I've been told all nuclear power stations in the US are protected by a patriot missile battery
:eeek:

surely thats going to cause catastrophic damage to the a'holes that perpetrated such an attack in the event of one happening :p

seriously though the US system is one of the worst designed it needs upgrades it has to quote a '3rd world power grid' the transmission lines which carry the eletricity around the area currently affected are not up to handling the heavy load currently placed on them as in the current IT driven climate electricity is in high demand with servers computers running all the time..............

get it right its the star wars laser system they use ;)

shhh

<sorry edited your eeek - it was doinmehedin>

not surprised - but I wouldn't want to have the job of discriminating targets in that environment?

wouldn't it be ironic if they were protected by nukes... :erm:

I'm prepared to be corrected, but afaik patriot target aquisition includes ground launched threats?

yep it was originally design as an Sta system but it was later upgraded as an interceptor bad move as it wasn't all that good the first time around, like everything ratheon builds ****!

not consulting the grunts again? - and careful with that axe eugene?

to bring it back on topic i forgot add in my opinion the system currently in place is bad it should be decentralized and not interconnected so any faliure in 1 system would mean a small area being affected example one plant serving new york and the surrounding small areas goes down the rest would stay in service untouched by it of course it means pumping serious money in to it but it needs modernising anyway

Please elaborate.

you first:)

- I mean tell us how it affected you?

the co-incidence of the worm & the power cut - was it discussed?

- of course if you had no power...

look at it this way if it was not centralized (interconnected) it would not have happend you just dont do it that way common sense says that you localize the facillaties so if one goes down you dont bugger an entire side of the us/canada :shrug:

No. Please elaborate and provide details of how "the US system is one of the worst designed." Make comparisons to better systems and tell me exactly how it is that ours is one of the worst. I look forward to your arguments supporting your position.

i have stated in the post you quoted why its is designed badly as for comparisons i can make in the uk we have local systems that go down but only affect certain areas i have had experiance of that and our lines are fine but we also need to look at our own systems and make sure it does not happen here