{"id":18299,"date":"2018-11-15T08:34:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T14:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18299"},"modified":"2018-11-15T08:34:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T14:34:04","slug":"the-delights-of-mother-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/15\/the-delights-of-mother-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Delights Of Mother Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend and reader sends an article on just how deep the Sun can reach into the Earth and we hardly even notice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/a-solar-storm-detonated-u-s-navy-mines-during-the-vietnam-war\/?sf202346237=1&amp;fbclid=IwAR2gqkcAykbDOjKngRpocdq8tn2AMwbbHU5Bkpddx5lnWvsfqUe1EpAabZk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">courtesy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/a-solar-storm-detonated-u-s-navy-mines-during-the-vietnam-war\/?sf202346237=1&amp;fbclid=IwAR2gqkcAykbDOjKngRpocdq8tn2AMwbbHU5Bkpddx5lnWvsfqUe1EpAabZk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Scientific American<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBetween 2 and 4 August 1972 [a sunspot] produced a series of brilliant flares, energetic particle enhancements and Earth-directed ejecta,\u201d [researchers] wrote. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And somehow, amid all that drama, space weather researchers had largely ignored another consequence of the storm: \u201cthe sudden detonation of a \u2018large number\u2019 of US Navy\u2026 sea mines [that had been] dropped into the coastal waters of North Vietnam only three months earlier.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We all know the telegraph stories from the\u00a01859, where unpowered telegraphs suddenly sprang into activity, powered by an immense solar flare that hasn&#8217;t been matched since. But sometimes these flares can do odd, odd things to unstable mechanisms, of which I would classify sea mines.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if other munitions, <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/14\/digging-up-what-might-blow-you-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">such as those on wrecks<\/a>, might also be vulnerable? There are a few wrecks that are under surveillance because of the dangers they pose if their cargoes were to detonate. Could the metallic hulls somehow destabilize these precarious munitions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend and reader sends an article on just how deep the Sun can reach into the Earth and we hardly even notice, courtesy Scientific American: \u201cBetween 2 and 4 August 1972 [a sunspot] produced a series of brilliant flares, energetic particle enhancements and Earth-directed ejecta,\u201d [researchers] wrote. &#8230; And \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/15\/the-delights-of-mother-nature\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18309,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299\/revisions\/18309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}