Posted: 11/6/2010 7:33:44 PM EDT
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Well, tonight we cranked up the big machine, when a cryo-pump 4 miles away quietly tripped off.
I got it restarted within 7 seconds. This particular failure is considered unrecoverable; 5 more seconds and we would have dumped the machine, very hard. so i saved us about $300k in downtime / lost production. With 800k parameters, the hard part was detecting, evaluating, coming up with the right solution and correctly manipulating the control system in seven seconds. 
I earned my salary for the year. 
This is exactly the kind of thing they trained us to to in the nuclear navy program, back in the day. It was like being on the boat except we weren't all going to die. 
To borrow from a great man: Like I told my last wife, I says, "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes". me ––-> 
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Quoted: I have no idea wtf you just said but thanks for not letting us die. Look at it this way, Chicago would have been first. OP, I bet if feels good to know you saved humanity from an impending black hole.  That would be a cool place to see before they move the major projects over to the LHC. |
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Quoted: Quoted: What you haven't figured out is that you failed and all of us died.  So I'm really typing to a bunch of dead people?!?! http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc317/GoneShootin/runaway.gif It's like LOST man, we're all dead.  |