U.S. Needs To Prepare For An EMP Attack or CME Event

[Squiggy]

Are you now claiming that I've managed to subvert the board so I can edit posts without them appearing to be edited?

Are you claiming that posts can be changed in any way after appearing on the board without being labeled as "edited by"?

You have several minutes to change your post. After those first couple of minutes go by it ads the "edited" tag, after a day or so it won't allow you to edit at all. So you only piece of evidence here is pretty worthless. I hope you had something else to back up your claim.

In any case, if we were to just cover the United States with a bowl of some sort and bolt it to the ground, and another bowl to go over Yellowstone...and something about magnets...we'd be safe forevar.

Manually Edited by: Your Lord, God

 

[Balrog]

I'd be more worried by an attack by EMF, that one-hit wonder band from the 90s.

 

[cooleddie74]

That's unbelievable.

 

[Knight Templar]

Are you now claiming that I've managed to subvert the board so I can edit posts without them appearing to be edited?

Are you claiming that posts can be changed in any way after appearing on the board without being labeled as "edited by"?

You have several minutes to change your post. After those first couple of minutes go by it ads the "edited" tag, after a day or so it won't allow you to edit at all. So you only piece of evidence here is pretty worthless. I hope you had something else to back up your claim.

In any case, if we were to just cover the United States with a bowl of some sort and bolt it to the ground, and another bowl to go over Yellowstone...and something about magnets...we'd be safe forevar.

Manually Edited by: Your Lord, God

Let me see if this works like you and CE say?

Okay, you are correct about "last edit" not appearing.

 

[Squiggy]

There's nothing to "see". It just does. Editing before the tag is called a "ninja edit" and it occasionally bites people in the ass.

 

[Trekker4747]

We have more to worry about from the Yellowstone Caldera

Now that has the potential for what could be a very, very interesting thread. Has anybody ever started one to discuss Yellowstone and its potentially lethal dangers to the U.S. and the North American continent? The Caldera is one of those oft-ignored and shoved under the carpet realities of life that, at some point in the future, will make itself evident to everybody who knows and cares about its existence or not. I'd just as soon be long dead and gone by the time that thing decides to blow its top and render a significant portion of the lower 48 states little more than an uninhabited wasteland.

Some forward-thinking young fellow here a year or so ago had a plan to build a large pressure-dome over the caldera to suppress any future eruption. I wonder if that brave, brilliant, young man ever got his grant to do it with.

Let me see if this works like you and CE say?

Did you miss the post where I explained, and demonstrated, this very thing to you?

 

[Brolan]

I like your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Just get a copy of American Legion magazine from last year.

Various other publications have addressed the dangers as well. Including Popular Mechanics all the way back in August of 2001 IIRC.

Popular Mechanics has been telling the world that the Moller Skycar was going to give every family a flying car every year since the 70s. Meanwhile, the thing hovers 15 feet in the air on a tether, barely, and Moller has been successfully sued by the SEC for fraud. It's not exactly the most reliable source. They play up the coolness factor or fear of things to sell magazines just like anyone else.

Don't forget how they also say blimps are coming back every few years as well. But the skyway above my house is amazingly blimp-free.

 

[Trekker4747]

I keep hoping blimps will come back too so that way the world can be more like "Batman The Animated Series" and we can see that blimp-mooring station/gangway on the spire of the ESB used.

 

[cooleddie74]

900-foot-long passenger blimps would be so awe-inspiring to see in our skies, wouldn't they? They'd be slow as hell compared to a jet but just imagine the sight of an RMS Titanic-sized airship floating a few thousand feet above your head as you go outside to your car first thing in the morning.

If that wouldn't wake you up I don't know many things that would.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Just get a copy of American Legion magazine from last year.

Various other publications have addressed the dangers as well. Including Popular Mechanics all the way back in August of 2001 IIRC.

Popular Mechanics has been telling the world that the Moller Skycar was going to give every family a flying car every year since the 70s. Meanwhile, the thing hovers 15 feet in the air on a tether, barely, and Moller has been successfully sued by the SEC for fraud. It's not exactly the most reliable source. They play up the coolness factor or fear of things to sell magazines just like anyone else.

Don't forget how they also say blimps are coming back every few years as well. But the skyway above my house is amazingly blimp-free.

You need to move to the Red Universe or Pete's World for your blimps.

 

[M'Sharak]

I have read (okay, it was in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science so there) that NASA had plans to put a satellite in orbit that could provide some warning of mass CMEs

This one?

The one launched in 1997 with enough fuel on board to maintain its station until about 2024?

Also: STEREO (A & B) and SDO

 

[Starkers]

900-foot-long passenger blimps would be so awe-inspiring to see in our skies, wouldn't they? They'd be slow as hell compared to a jet but just imagine the sight of an RMS Titanic-sized airship floating a few thousand feet above your head as you go outside to your car first thing in the morning.

If that wouldn't wake you up I don't know many things that would.

Ah you'd get used to it eventually

(It would be a heck of a sight at first though!)

 

[trekkiedane]

...and something about magnets...

 

[cooleddie74]

^
It all makes sense now! Tacky will save us all from the Space Lizards' massive suborbital EMP burst in December by using his savant-like gift with magnets to repel the electromagnetic shockwave and save the human race from being brought to its knees!

How could I have been so blind!

 

[trekkiedane]

Don't forget how they also say blimps are coming back every few years as well. But the skyway above my house is amazingly blimp-free.

Well, a flying car is a question of technology i.e. a serious investment in R&D (and finding a way to keep morons out of them) but airships tend to need large amounts of Helium and are becoming less and less commercially interesting with every single rise in Helium prices.

 

[Trekker4747]

Very true, with rising Helium prices and dwindling supplies we're not likely to see any airships anytime soon. (Not that there was ever a chance in the first place. ) But they were really meant to be the cruise-ships of the sky that'd have lounges and you as a passenger would have an actual cabin. A trip from NYC to LA would take the better part of the day. Got to admit, that does have a certain nifty appeal to it. A lot like riding a train only in the sky!

But with Helium going up, hot-air methods being wildly impractical and Hydrogen having... obvious problems then we'll never see any nifty airships

 

[trekkiedane]

I have often imagined airships more like floating hotels you took a leisure cruise on than any part of a serious transportation system.

I'd love to spend a week floating over some continent -with a few stops to go and meet the natives; doesn't really matter where...

 

[Trekker4747]

I have often imagined airships more like floating hotels you took a leisure cruise on than any part of a serious transportation system.

That's what they were intended to be, more analogous to the great ships of the see common in the early part of the last century before intercontinental flights in airplanes became possible. A trip between the two US coasts was expected to take a little over a day and passengers did, indeed, have a smallish cabin with a bed and meager bathroom facilities and on board the ship were dining areas.

It might have happened but the Hindenburg was obviously a huge wrench in things (though filling it with highly explosive Hydrogen wasn't a fantastic idea) and planes quickly became more practical and faster. Having facilities on board for a extended stay wasn't for leisure or pleasure it was out of necessity for the length the trip would take. If they could get you there quicker and not have these things they would have.

Which is pretty much why even our jumbo jets today don't have these facilities. The 747 was intended to be one of these "cruise ships of the sky" used for very long trips and would include sleeping and dining areas. It just became more practical and more profitable to take those spaces and make it for seating.

Hell, why do you think the railroad industry struggles? When people travel time is of the essence they want to get there now not a day or more from now. Traveling by train with overnight stays on the train is usually an intended part of the trip like taking a cruise, not about getting from Point A to Point B.