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RPI does have emergency generators and UPS for their campus. The sign was on the fridge so that someone wouldn't do something crazy, like pull it away from the

RPI does have emergency generators and UPS for their campus. The sign was on the fridge so that someone wouldn't do something crazy, like pull it away from the wall and unplug it. Someone going to the circuit breaker and killing the power to the whole area is not something any reasonable person would do or expect others to do, the same as I wouldn't expect the cleaners to "turn off the lights" by smashing the bulbs with a broom handle. It isn't exactly reasonable to come in after the fact and say "of course someone might try to turn off the lights by smashing the light bulbs. Obviously, you should have had cages around the lights to prevent this. How negligent of you."

fatfingerd 3y ago
Over 100 years I would expect 2 failures to overlap multiple times especially if you are willing to let one slide.. I'd have to assume they were getting paged when it failed and they failed to set a new bound to resume paging for a worse failure. Anything else could have been their second failure that caused an unacceptable temperature change instead of a cleaner misreading a breaker panel that apparently only needed one failure per 25 years. Not the most scientific cleaners meet not the sharpest planners.