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• jeroenhd 5y ago
  The twitter account @swiftonsecurity linked me to these videos once and I've been watching every single one of them ever since. It's very interesting to see how a set of complex systems can disastrously fail because of a small mistake two days earlier or because of some basic human error that anyone could make.
  • s5300 5y ago
    We've almost come to full scale nuclear war, I think more than once, due to failure of singular computer chips in a known failure state. Functioning modern society/things in general just working (for those of us living in developed countries) is incredibly fragile and regulations are often still taken completely for granted.
• mcswell 5y ago
  I read it, but I can't say I enjoyed it. I worked on a US Navy ship in the early 1970s, with 1200 psi 975 degree superheated steam. A couple years before I came aboard, that ship had suffered a boiler explosion, killing the four men on watch in the after fireroom. This article was too familiar.
  • crocal 5y ago
    Same thing. As a trainee I was helping a crew supervise a power plant in charge of providing superheated steam to a large nuclear facility. There was a bronze plaque on the ground in one of the technical room where some guys had been cooked alive. Superheated steam and boilers scare the hell out of me.