This image is driving me insane. Why is the elephant strawberry? Why does it say “strawberry morning” (as opposed to “good morning”) in Arabic at the bottom?
Is this one of those like whatsapp good morning messages??? I’m obsessed with it. I love strawberry elephant.
I didn’t understand her at first but I understand her now and I’m in love with her. I love u stawnerry elevant. صباح الفراولة for real
Hey, I work fireworks now and I actually have some context for this! This particular show is pretty infamous and was brought up during my safety course, and what happened wasn’t technically a computer glitch: it was moreso human error on several levels.
So when you make a fireworks show, you can design it to be set to music and you can tell that to your show computer. There’s a setting called catch-up, which ordinarily would be activated if your show somehow became offset with the music so you don’t ruin the timing for the entire show. Additionally, as another commenter notes there are multiple barges involved in the show - each one of those ships has a computer attached that have to be enabled before the show can shoot. Normally it’s advised you don’t enable the computers until just before show time, but in this instance all the computers had been turned on early (keep in mind this big of a mistake hadn’t really happened before, so people being a bit lax isn’t terribly surprising).
Now, before you put the computers live, you can run the show program to check all your connections and make sure the timing is correct without actually firing the show. The lead supervisor on this show decided to test the last 8 seconds of the show to make sure everything would be smooth for the big finale. Remember that catch-up function? So all of the show computers were live, and they did what they had been instructed to do. They caught up to the last eight seconds. All at once.
Apologies if I got any details wrong, it has been 2 years since I did that course and this was essentially a funny anecdote for why you don’t set the show computer live early, but yeah. This was not a computer error, just a people error
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.”
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