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Reminded me of this classic about irradiated cows messing with a computer at a railway junction: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/crash_cows.html https://beza1e1.t
by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Reminded me of this classic about irradiated cows messing with a computer at a railway junction: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/crash_cows.html https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/crash_cows.html
- emmelaich 4y agoAlso "Always mount a scratch monkey" https://edp.org/monkey.htm https://edp.org/monkey.htm
- benj111 4y agoI thought the monkeys in this story were going to be users. Well. They are, but you know what I mean.
- dspillett 4y ago“Upon discovering this, Sergei immediately filed immigration papers with any country that would listen.” — an appropriate level of faith that the system can be trusted correct itself, I think.
- thriftwy 4y agoThe tricky part at the time was not being admitted in any country but getting out of USSR.
- thriftwy 4y agoI wonder if anybody ever fact checked this story. I expected to see something related to Mayak plant disaster upon reading Sverdlovsk. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster