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Could you give any example of such catastrophes? While I understand there are lots of such points of failure, relatively speaking, I personally feel the consequ
by fireattack 8y ago
Could you give any example of such catastrophes? While I understand there are lots of such points of failure, relatively speaking, I personally feel the consequence of them failing is often exaggerated, and more importantly, human civilization are really good at make quick fix when it matters.
- Izkata 8y agoThe Northeast Blackout of 2003 [0] was set off by a trees taking out a power line. It caused a local failure that increased the load in surrounding lines, tripping breakers, which increased the load in further surrounding lines, etc, cascading into a blackout over a huge chunk of North America. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003