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originally posted by: Virole
a reply to: Blaine91555
At least acknowledge, if the media wanted to they could easily spin this as a thwarted attack on the American people as a pretext for war given the timeline of finger pointing didn't allow for a real investigation.
If you can't who did it, how can you say where it originated?
Do you have sources for what Congress and DoD reported? Also sources for the 90% dead figure. I'd like to read what you have read?
According to the Congressional EMP Commission, a single warhead delivered by North Korean satellite could blackout the national electric grid and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures for over a year-killing 9 of 10 Americans by starvation and societal collapse.
Two North Korean satellites, the KMS-3 and KMS-4, presently orbit over the U.S. on trajectories consistent with surprise EMP attack.
Why do the press and public officials ignore or under-report these facts? Perhaps no administration wants to acknowledge that North Korea is an existential threat on their watch.
originally posted by: Yourmomsentme
a reply to: ketsuko
OK. If it was "catastrophic" sure it could be a big deal. It isn't and the chances of an attack that would effect the entire country is so minimal you may as well worry about asteroids, earthquakes, or being struck by lightning.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: Yourmomsentme
a reply to: ketsuko
OK. If it was "catastrophic" sure it could be a big deal. It isn't and the chances of an attack that would effect the entire country is so minimal you may as well worry about asteroids, earthquakes, or being struck by lightning.
They were hard-pressed in New York after Sandy. Think about it.
originally posted by: whywhynot
a reply to: Blaine91555
What you say is true and even more so. A computer failure is picked up by a backup computer. Operational communications is handled differently by different utilities but it is all closed system. In the event of a total control and computer failure all power plant systems are designed to fail in a safe position. Not to say that things always work as designed.
But what is certainly NOT the case is that someone can "hack" the system from some remote location and push a keystroke and somehow "order" the plant to blow up. No way no how.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Yourmomsentme
If the power grid were collapsed for any serious length of time, that's about right. Big cities only have about a 3-day supply of food on hand. How many are dependent on medications that have to be refrigerated?
A grid collapse taking weeks or months to get put back up would see hundreds of thousands or more starving and dying, not counting the resulting chaos.
originally posted by: Virole
Do you have sources for what Congress and DoD reported? Also sources for the 90% dead figure. I'd like to read what you have read?
According to the Congressional EMP Commission, a single warhead delivered by North Korean satellite could blackout the national electric grid and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures for over a year-killing 9 of 10 Americans by starvation and societal collapse.
Two North Korean satellites, the KMS-3 and KMS-4, presently orbit over the U.S. on trajectories consistent with surprise EMP attack.
Why do the press and public officials ignore or under-report these facts? Perhaps no administration wants to acknowledge that North Korea is an existential threat on their watch.
thehill.com...
Link to commissions actually PDF is in the article.
Directly related to EMP but applicable in any mid to long term grid failure.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: Yourmomsentme
a reply to: ketsuko
OK. If it was "catastrophic" sure it could be a big deal. It isn't and the chances of an attack that would effect the entire country is so minimal you may as well worry about asteroids, earthquakes, or being struck by lightning.
They were hard-pressed in New York after Sandy. Think about it.
originally posted by: Blaine91555
a reply to: whywhynot
I can't help but wonder how much of this stuff is fear mongering for various agencies to get a bigger piece of the budget pie. Possible, but exaggerated greatly.
Edit - I think the population is somewhere between 300 and 350 million. I doubt if an attack on the power grid would kill off half the U.S.