Brownouts, shorts, explosions and the unix pc.

[jeffrey templon]

In article <37881 at cup.portal.com> thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:

>White Sands Missile Range circa late '50s or early '60s: a soldier took a
>shortcut through the "beam" in a multi-megawatt RADAR installation and keeled
>over, and it wasn't apparent what happened until after the autopsy: certain
>internal organs were cooked.  This incident is "rumored" to have been the

Yeah, this is a problem.  I got interested in Solar Power Satellites at
one time and did some research.  This was one of the worries - for those
baffled, an SPS is a big satellite with solar panels, converts sunlight
to electricity and then beams it down to earth in microwave form - that
if somehow the guidance got screwed up, there would be this swath of
destruction cut by the wandering power beam.  Even if it did stay on target,
they would be forever collecting birds and small rodents which died near
the receiving antennas.

Maybe we should rename the new group to comp.sys.3b1.boom.boom.boom !

					Jeff