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From: Miguel Gimenez <me@privacy.net>
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Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 14:31:08 +0200
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El 02/05/2025 a las 23:30, Carlos E.R. escribió:
> On 2025-05-02 12:28, Martin Brown wrote:
>> On 01/05/2025 21:13, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>> On 2025-04-29 14:24, Martin Brown wrote:
>>>> Spain suffered a very spectacular near total loss of its national 
>>>> grid yesterday taking parts of France and all of Portugal down with 
>>>> it. This is an unprecedented failure of a supergrid system by 
>>>> cascade failure.
>>>
>>> I should say, although too late, that it should be "Gran Apagón" :-)
>>
>> Sorry about that. I remember the phrase from my astronomy days when 
>> the Gran Canary were persuaded to go completely dark for one night 
>> only so that the Isaac Newton telescope on its peak could do something 
>> special.
> 
> Don't worry :-)
> 
>>
>> It gave everyone there an opportunity to see a truly dark sky.
>>
>> Links to it back in 1985 are now very thin on the ground. An article 
>> celebrating 10th anniversary is the best I can find in English page 
>> 31. (sorry its very big)
>>
> 
> 

As a side note, the Apagón made all my DCF-77 clocks synchronize 
inmediately. Usually Madrid has reception problems, taking even weeks to 
synchronize, but looks like it is more an interference issue than the 
distance to Mainflingen.

-- 
Saludos
Miguel Gimenez