Sci-Fi Short Story - Black Box by Yousureimnotarobot| Humans are Space Orcs? | HFY | TFOS885

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[@Cretaal]

And the phrase comes full circle. Common story for the origin of the term "a bug in the system" is that cockroaches and other bugs were attracted to the heat of old computers, crawled over two wires and connected them, causing a data glitch or frying something in the process, hence the errors were mostly just bugs in the system. Edit: The first instance was, indeed, a moth which coined the term, but the phenomenon itself encapsulated a few different bugs and their interactions with burgeoning electronics technology.

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bzzzzt

[@henrypaleveda7760]

let 'em fry!

[@nvfury13]

And moths deciding that the light from the vacuum tubes was great, until their crashing into them was making them unseat.

[@calvingreene90]

The first verified bug was a moth that got caught and killed by a relay.

[@DepressedCrow]

​@@calvingreene90 the person that discovered that actually has the moth framed in their house as a trophy

[@RC-sr4cs]

This reminds me of a saying from an old movie: “Anyone can piss their pants (, Larry), but not everyone knows how to stop doing that after their ma stopped breastfeeding them”

[@barelyasurvivor1257]

Alien,"it can't fail because it never has before!" Human Engineer, " Anything can fail at anytime, anywhere, and it will be at the worst possible time!"

[@kiritotheabridgedgod4178]

Xeno: "This system has worked flawless for hundreds of years, why would we need to failsafes?" Human : *backing quickly away* "right, I'm gonna leave now because you just triggered both a death flag and invoked sods' law"

[@ryantomer4126]

@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 Is your name a reference to SAO abridged?

[@kiritotheabridgedgod4178]

@@ryantomer4126 what do you think?

[@ryantomer4126]

@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 So yes? Cause if so....How the fuck did you survive that cliff? I saw you fall!

[@kiritotheabridgedgod4178]

@@ryantomer4126... A quantum super computer, calculating for a thousand years, could not even begin to approach the number of fucks, I do not give.

[@ryankaiser2702]

So a bacteria that eated metal and just sorta grew in the shop eating power until it got to the point and exploded is what killed the ships. A bacterium that was carried by a popular pet for the alien race and it used in hunting.

[@boomchacleKSP]

@@TheTechmaster1999 Bacterial corrosion is actually not that unheard of. I find it interesting that someone actually used it in a story. Look up "biologically induced corrosion"

[@membranealpha5961]

dont want you to be offended but you really need to proof read your comments cause this made me visibly cringe

[@StarSong936]

@@boomchacleKSP Look up rusticles which is a real thing, very odd to me, but yes it happens. I've also seen videos about snoticles. They look like something that would drip out of your nose, but what drops off them is concentrated sulfuric acid.

[@boomchacleKSP]

@@StarSong936 that's kind of gross but interesting at the same time

[@johnathanblackwell9960]

@@TheTechmaster1999 Shit we have a fungus that eats some greases and lubricants used in aviation

[@normiesalvador1854]

I never thought that a story which is basically the NTSB in space would be so engrossing.

[@AgroSquerril]

lol

[@SkylerLinux]

GTSB*

[@jamesmilton6529]

Goggle the USSR aviation accident that killed 13 admirals. Spoiler: It was the Toilet paper

[@theduke7539]

@James Milton it would never have happened if the soviets hadnt censored their own media. There had been multiple accidents like that before, the only reason that one got so much attention was because of how many people died and the ranks of all the men on board

[@merlinathrawes746]

Definitely more than just 'bugs". But somehow I can hear Scotty and McCoy arguing over this.

[@muninrob]

Time travel - use FTL to catch up with the light from the event and watch it happen live. (again)

[@pedroarjona6996]

With a good telescope

[@szeth5287]

Light disperses over time, and distance. At most you’d be able to find some warped distortions of fragments

[@199022009]

They used this in the Battlefield Earth book. They teleport a drone with good cams towards a part of space far enough to "see" into the past.

[@mage3690]

Well yes, but I doubt that would've told them much in this case. They're looking for internally located bacteria growth, hard to spot that on a telescope.

