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Said Santore the firework producer in delicious bit of Jersey-Italian circumlocution: > It was a computer error. A set of instructions that were given that we
by alwa 11mo ago
Said Santore the firework producer in delicious bit of Jersey-Italian circumlocution:
> It was a computer error. A set of instructions that were given that we didn’t necessarily create, that was created by the system. [0]
Sounds consistent with a scrubbing error that they’d love to talk about in ways that sounded like it was the computer wot dunnit…
[0] https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/an-oral-history-of-the-great-san-diego-fireworks-fail-of-2012 https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/an-oral-histo...
- petee 11mo agoThey describe here [1] that somehow two sets of instructions were generated, but that doesn't really make sense why that would cause zero delays between cues https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2012/07/12/july-4-fireworks-fiasco-solved-technically/ https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2012/07/12/july-4-firew...