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[centsworth_II]

I thought some of you engineering types might appreciate (identify with?) this.

Field Engineer's Experiment Triggered Florida Blackout

"Florida's coast-to-coast blackout Tuesday might have been nothing....
But one man tried to figure out what was broken and left roughly
2-million people from Miami to Jacksonville in the dark.
The unnamed engineer, who had 'significant tenure' at the utility,
has been suspended with pay pending a full investigation...."

[dvandorn]

History is replete with examples of small groups of people (and sometimes just solitary individuals) who fail to comprehend the consequences of their decisions -- until you hit the OSM (which, for want of a swear jar, I'll simply translate as the "Ooops Moment").

For example, Chernobyl literally exploded because a test engineer decided to see what would happen if they let the core coolng water draw down without replenishment... *sigh*...

-the other Doug