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Political extremists have attempted a number of attacks on electrical infrastructure and substations in recent years, with a goal of sowing chaos and civil conflict. The plots have repeatedly ...
A man was found guilty of conspiracy to damage an energy facility after officials say he planned to attack transformers inside Maryland electrical substations and cause a “cascading failure ...
Metcalf sniper attack CCTV footage (Attacks begin at around 1:54) Location Coyote, California, U.S. Date April 16, 2013 (2013-04-16) 12:58 – 1:50 a.m. (PDT) Target PG&E Metcalf substation Attack type Sabotage Weapons 7.62×39mm rifles On April 16, 2013, an attack was carried out on Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Metcalf transmission substation in Coyote, California, near the border of ...
The attacks serve both as a means of physical destruction and as a psychological weapon to pressure Earth into granting lunar independence. [ 28 ] In The Mote in God's Eye (1974) by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle , kinetic orbital bombardment is depicted as a strategic military option, utilizing high-velocity projectiles launched from space to ...
A real attack could have destroyed the unit much more quickly. [6] For example, a generator built without a rotating rubber coupling between the diesel engine and the alternator would experience the crankshaft-destroying abnormal forces in its diesel engine immediately, given the absence of a shock-absorbing material between these two rotating ...
If a tether breaks, the backpack will propel them back to the ISS. If that fails, saving an astronaut floating off into space might require several tethers hooked together, a SAFER, and, to be ...
Such a result could happen even with robust space pollution controls, as a lone malicious actor on a planet could cause a Kessler syndrome scenario. [30] Humanity could be on the path to a similar fate, soon to trap itself on Earth with no future as a spacefaring civilization. [ 31 ]
On April 16, 2013, an attack was carried out on Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Metcalf transmission substation in Coyote, California, near the border of San Jose.The attack, in which gunmen fired on 17 electrical transformers, resulted in more than $15 million worth of equipment damage, but it had little impact on the station's electrical power supply.