well, it seems sunny South Africa has power problems (again)....

news here !

We are having power failures across the whole country (caused endless work for me today at work).
Means the devs would also have been without power for part of today...it looks like it's gonna keep happening for a few days...

Break out the hand generator! SB, looks like you're gonna have sore arms for a few days...

But seriously, that sucks.

Bloody hell, that ain't good.

at least this site is hosted in the USA

anyone remember when we lost power in most of eastern north america?

No, but that's b/c I'm from holland!

Anyways, seriously, that sucks dudes!

Man that really sucks, hope it doesn't delay the beta.

i have a friend named Holland =o

yeah no power sucks.......

No power, that ant good, I don’t suppose y’all have a generator out back you could just kick on.

that really sucks...but hey the power will come back eventually and everything will be fine, besides the devs can use it as vacation time

yep.. our part of the world be nice if they told us when...

no generator!! NOOOOO

rembember that terrorist can take out all the unshielded eltronics in the us and most of canandas if they get there hands on a nuke

wait what am i talking about

The end…. its coming




Keep in mind it’s been coming for the last ten thousand years.

Replace nuke with an EMP bomb and it'll be right on.

a nuke can couse a EMP right?

It caused radiation and splits material into static molecules, but I don't think it emits electro magnetic pulses.

In Halo, there nukes cause EMP damage.

Okay, back to topic. I'm guessing since you guys are still able to post (RS devs) that the power outage hasn't hit you? Or have i missed a important piece of info.

The power outages are in intervals as I understand, not continuous.

I could ship you guys some batteries.

Then why does everything emmiting an electric charge suddenly lose power when a nuclear weapon is detonated. Isnt that caused be an EMP charge?

nukes are OT for this thread, although ironicaly it is because of our nuke power plant being faulty we are having power cuts around the country!

cuts are staggered around the country, so no one area suffers too much...

You know what is going on? A nuclear power plant being faulty can be serious stuff.

did the nuclear plant explode or something?

I'm pretty sure if it exploded it be all over the news and the Anti-Nuclear people would be up in arms...again. Which is interesting because i live 50 miles away from 3 mile island and 20 miles away from berwicks nuclear power plant.

But yea thats gotta suck to be without power occasionally

A nuclear plant exploding wouldn't even require news, you'd see the explosion from hundreds of miles away.

A nuclear meltdown isn't a nuclear explosion. Take Chernobyl for example, there were 2 explosions but none of which looked like the mushroom could seen in the testing of the nuclear bomb during ww2. The first explosion was the nuclear core itself then all the steam pressure created by the turbines popped the top off of the reactor cooling building

I see a small conflict there.

Well, I was off about the size I guess. I have very limited knowledge about the way plants and nukes work, at least these days.

I just watch the history channel

I could use that for my history course in school, heh.
But we are off topic again.

Any more news about the power outages Cyber?

no no, the nuclear side is fine...there's issues with the turbines

They say the have enough power now, but I wonder...

update here