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A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.
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One of the Most Endearing Bug Stories
The strongest point of every Pixar movie I've seen is that they all have heart.
While the excellent colourful animation has been consistent in quality, it's the soulful stories and memorable characters that we love and return to with each viewing. 'A Bug's Life' has always been on my to-watch list and I finally bought the DVD yesterday. It's already become a favourite after first viewing. The animation is beautifully detailed and the motion is brilliant. Not only are the characters wonderfully illustrated but also the background is given plenty of detail. Moreover these characters are so adorable as they are superbly brought to life that you'll fall in love with them. The voice cast that includes talents like Bonnie Hunt, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dave Foley and Richard Kind do a great job. Clearly, Pixar does not depend on stars (unlike Dreamworks) and they rather focus on the material by creating it with heart. 'A Bug's Life' is another winner from Pixar that I'll very likely be revisiting again and again.
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The Bug in the Computer Bug Story
In 1947, engineers working on Harvard University’s Mark II computer found a bug gumming up the works—a moth had squeezed into one of the machine’s components. After extracting it, somebody taped it to the log book with the caption “first actual case of a bug being found.” That log book, with moth intact, is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History today. Scholar Fred R. Shapiro describes what supposedly happened next:
“The moth is said to have inspired the scientists to speak from then on of debugging the computer, with bug originating as the later back-formation from debug.
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So “debug” and “bug” were bits of computer slang that were eventually adopted by the larger culture. It’s a great story—but not very etymologically correct.
The story has been nearly canonized by the presence in the lab of Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist who retired with the rank of Rear Admiral in the US Navy. Some have attributed the naming of the first computer bug to her: the Annals of the History of Computing described it as “Grace Murray Hopper’s famous ‘bug’ story” in a 1981 article, “The First Bug.” Others have been more cautious, suggesting she “likely made the incident famous.” The Smithsonian’s description of the item notes that the log book “was probably not Hopper’s.”
The real bug in this narrative, as Shapiro points out, is that “bug” in this sense actually goes back to the late nineteenth century. The Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary’s fourth definition of the noun “bug” reads “a defect or fault in a machine, plan, or the like.
” The OED cites the March 11, 1889, Pall Mall Gazette as a source: “Mr [Thomas] Edison… had been up the two previous nights discovering a ‘bug’ in his phonograph—an expression for solving a difficulty, and implying that some imaginary insect had secreted itself inside and is causing all the trouble.”
And then there’s also a letter, written by Edison in 1878, in which he refers to “‘Bugs’ as such little faults and difficulties are called.” By the publication of the 1934 Webster’s New International Dictionary, the third definition for the noun bug was: “a defect in an apparatus or its operation.”
Computer people adopted a term in use for more than half a century and brought it into the digital world. The wording in the Harvard log book—“first actual case of a bug being found”—suggests the computer programmers and engineers there were already quite familiar with the time-honored usage and were remarking on the novelty of finding an actual insect bugging up the computer.
“Debug,” by the way, was also used in an 1945 issue of the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, which Shapiro takes to suggest it was “probably preceded by several years of oral use in engineering slang.”
Nevertheless, etymological folklore, as Shapiro notes, is “remarkably persistent.” The Harvard lab log book, after all, is in the National Museum of American History, even with its caveats. Fanciful word-stories can overcome “lack of documentation, lack of plausibility” and “even outright disproof” to become popular legend.
It may be, however, that folk etymology has nothing on folk entomology. To the general public, bug is synonymous with insect. To an entomologist, a bug is more specifically a member of the insect order Hemiptera (“half-winged”), which includes cicadas, aphids, hoppers, shield bugs, and bed bugs. The Mark II “bug,” on the other wing, was a moth, part of the insect order Lepidoptera (“scale-winged”).
