Tech Glitch Causes Huge Fireworks FAIL

I think it was intentional so they could have something to talk about and be plastered all over the news.
 
Looks like someone forgot to add ":00" to the end of that 15...

In other news, here's a video on how to make a safe recreation of a atom bomb!
 
Nice! I think it lasted longer than a new years firework i saw once. Pew pew done.

Watched a show on discovery called pyro and they had some lasting more than 15 min that were quite impressive, synched to music.
 
i was there, that was great. then people got pissed, then they went for burritos.
 
maboblivion said:
Nice! I think it lasted longer than a new years firework i saw once. Pew pew done.

Watched a show on discovery called pyro and they had some lasting more than 15 min that were quite impressive, synched to music.
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That's how most of the small towns around where I live do their shows. Usually play 3-4 LOOONNGG songs all to the fireworks...gets pretty boring after about 10 minutes to me...but the kid looks on in awe so that makes it work for me.
 
Always wondered what it would look like if they launched all the fireworks at once.
 
NickJames said:
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Exactly what I was thinking!
 
THAT'S IT ??!!


really though, it looked pretty badass. All they needed was a mushroom cloud
 
I actually saw this from the air. I was on incoming SW flight 2057 that arrived early. Took us a friggin HOUR to leave North Harbor Drive. :mad:

jimbean21 said:
Seems like San Diego would be the last place you would want to set off fireworks :/ Or anywhere in CA for that matter.
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It was set off over water.

In related news, in the past two months I've already seen TWO tiny wildfires just off I-15, between Friar's Road and Aero Drive, burning parts of the hilly area to the East of the freeway.
 
Definitely something you'll never forget.

The fact that it was a synchronized failure to all 3 boats really does lead me to believe it was a programming/timecode error, where someone wrote the program for 15 seconds instead of 15 minutes... but then again, they HAVE to run a simulation to check for sync, wouldn't they?
 
c4v3man said:
Definitely something you'll never forget.

The fact that it was a synchronized failure to all 3 boats really does lead me to believe it was a programming/timecode error, where someone wrote the program for 15 seconds instead of 15 minutes... but then again, they HAVE to run a simulation to check for sync, wouldn't they?
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The theory coming out of the company is that when they sent their final synchronization signal, some error occurred (whether it sent the wrong signal, the computer freaked out, electric issue....they don't really know yet), causing all of the fireworks to launch. They'd been testing this for the past few days leading up the show and hadn't seen any issues before this rather spectacular issue.
 
batteriesnotincluded said:
From the look of it in some other videos, they did have 3 separate locations all going off at once.

Not just a failure in 1 location, but all 3 of them. That's an impressive failure.
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c4v3man said:
Definitely something you'll never forget.

The fact that it was a synchronized failure to all 3 boats really does lead me to believe it was a programming/timecode error, where someone wrote the program for 15 seconds instead of 15 minutes... but then again, they HAVE to run a simulation to check for sync, wouldn't they?
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Could be. A news thing i heard said that they send the programming out to the devices and then they ignite according to the programming. However in this case that isn't what happen. as soon as the boats got the programming they instantly started firing off everything. while not "all at one" withing a few seconds of each other. Very well could be some type of programming error where somebody programmed it incorrectly or at the very least the boats misread the commands. they tell it to wait 5 minutes then start the effects doing them every so often for 15 minutes or whatever and instead it sees (or they actually told it) wait 5 seconds then do everything in a few seconds time.

Either way that is going to be a very costly mistake for that company and probably hurt their business.
 
A guy next to me on an airplane yesterday had a paper with an article on this. Supposedly there was a bug in the controller system...however the funny part is that the company was using the same system for 3 displays in San Diego...so all 3 went off at the same time (can see it at the start of the vid).

Makaveli@BETA said:
10k in fireworks done in 15 seconds i'd be pissed lol.
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Actually the article said it was $400k :D Now the city and the company are trying to decide how best to compensate for the mishap.
 
Xrave said:
Actually the article said it was $400k :D Now the city and the company are trying to decide how best to compensate for the mishap.
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I thought insurance was mandatory to be able to do anything in the US?
 
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