• Question: @jodi @anna @rob @Stefan what has been the worst accident in the lab so far

    Asked by spaceunicorn to Anna, George, Jodi, Rob, Stefan on 13 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by 522bdta32.
    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      I ended up deleting months and months of useful data with two simple letters:

      rm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rm_%28Unix%29)

      🙁

    • Photo: Rob Appleyard

      Rob Appleyard answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      A contractor was working on our computer room’s electrical system, and plugged one of the wires into the wrong place. That overloaded the power supplies on all the computers in the room and they blew. Lots of bangs, lots of smoke, and we had to evacuate the building.

      Nobody was hurt, but it did several tens of thousands in damage to the computers.

    • Photo: Jodi Schneider

      Jodi Schneider answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      The computer room in my lab flooded (ground floor, and worst floods in 200 years). All our computer systems were down for 2 days. There were better contingency plans after that — and improvements to the building. It was *not fun* for the techs.

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