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Etymology of the Computer Bug: History and Folklore
By: Fred R. Shapiro
American Speech, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Winter 1987), pp. 376–378
Duke University Press
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Everything that has ever happened in the history of mankind has left its mark on the modern world. The exploits, deeds and decisions made in the past do not pass without a trace, but have a tremendous impact on what we see at the present time. Many achievements of the past can be a good example for the pride of modern man, but at the same time, history knows many fatal mistakes that led to a number of catastrophic consequences that entire countries still regret.
In the continuation of the article, you will get acquainted with some of the most fateful mistakes that have occurred in history.
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NASA, which accidentally erased the Moon landing record. In fact, there are no original records of this event.
It took 177 years to build the Leaning Tower of Pisa and only 10 years for it to tilt.
Lack of sufficient lifeboats aboard the Titanic as it was considered unsinkable.
Decca Records' rejection of The Beatles because they thought they were unmarketable.
Loss of NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter due to part of the team using the metric system of measurement and the other using the imperial system.
Napoleon, who thought he could capture Russia in winter.
Hitler, who thought he could do it better than Napoleon.
The Persians who sent the beheaded envoys of Genghis Khan back to the Khan, incurring the wrath of Mongolia.
The Dutch, who discovered Australia 100 years before the British did, but ignored the discovery because they considered it a useless wasteland.
Russian sale of Alaska for 2 cents per acre.
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The Inca ruler Atahualpa, who agreed to meet with the conquistador Francisco Pissaro when 200 Spanish horsemen ambushed and defeated 80,000 Inca warriors.
12. Those who fell for the "Trojan horse", if it actually existed.
Filling the world's largest airship "Hindenburg" with flammable hydrogen, which then caught fire and crashed.
Someone who opened the gates of the city and allowed the Turks to capture Constantinople in 1453.
14th century China that abandoned the navy and pursued a policy of isolation. Perhaps he would become more influential than any European power.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's driver who made a wrong turn that brought him to the feet of the assassin Gavrilo Princip. This murder was the reason for the start of the First World War.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor when no American aircraft carrier was in port, hastening America's entry into World War II.
Faulty design of the Chernobyl reactor, the consequences of the accident are still being felt.
12 publishers that refused to publish Harry Potter.
Alexander the Great, who did not name the heir to the throne, which led to the death of his empire.
Although no one knows the culprit, the burning of the Library of Alexandria was the biggest loss of knowledge in history.
Killing Caesar to save the Republic and not realizing that this would only lead to its end.
In 1788, the Austrian army accidentally attacked its own people and lost 10,000 people.
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90,000 fateful mistakes that completely changed the course of historyWe all make mistakes sometimes. Our oversights have very different consequences from insignificant to irreparable. But some of the human failures were so significant and large-scale that in one way or another they changed the whole world in a matter of seconds. Winston Churchill once said that history is written by the winners, but in this post you can see that this is not always the case. From the Titanic hitting an iceberg to the Deepwater Horizon crash, here are some of the most notorious failures and mistakes in human history.
25. Invasion of Napoleon and Hitler into Russia on the eve of winter
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Both Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler made their ambitious attempts to take over Russia in the summer (1812 and 1941 respectively), but the Russians resisted much longer and more fiercely than their enemy expected.
As a result, in both cases, the aggressors shamefully retreated in the winter. Neither Napoleon's army nor Hitler's army were ready for such harsh weather conditions, and according to historians, this is also the reason why they suffered an inglorious defeat, completely losing to the Russian army.
24. Order of Mao Zedong to kill all sparrows
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In 1958, Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People's Republic of China, decided that his country could do without animals such as sparrows. Then he ordered to kill all these birds. After 3 years, the destruction of sparrows led to mass starvation of the Chinese due to the fact that the food chain was interrupted. Insects that were previously exterminated by sparrows bred to an unprecedented number (especially locusts) and ate almost the entire crop in the country.
23. Ronald Wayne sold his shares to Apple
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Ronald Wayne was the third co-founder and owner of a 10% stake in Apple Computer. In April 1976, he decided to sell his stake for $800. Alas, he did not know then that today this block of shares will cost about 63 billion dollars.
