{"id":2662,"date":"2013-08-01T14:37:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2013-08-01T14:37:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:37:16","slug":"massive-solar-flare-narrowly-misses-earth-emp-disaster-barely-avoided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/08\/01\/massive-solar-flare-narrowly-misses-earth-emp-disaster-barely-avoided\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP disaster barely avoided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere had been a near miss about two weeks ago, a Carrington-class coronal mass ejection crossed the orbit of the Earth and basically just missed us,\u201d said Peter Vincent Pry, who served on the Congressional EMP Threat Commission from 2001-2008. He was referring to the 1859 EMP named after astronomer Richard Carrington that melted telegraph lines in Europe and North America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically this is a Russian roulette thing,\u201d added Pry. \u201cWe narrowly escape from a Carrington-class disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pry, Cooper, and former CIA Director James Woolsey have been recently demanding that Washington prepare the nation\u2019s electric grid for an EMP, either from the sun or an enemy\u2019s nuclear bomb. They want the 2,000-3,000 transformers in the grid protected with a high-tech metal box and spares ready to rebuild the system. Woolsey said knocking out just 20 would shut down electricity to parts of the nation \u201cfor a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Washington is giving them the cold shoulder, especially the administration. Woolsey told Secrets that some in Congress are interested in the issue, but the administration is just in the \u201cbeginnings\u201d of paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/space\/?x=entry:entry130801-123404\">Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP disaster barely avoided<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere had been a near miss about two weeks ago, a Carrington-class coronal mass ejection crossed the orbit of the Earth and basically just missed us,\u201d said Peter Vincent Pry, who served on the Congressional EMP Threat Commission from 2001-2008. He was referring to the 1859 EMP named after astronomer Richard Carrington that melted telegraph lines in Europe and North America. \u201cBasically this is a Russian roulette thing,\u201d added Pry. \u201cWe narrowly escape from a Carrington-class disaster.\u201d Pry, Cooper, and former CIA Director James Woolsey have been recently demanding that Washington prepare the nation\u2019s electric grid for an EMP, either from the sun or an enemy\u2019s nuclear bomb. They want the 2,000-3,000 transformers in the grid protected with a high-tech metal box and spares ready to rebuild the system. Woolsey said knocking out just 20 would shut down electricity to parts of the nation \u201cfor a long time.\u201d But Washington is giving them the cold shoulder, especially the administration. Woolsey told Secrets that some in Congress are interested in the issue, but the administration is just in the \u201cbeginnings\u201d of paying attention. via Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP disaster barely avoided<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[642,1576],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-emp","tag-solar-flare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}