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Re:Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard by bitexploder on Sunday May 05, 2019 @08:18PM (#19835931)
Serious tangent, but the idea of physics failing amuses me. One night we had an Earthquake in an area that basically almost never has them. Gentle shaking. It woke me and my wife up. I remember looking out my window for some sign of nuclear weapons going off or something. Nothing. I blurted out “Earthquake” all in about 10 seconds of processing. Rolled over. Went back to sleep. My wife was anxious the rest of the night and could not sleep from “what if” scenarios. One of her concerns was “what if physics was broken”?!
Re:Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard by bobsil1 on Sunday May 05, 2019 @10:18PM (#19836361)
What if the moon’s too bright? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconstant_Moon
Re:Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard by selimthegrim on Sunday May 05, 2019 @10:45PM (#19836440)
What if it’s only there when someone looks?

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-moon-there-when-nobody-looks-If...

Re:Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard by vidanay on Sunday May 05, 2019 @10:40PM (#19836423)
Damn...I read that link as "Incontinent Moon"
Re:Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard by mikorym on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:46AM (#19838000)
> One of her concerns was “what if physics was broken”?!

I think this is the wish of very a many physicist as they drink their morning tea and contemplate the day.

Re:Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard by magduf on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @06:19PM (#19853977)
No place on the planet is immune to earthquakes, it's just that they're much more common in some places than others (i.e., near fault lines). The continental plates are always under stress and can move at any time.
Re:Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard by touisteur on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:02AM (#19836995)
That's kind of the plot of 'Ravages' (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes,_Ashes) a French SF novel by Barjavel.

Electricity suddenly stops working.

Re:Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard by sgt101 on Monday May 06, 2019 @04:03AM (#19837600)
Re:Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard by Haga on Monday May 06, 2019 @02:55AM (#19837348)
So neurons stop working?
Re:Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard by jerf on Monday May 06, 2019 @09:04AM (#19839007)
I've seen stories that address that by positing that it turns out that our intuitive understanding of ourselves as fundamentally "simple" entities is in fact correct, and the electricity our neurons used was just an epiphenomenon based on our local conditions. If you physically move your body into another location, suddenly those rules will work on you, and lo, you really will be running on the 4 humors, or whatever other theory is in play.