22. A student destroyed the oldest tree in the world
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In 1964, Donald Rusk Currey was researching in the Great Basin pine forest when his sampler got stuck in the ground. The local forester helped the student - to pull out the tool, he cut down a whole tree. Curry later decided to count the rings on the stump and found that the tree was almost 5,000 years old. It was the oldest documented tree in the world…
21. History of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa took 177 years to build, but just 10 years after the completion of all work in 1372, it began to lean due to soil subsidence. The design was clearly made a serious miscalculation.
The tower tilted 5.5 degrees, but after the restoration in 2010, the angle is already somewhat less - 3.99 degrees. Experts are sure that for the next 200 years this legendary building will not need the help of builders and restorers.
20. Titanic wreck
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The largest passenger liner of all time, the Titanic was once considered an unsinkable ship, but during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York (Southampton, New York City) in April 1912, the whole world was convinced otherwise. Unfortunately, the Titanic collided with an iceberg at sea, which resulted in the death of over 1,500 of the 2,224 passengers on this gigantic ship. Many of them died from hypothermia in the water simply because the liner was not equipped with enough lifeboats.
19. Russia sold Alaska to the USA
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On October 18, 1867, the United States bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre ($7.
2 million in gold). The Russian authorities believed that this was a useless tundra and nothing more, and they easily parted with the northern land. Shortly after this international transaction in 1880-1890, large-scale gold mining was launched there, which continues to this day. Alaska still produces more precious metal than any other state in America except Nevada.
18. Discovery of penicillin
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Alexander Fleming, a Scottish biologist, pharmacist and botanist, did not care much about hygiene during his scientific research. It was thanks to his careless attitude to cleanliness that Fleming discovered penicillin. One day, the scientist simply noticed that a mold that kills bacteria started up on his samples. So penicillin became the world's first antibiotic.
17. One step away from a deadly catastrophe due to incorrect calculations
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In 1983, Air Canada's first airliner, a Boeing 767, was forced to glide for long periods and then make an emergency landing when the plane ran out of fuel.
Someone made a mistake in converting metric systems and incorrectly converted the number of gallons of fuel into the required number of liters for the planned flight. After both Boeing engines failed, the pilots performed what is today believed to be the first successful emergency landing of a commercial flight using a "wing slip" technique.
16. The lost hunter burned the whole forest
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Inexperienced hunter Sergio Martinez from West Covina, California (Sergio Martinez, West Covina, California) got lost in the forest near San Diego (San Diego) and decided to start a fire. Unfortunately, this bonfire led to what is today called the greatest fire in the history of the state. "Cedar fire" burned down a forest with an area of 1,133 square kilometers.
15. Londoners killed all the cats
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During the Great Plague of London in 1665, people suspected that cats were the main carriers of the disease, and began to systematically destroy this animal in order to cleanse the city of a deadly disease.
However, due to a significant decline in the cat population, the plague has taken an even more serious turn. And all because it was necessary to kill not cats, but real plague carriers - mice and rats. The great plague in London in just 18 months claimed the lives of about 100,000 English people, which was almost a quarter of the population of the British capital at that time.
14. Archduke Franz Ferdinand's driver just took a wrong turn
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The assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie (Franz Ferdinand, Sophie) in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 is considered an incident that provoked the outbreak of the First World War. This tragedy could have been avoided if Ferdinand's driver hadn't taken the wrong turn, which led the car to lead the imperial family into the hands of their killer, Gavrilo Princip. Amazed and delighted at the chance that fell to him, Princip killed both noble passengers of the unfortunate car at once - both Ferdinand and his wife.
