDT
by
ronnie raygun
(Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
To: central_va
Well, you're gonna have to train a boat load of people and get a boatload of buckets in a hurry, or you're gonna have some mighty unhappy heifers.
An EMP attack will not kill one cow. Just sayin
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:33:11 PM PDT
by
onona
(Please Lord guide my thoughts and actions)
To: Balding_Eagle
"Not that I believe the doom and gloom of that article, but agriculture is very dependent on electronics, and its not only possible, but very likely that the cows wont be milked,watered, or fed without a herculean effort on the part of the farmer, and even then many will die."
The harvest is in progress right now where most of the cattle are, with the grains going to the silos for safekeeping. All of the hay for the cold season is rolled up and covered, too.
There will be plenty of food for the whole country. But there won't be an EMP strike without the real nuclear weapons raining down by the hundreds right behind it. Many of the herds of cattle will be far enough away from areas of dangerous levels of fallout. The cattle ready for markets will be tested before going to processing.
So there will be plenty of food, but there won't be many people.
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:35:46 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: bitt
What an utter crock. On so many levels. Wish they would release a formal report including assumptions on how they came to this conclusion.
To: marktwain
Do you know what a magneto is? My tractor and both of my generators are equipped with magnetos. Magnetos are unaffected by EMP. There will be great difficulties but the Amish seem to be able to produce food without electricity.
Trains will be repaired quickly as well as trucks. The will get priority. Imports of grains will increase for sure and there will be inflation.
Without power, how do the fuel stations on the interstate operate?
They are called generators and most have magneto type ignition. So like I said previously.
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:40:01 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Falcon4.0
“Its to bad we cant EMP them first.
Not a move to make where there is no power grid!
Th NORKS have no electricity to boast about.
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:40:58 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: bitt
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posted on
10/12/2017 6:42:46 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
(Freeper formerly known as bushwon ;))
To: sleepwalker
Also “Ligts Out” and Patriots.
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