Invisible wrote:
> the lights green. It's not computer-controlled to start with.) More like 
> just a collection of timers and electromechanical relays.

Depends where you are. Those movies with the guys watching the traffic 
lights in the control rooms? That's real in NYC, for example.

> I'm fairly sure a nuclear plant would just automatically shut down. I'm 
> pretty sure somebody will have thought of this.

If nothing else, I imagine they have enough batteries on site to shut the 
thing down.

> Remember the Y2K bug? The one that was supposed to make planes fall from 
> the skies and nuclear reactors go into meltdown?
> 
> ...
> 
> Nah, it wasn't so bad. ;-)

Everybody says this, but I have to wonder how bad it might have been if not 
for the hype and terror and everyone fixing everything because of that. I'd 
have felt the same way if I didn't see everyone in the FAA jumping up and 
down and cheering when 12:00 passed without anyone crashing.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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