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mknod  ·  3612 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scott Lowther on Project Orion

Wow. I hadn't heard of that event before.

http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA009208

And now I'm hiding all of my electronic devices in very well insulated Faraday cage.





kleinbl00  ·  3612 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Starfish Prime did help everybody discover the EMP, but the satellites it killed, it killed due to lingering radiation in the Van Allen belts. That's the truly shitty thing about orbit - nothing "goes away" it either burns up in the atmosphere eventually or drifts out into graveyard orbit.

Assuming it doesn't hit anything. Which is not a good assumption.