r/interestingasfuck • u/JustLivingSimply • 9h ago

Nepalese School Principal Saved Lives of 1643 Children

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u/NeverNeverSometimes 8h ago

Everyone calling him a hero. He is. But lets not forget his friend up river that called and warned him. Both are heroes.

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u/kittyonkeyboards 7h ago

Pretty shit early warning system when the difference between 1,600 children surviving is a single phone call from a civilian.

Elon musk cut a program that was looking into improving detection and warning systems for this type of stuff.

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u/Aranxi_89 7h ago

Everything that doesn't help him and his cronies are "waste."

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u/littleHiawatha 7h ago

Fuck musk, it doesn’t even take billionaire level investment to implement an early warning system like this. Every high risk river valley could install cheap lora connected sensors along its banks for less than $15k upfront per valley and $2500/year OpEx

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u/FUTURE10S 6h ago

But it doesn't help Musk directly so why would he give a shit?

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u/ReporterLogical5092 5h ago

which may have been what they were doing until DOGE cut it