[@StarSong936]

Reminds me of a story Admiral Grace Hopper once told. She worked on the Mark 1 computer at Harvard. One day, the computer went down. The tracked the problem down to a moth that had got stuck in one of the relays. After that, when they had downtime and someone would ask what was going on they would say they were debugging the computer.

[@Renegadebane]

If we can teach cats to snuggle with rats, their basic primitive food, they'll be fine with space bats under observation.

[@ethanmoon3925]

Every species on this channel sounds like old pirates who smoke. Go on :)

[@rainbowchaser73]

Q-quarantine *war flashbacks* not again you can't make me go back in noooo!!

[@bhdw13]

YousureImnotarobot... Thank you.

[@jeanannd]

Yes, give other species Black Boxes and help improve safety for everyone. From the Black Boxes they can find mistakes and hopefully save others in the future. This is a future tale I'd like to see so all intelligent life forms may prosper. Flying light and color producing furry friendly bats like our cats. Will need to wash their pets and get rid of that bacteria or find something that eats the bacteria .

[@carlfranz6805]

Might have been more fun if it were a fried moth... the origional "bug". RIP Admiral Hopper

[@AgroSquerril]

what brought down your fleet? er a fly in the ointment... so to speak

[@dalemorgan8263]

Somehow I knew there'd be an emergency SCRAM when the xeno cap said he'd had something going on with the lighting.

[@jamesmilton6529]

I'm reminded of the squirrel the caused a city wide blackout.

[@OGSontar]

Bugs can be nasty like that.

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Thank you. You and your stories have definitely helped

[@LegendStormcrow]

The first computer bug was a literal bug that bridged a circuit, frying both it, and the system.

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A hero with a sliderule and spreadsheet.

[@siyavuyafamatye380]

Holders of dark secrets sounds like a better name for the black box

[@GuukanKitsune]

I like 'The Voices of The Dead' myself.

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liked the scottish accent. Thanks for the entertainment for my long, boring nights at an empty dennys

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[@GenStallion]

I'm pretty sure that was a reference to the great Montgomery Scott from star trek.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

Bart is featured in another story that I've seen from Agro. I think it was called "ISHMAELl"

[@chrisdufresne9359]

@@henrypaleveda7760 Happy Space Dragon noises

[@TheMonkey747]

As far as I am concerned, any engi in space can be voiced as Scottish.

[@alexs5814]

holy fucknuggets that was terrifying!

[@marshmallowgod284]

An interesting story didn't think the bacteria was the problem

[@shinraset]

The tiniest thing that no one thinks about is the thing that always causes the most trouble!

[@UNSCPILOT]

I mean, even normal everyday bacteria in your own digestive system produces small amounts of highly explosive Methane gas. The bacteria on those ships were just making a even more sensitive and powerful explosive by accident. Being light sensitive is not unheard of either for reactive compounds (see film photography), all and all I find it reasonable, just viciously negligent on the Xeno's part

[@StarSong936]

I like this writer's user name. Even though I eat, and have to eliminate as a consequence, how can I know I'm not a robot if we live in a holographic simulation? How do we test for such a thing?

[@AgroSquerril]

always an interesting question

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The Grand Design is a novel I heard, you might enjoy it.

[@jameswhite699]

Wow, what a story

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This channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites

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@@AgroSquerril Keep up the good work! you've got some top notch sci-fi on your channel, I love hearing tales about humans being badasses, though I might be bias as I am a human myself.

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Now this was good scifi! For the algo-rythm!

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[@gemmel3197]

Really enjoyed this.

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[@dantreadwell7421]

Whole new meaning to a bug hunt.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

in space there's always another meaning to "bug hunt"

[@yomogami4561]

good story and a new meaning for debugging a system

[@WallNutBreaker524]

I really love these stories, they intrigue me, especially when they are this good that they get into specific human technology or subjects and explain ( explicate? Clarify? ) Basically give information on them, why they were created and used etc. Adds to my knowledge and is entertaining.

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Light and enjoyable. Nice.

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[@AliceDeBois]

Moths in the machine... Lol

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Good story.

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13.2k subs... way to go Mr Squerrill, I am proud to be one of the 13k.

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Nice use of the Scottish accent there.😉

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“Bats” again? Can you spell Wuhan? Creepy because it’s so possible.

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Wouldn't the critters in this be closer to Sugar Gliders?

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