Power systems designed by StarFleet

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Robert — 8/15/2003 6:38:13 PM (archived)

Man, Tom, what a story...

Hearing about the way the power grid collapsed because of a single fault reminded me of StarFleet engineering practices: When the Enterprise gets stung on the butt by a phaser, consoles on the bridge explode. Apparently humanity lost the art of building circuit breakers some time in the 21st century. Or the Enterprise was built by the lowest bidder! Was the North American power grid designed by time-traveling StarFleet engineers?

Glad you survived the Great Blackout of 2003. Welcome back to advanced technological civilization!

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Power outage, up close and personal - Tom Brosz - 8/15/2003 5:08:23 PM
- re: The problem may be somewhere around Lake Erie - Success_Machine - 8/16/2003 6:27:01 AM
  - re: Investigation points to loss of power line in Cleaveland, Ohio - Success_Machine - 8/16/2003 2:11:30 PM
- re: Tsk. - Marcia - 8/15/2003 10:22:36 PM
- I hate to think of the economic impact of all this - Larry J - 8/15/2003 6:59:31 PM
- Power systems designed by StarFleet - Robert - 8/15/2003 6:38:13 PM
- The adventure continues, huh? :-) Welcome back! (n/t) - McFly - 8/15/2003 6:11:57 PM
- re: No excuse - Fox - 8/15/2003 6:00:04 PM
  - re: No excuse - SDG - 8/18/2003 8:04:33 PM
  - Oh - by the way... welcome back! - Fox - 8/17/2003 2:43:51 PM
    - The Luggage - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2003 10:14:33 PM
- Nice timing. Welcome back! (n/t) - alcaray - 8/15/2003 5:44:06 PM

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