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To: miraje who wrote (1431340)	1/3/2024 8:34:42 PM
From: golfer72	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Respond to of 1572014

Careful Mirage. TenQ will call you a Conspiracy Theorist from the Q Continuum LOL!

To: miraje who wrote (1431340)	1/4/2024 9:10:45 AM
From: Eric	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1572014

Another direct hit Carrington Event level CME hitting us from the sun could black us out for a lot longer than a week. You'd better hope we're not around when another one like that hits us, which it will, sooner or later, as we're totally unprepared. And there's evidence that even stronger solar storms than Carrington have hit us farther back in history I could not disagree more. We have protective devices developed in the last thirty years that can protect the grid from high induced voltages. In the old telegraph days these systems didn't exist! (When the Carrington event happened.) Just some "state of the art" electrical engineering that actually works. I'd be much more worried about a GRB than an EMP.

To: miraje who wrote (1431340)	1/4/2024 12:52:56 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572014

Miraje, I'm not going to post a bunch of links That's good, because you would have wasted your time comparing apples to oranges. I doubt if localized ground level terrorist attacks could cause that much damage, but a rogue nation like Iran detonating a nuke generated EMP from a satellite or missile above us certainly could.. An EMP can still only affect maybe a few hundred square miles at best. That would be great in taking out an entire city and its surrounding geographic area, but the whole country isn't going to be shut down. And like you hinted, such an attack isn't going to be conducted by a bunch of Chinese migrants "sneaking" across a treacherous border. Tenchusatsu