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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2004-09-21 02:51 pm
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Kaboom, applause

Video from an orker of Maine Yankee nuke plant going away. (Takes a few seconds to load, using whatever version of the QT plugin I have.)

I don't have any opinions about this, actually. I was, though, surprised to learn from the news that this fixture from my past had been demolished (I still don't know why it was), and appreciated that Andrew happened to be there when it happened.
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Well, except...

[identity profile] kyroraz.livejournal.com 2004-09-21 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
SimCity 2000 has some examples of what happens when that goes wrong, whether it is true or not. :)

Re: Well, except...

[identity profile] cortezopossum.livejournal.com 2004-09-21 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never witnessed a Microwave Oops in SimCity 2000 however I've never had very advanced cities for too long before I started over with a new idea for the city.

Actually there are some simple ways to prevent the Microwave Oops problem -- one of which is to have the sattelite transmitter controlled by a reference beam from Earth. If the sattelite goes off-kilter and loses the reference beam the microwave transmitter shuts down. Another is to not build the receivers in the middle of a city -- stick em in a desert or on off-shore rigs.
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