13. Someone forgot to close the gate to Constantinople
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From the middle of the 5th century to the beginning of the 13th century, Constantinople was the largest and richest city in Europe, which did not surrender to the onslaught of Arabs, Berbers, Bulgarians and Russian aggressors. In 1453 the Turks besieged it. Some of the townspeople did not lock one of the entrance gates, through which the invaders made their way inside. The inhabitants were brutally killed or taken as slaves, and Emperor Constantine XI was eventually executed.
12. Decca Records turned down The Beatles
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In February 1962, the relatively unknown band The Beatles auditioned at Decca Records in London. They performed 15 songs, but the company did not appreciate their performance and refused to record their album. As we all know, the Beatles later became one of the most successful and popular bands in history, but without the help and benefit of Decca.
11. The Austrian army defeated itself
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In 1788, during the Battle of Caransebes (Karansebes, modern Romania), the Austrian army split into 2 camps, and the battle ended with the Austrians defeating themselves by mistake. The Turks, against whom they were supposed to fight, arrived at the battlefield 2 days later and found 10,000 dead or wounded and dying Austrian soldiers there.
10. Blockbuster blew up the hottest Netflix channel today
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In 2000, Reed Hastings approached former Blockbuster CEO and founder John Antioco to buy Hastings' Netflix studio for $50 million. Antioco decided it was too low a business for him and turned Hastings down without purchasing Netflix, then just a DVD distribution service. Today, Netflix is valued at $32.9 billion in the market. The owner of Blockbuster must be very sorry for his miscalculation.
9. NASA lost its satellite due to a calculation error
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In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million satellite.
A spacecraft orbiting Mars has gone missing due to the fact that Lockheed Martin of the engineering team used imperial units of measurement in his calculations, while the rest of the space agency team used the more familiar metric system for control orbital ship.
8. NASA removed filming of the first moon landing
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And again about NASA. There is something else that the agency is not proud of. When it came time to revisit the old tapes of the iconic 1969 moon landing, it turned out to have been inadvertently erased, and other footage has been recorded on those tapes many times since. All for the sake of saving. To create a new official version of the lunar landing, NASA collected recordings of television broadcasts of this event from around the world and mounted a digital video to correct this unpleasant oversight.
7. The baker burned down London
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Just one year after the Great Plague of London that raged in 1665, the British capital had to endure another catastrophe.
A baker named Thomas Farriner was distracted from work and his bakery on Pudding Lane caught fire. The fire soon spread to other parts of the city and engulfed 13,200 more houses and 87 churches.
6. Julius Caesar's visit to the Senate ended very badly
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Caesar's wife warned him not to go to the Senate, but the Roman politician, known for his arrogance, did not listen to his wife. He went there anyway on March 15, 44 BC. Unfortunately for the proud man, he was stabbed to death by 60 members of this very Senate, including his best friend Brutus. This is a rather well-known and sad story, but you just had to listen to the words of your beloved.
5. Chernobyl disaster
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On April 26, 1986, during a hasty nightly test of the strength of the power supply system, which included the deliberate shutdown of the security system, the irreparable happened. Design flaws and non-compliance by nuclear reactor personnel with stress testing protocols led to what is to this day considered the worst nuclear disaster in human history.
4. Fire in Cerro Grande
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The devastating Cerro Grande fire in 2000 started with a controlled fire. However, it ended up quickly spiraling out of control due to dry and windy weather. Over 400 families in the city of Los Alamos, New Mexico (Los Alamos, New Mexico), lost their roof over their heads and all their property due to a fire that did not subside for another 3 months despite all the efforts of rescue services.
3. Soviet engineers set fire to the gas pocket
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In 1971, in Darvaz, central Turkmenistan, a drilling rig made its way into a volcano crater. In order to move forward and secure the work, the Soviet engineers decided to ignite the gas accumulations, believing that they would burn at most for several weeks. 46 years later, the crater is still burning. It has even become one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country.
2. Travel of Columbus to America
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In 1492, Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean and landed on the coast of America, although he believed that he had opened a new sea route for trade with India.
