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Ocelot II

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4. This didn't "just" happen; it was a year ago.

Reply to justaprogressive (Original post)

Mon May 19, 2025, 09:39 AM

May 19

"The exercise was held from May 8 to 9, 2024, at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and at a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) site in Denver, Colorado." This program is likely to end up on DOGE's scrap heap if it hasn't already.

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The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe [View all] justaprogressive May 19 OP

I was surprised, and then saw the actual date of the simulation . . . about a year ago. hatrack May 19 #1

COMING SOON: Trump signs order to ban solar storms and solar storm research dalton99a May 19 #2

I wonder if they modeled something like the 1859 Carrington Event nitpicked May 19 #3

This didn't "just" happen; it was a year ago. Ocelot II May 19 #4

Link (I think) to the report nitpicked May 19 #6

We came close in 2012. boonecreek May 19 #5