Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage
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Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage
#2can coming into contact with a single transformer disrupt power to the entire island?
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#3but was the monkey alright?
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This is really not OK to laugh at and I feel horrible for doing so.
Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage
#6can coming into contact with a single transformer disrupt power to the entire island?
I guess that depends on the kind of contact, and how much spare capacity you have. If you're running with very little spare, a single transformer malfunction might be impossible to make up for entirely.
A good reminder that efficiency is often at odds with reliability.
Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage
#7A real life example of a “chaos monkey”.
Folks, doesn’t matter if it’s physical or digital. Test your systems for resiliency
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#8but was the monkey alright?
Very unlikely
> The animal had come into contact with the transformer at the station, disrupting supply to the entire country
Bro was cooked
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#10This happened on February the 9th - 10th
This wikipedia article was marked for deletion, so just in case https://archive.ph/wip/7fvmI
Other forums are mentioning conspiracy theories about political oponents sabotaging the current (new) government.
No skin in that game