{"id":6966,"date":"2018-11-13T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/11\/13\/1972-solar-flare-caused-naval-mines-to-explode\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:43:00","slug":"1972-solar-flare-caused-naval-mines-to-explode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/11\/13\/1972-solar-flare-caused-naval-mines-to-explode\/","title":{"rendered":"1972 Solar Flare Caused Naval Mines to Explode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>There are reports out this morning that a big solar flare in 1972 caused naval mines placed by the U.S. off the coast of Vietnam to explode. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64062-mines-solar-storm-1972-vietnam.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64062-mines-solar-storm-1972-vietnam.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/today\/2018\/11\/12\/1972-solar-storm-triggered-vietnam-war-mystery\">https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/today\/2018\/11\/12\/1972-solar-storm-triggered-vietnam-war-mystery<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>Background info: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca\/pls\/public\/docs\/GSC418\/F1929448428_Solar_Superstorm__Astronomy_Sept_2008.pdf\"><b>https:\/\/oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca\/pls\/public\/docs\/GSC418\/F1929448428_Solar_Superstorm__Astronomy_Sept_2008.pdf<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <b>I remember this solar event. It caused aurora near New York City: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/carrington-flares-aurora-where-were-you.html\"><b>https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/carrington-flares-aurora-where-were-you.html<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are reports out this morning that a big solar flare in 1972 caused naval mines placed by the U.S. off the coast of Vietnam to explode. https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64062-mines-solar-storm-1972-vietnam.html https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/today\/2018\/11\/12\/1972-solar-storm-triggered-vietnam-war-mystery Background info: https:\/\/oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca\/pls\/public\/docs\/GSC418\/F1929448428_Solar_Superstorm__Astronomy_Sept_2008.pdf I remember this solar event. It caused aurora near New York City: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/carrington-flares-aurora-where-were-you.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,80,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aurora","category-solar-cycle","category-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}