Epic Fireworks Fail May Be Due To "Computer Code Virus" (Skynet?!)
Via Mike Newton
As the world continues to enjoy the Big Bay Boom's Fabulous Fireworks F*ckup which resulted in all the fireworks for its 18-minute show to go off at once, the NJ-based fireworks company is insisting that this was unintentional. August Santore of Garden State Fireworks told CNN, "This is very uncommon .... there was nothing in the pyrotechnics that went wrong. It was the electronics."
According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, "The nation’s fireworks industry is watching the fallout from the San Diego show as Santore tries to isolate what he said appears to be a virus in the code that synchronizes the firing of shells." The USS Midway Museum had charged $15 to 3,500 people to watch the fireworks from its deck. Only 10 people asked for refunds; its marketing director said, "Disappointment, but understanding, is the fair way to characterize it." And U-T columnist Matthew Hall thinks San Diego should just own it, "What we lost in fireworks, we gained in legend, we gained in urban myth."
Santore said, "Thank goodness no one was injured," he said. "Precautions all worked 100 percent. We are a good strong company, and we rely on technology. We’ll take the ridicule as long as no one was injured." He added, "We did last year’s show, and this one was to be even bigger. We did this show in 15 locations around the country last night, and this was the first time this has happened. No one is more saddened than we are." He also offered to put on another show for free, "I’m very confident that whatever happened, we’re going to get to the bottom of it and make sure it doesn’t happen again." Wait, but what if San Diego wants another Super Big Bay Boom Fail?
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A fuck-up for the ages and (unlike most applications of its use) totally deserving of the acronymicon ROTFLMAO.
I recorded our EssEff fireworks using a time lapse app on my droid to compress the complete show to under a minute...
youtu.be/_FgZZ0xczbc
... and it still took longer than the entire San Diego show in real-time.
I wish I was there to see it.
I used to work in the IT field. It's typical for the computer illiterate to blame a random computer problem on a "virus." I kept getting a lot of, "Yeah, my computer is slow, I think I have a virus" when the real problem was that they had too many apps open and were low on memory.
for everyone that was once a kid that tried setting a big pile of fireworks on fire all at the same time to see what would happen, this is the coolest thing to ever happen.
Not the first time this has happened: Oban, Scotland had the same problem from an electronic glitch, not all that tasty scotch.
www.guardian.co.uk/life...
Give me a break! A computer virus? Luckily much of the public is too stupid to question this. Santore should be embarrassed for making such a statement.
A fireworks spectacular that truly lives up to its name.
Santore was later overheard saying "I'm so sorry... I swear, this has never happened before."
/illshowmyselfout
An amateur pyro's wet dream. Right after," Here, hold my beer, watch this"
The Big bay Boom in San Diego ended up being a fiasco 20 min of fireworks set off in 30 seconds www.youtube.com/watch?v... www.youtube.com/watch?v....
I still don't know why everyone is referring to this as a failure. I'd say it's 100% win. "Just blow them all off at once in a gigantic bang" sounds like the caption to an awesome party!
Ha typical human blaming it on a computer.
HUMANS MAKE COMPUTERS. All fingers point back at you.
Love,
'Bot.
R-I-G-H-T A computer virus. Sure. Nothing to do with a bug in our code. Hire better programmers!