Gregory's Server@chu but why wouldn't the people be available to fix that infrastructure? I'm not saying it would not be a problem but it's not like the entire grid would go off at once and nobody could restore any part of it, is it?
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 One of the reasons there were horrendous supply chain disruptions following the pandemic was that there were what we can call circular outages. There were times shipping companies couldn't keep up with the demand for trucks to carry goods because they weren't getting deliveries of parts they needed to repair their trucks when they broke down, because there weren't enough trucks to deliver the truck-part deliveries. When a complicated system gets adequately fubared, it can wind up very hard to fix because of circular outages. For example, if enough damage is done to the electrical grid, well we need electricity to make the pumps at the gas stations work. How do you get the repair trucks to the places the grid needs to be repaired, if you can't get the gasoline into the trucks. If the factory that manufacturers the parts to repair the grid falls off the grid, how do you get them? |
@dancer_storm @chu Actually, it could be exactly like that. It’s called cascade failure. The first outage causes problems for other systems, which cause problems for further systems, and pretty soon all sorts of stuff is failing. At which point rebooting becomes challenging, even if the original issue is solved.