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Satellite Views Of The Blackout
An anonymous reader writes "These Before and After satellite views of the blackout, from the NOAA, show the geographic extent and intensity of the outage. Toronto, Ottawa, and Detroit seem the worst hit. Currently, a cnn article mentions that a reverse of power flow around Lake Erie may have caused an overload that triggered the programmed shutdown of the power grid. Would be interesting to know how the system and software works, but then again, that information could be dangerous in the wrong hands."
Blaming things on M$ is cool! So is using a dollar sign in M$. You are so cool! I want to be cool like you. Please. May I be so cool like you? You called someone a terrorist. That is cool too. Much respect to you sir.
I really do envy you and your extreme coolness. One day there will be a "+1 This guy is too cool for school" mod.
They got hit by 1.2 Jigawatts.
I saw this link hours ago on FARK. Slashdot is getting behind.
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I did NOT learn everything I need to know in kindergarten.
Whatever happened to UFO theories? Are we SURE that space aliens didn't cause this? Didn't the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" predict this nearly exactly?
I believe it had to do with the lack of electrical currents in the power lines. That is just my opinion as I am far from on expert in this field.
It's a good thing all the green lights marking the state borders stayed on, or there could have been real trouble.
I cant see my house from here !
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
*viewing from space*
... !
Kodos: Foolish Earthlings! Relying on such a primitive thing as electricity!
Kang & Kodos: HA HA HA HA
*the ships lights go out*
Kodos: You forgot to feed the hamster again didn't you?
I tell you what... As someone who was affected by the blackout (and still having brown&*!@$%^34356
#$#@%&%$7~~~~$#@$%^
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Life is the leading cause of death in America.
New York's governer blamed Canada for the cause of the outage but our Mayor Mel Lastman answered back with, "How many time have you seen the American's take the blame for anything?"
Some people on bugtraq are already speculating that the blaster worm may have had something to do with it...
Dude, people everywhere are speculating that their own personal boogeyman is responsible. Here in New York, Mets fans are blaming Yankee fans, Brooklyn is blaming Manhattan, and everyone is kinda suspicious of Jersey...
Too bad X-Files has been cancelled, eh?
Neo just chose to save Trinity instead of rebooting the matr...
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Because there's nothing to do in Dayton after 6 pm?
Umm, it would go dark?
The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach
"Those damn topless legally-married lesbian pot-smoking hippies! Shut 'em down!!!!
(a proud Canuck)
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
Actually, that picture is real, it was taken when the Sun went out for a few minutes back in 1987. You see, there's little gnomes that live in the Sun that constantly shovel hydrogen into it, and they went on strike. The picture was actually taken by a camera that was really really big and has a funky lens that stretches around the entire planet, designed for just the occassion when the Sun would blackout.
I also notice a little place called "Canada" missing from the map.
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