Reactor Shutdown Darkens South Florida 356
grassy_knoll asks, "So how fragile is the electrical grid, and just what technical problems could shut down five reactors?" "Five reactors at a nuclear power plant in Florida had gone down on Tuesday and two were now back online amid a massive power outage in the southern state, CNN reported. The report on the Turkey Point nuclear plant came as four million people had lost electricity in Miami and elsewhere in Florida, with traffic signals out and major delays on roads, authorities and media said."
D'oh (Score:4, Funny)
Well, crap... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm from Florida and have no power or internet (Score:5, Funny)
Soon things will look like a Mad Max movie. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:global warming (Score:4, Funny)
A possible explanation... (Score:1, Funny)
Oh, great.... (Score:2, Funny)
I guess this is bound to crop up in CSI Miami... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:5 reactors? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:5 reactors? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:global warming (Score:4, Funny)
Five undersea cables! Five reactors! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm from Florida and have no power or internet (Score:5, Funny)
Terrorists! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Bad editorializing. (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps people should 2 seconds of research before they begin jumping to conclusions about things.
You're obviously new here...
Re:Live free or Die Hard..... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I guess this is bound to crop up in CSI Miami.. (Score:1, Funny)
*removes sunglasses*
'permanently.'
There, fixed that for ya.
Re:global warming (Score:5, Funny)
I'd love to see the two of them in a debate with each other. That'd be great. Think of the drinking games you could create off that.
Re:global warming (Score:5, Funny)
Re:global warming (Score:5, Funny)
Oh
Re:Well, crap... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:global warming (Score:4, Funny)
Naw, if anything it would take the form of a smug cloud [wikipedia.org], which isn't quite as impressive as ripping space time -- though no less deadly.
Re:D'oh (Score:2, Funny)
Homer: Hello, Oakridge, this is Turkey Point Nuclear. I'd like to place an order for a....T-437 Safety Command Console.
Technician: Uh, Turkey Point, my computer shows your T-437 is fully operational. Now I suggest you...
[Homer pours his Buzz Cola all over the console, shorting it out.]
Technician: Oh my God, oh God no! Oh this can't be happening...this -- you're operating without a T-437 Turkey Point! Ahh sweet mother of mercy! I mean, I mean, my God!
Vaporware (Score:5, Funny)
Firstly:
Where are the numbers on latency and bandwidth?
Details like this are frequently brushed aside when making unrealistic promises. Let's stop listening to the marketing department and talk to the engineers working specifically with IP over Carrier Pidgeon and IP over Avian Carrier in general. (From here on referred to as IPoAC) We have no hard numbers on packet size limits.
Secondly:
What is the average delay on DNS resolution?
Another salient fact glossed over is that IPoAC completely depends on DNS caches as name lookups are expensive. As well as how long does it take to train new carriers til they are able to follow the new routes?
These and other questions lead me to believe that IPoAC is entirely VAPOR and has most likely not even been successfully implemented in the real world.
Does anyone have any real stats we can use to examine this? Or is IPoAC just going to be rammed down our throats by another mega-corporation with an agenda? It's time to really open the discussion on IPoAC.
From the triangle-in-a-circle department. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Five undersea cables! Five reactors! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:global warming (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nothing to see here... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:global warming (Score:3, Funny)
The real story is that a bunch of electrons were pulled-over by a cop in Waldo for going c in a 25mph zone.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/florida/5365-moved-waldo-florida-speed-trap.html [city-data.com]
Re:global warming (Score:3, Funny)
LOL
Re:Vaporware (Score:3, Funny)
African or European pidgeon?
Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score:5, Funny)
Re:global warming (Score:4, Funny)