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[url= http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/10/10/power-failure-shuts-down-sqaudron-of-icbms/65207/ ]Are we doomed? Yes, we're doomed.[/url]
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(Hides under bed)
Who gives a ****? It's not ruined my day... 🙄
Boring
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So temporarily the chance of a nuclear world armageddon was reduced today.
I'm struggling to understand how this is bad news.
My microwave was 45 minutes slow when I got home - which normally indicates a power cut.
Could this be related, and should I be worried?
Have they tried turning the computer off and then on again?....
Usually does the trick...
"According to the official, engineers discovered that similar hardware failures had triggered a similar cascading failure 12 years ago at Minot AFB in North Dakota and Malmstrom AFB in Montana. That piece of hardware is the prime suspect"
Does that mean they have 12 year old computer hardware?
[i]Does that mean they have 12 year old computer hardware?[/i]
For your normal common or garden defence system 12 years is new!
I had an old toaster that used to trip the fuse or turn itself off when toasting bread occasionally.
Whenever I turned it back on the bread popped straight out without warning, often on fire.
Let's hope that doesn't happen there.
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Whenever I turned it back on the bread popped straight out without warning, often on fire.
See? And 'what's the worst that could happen'? World goes M.A.D.
(Panics. Soils own underclothing)
We're doomed, I tell you; [i]doomed[/i].
Doomed you say?
You are Cressers and I claim my £5!
Probably still running DOS, or at best Win95.
No Peter it's not funny. [b]We are [i]doomed[/i][/b].
Goddammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good!
Gahhhh. So somebody turned some missiles off. Big deal. Yawn.