[kmoser]

Pinging weather stations should be a good indicator. If you notice a bunch of contiguous ones no longer responding, or sending back huge temperature readings, there's a good chance a nuclear apocalypse is imminent. (Just ignore the few statistical outliers: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/europe/france-weather-sensor-...)

[chromacity]

> there's a good chance a nuclear apocalypse is imminent.

Or that an excavator took out some fiber.

[voxadam]

For network engineers is there really any difference between an excavator taking out your network and an actual apocalypse?

[tintor]

I run to my fallout shelter every time Google fails to load.

[vonunov]

the FCC doesn't seem to think so

[hammock]

Or the Polymarket hairdryer mafia is out in force

[kmoser]

Except that taking out fiber won't generally result in a roughly circular shape of lost signals, with the ones still remaining on the fringes giving readings that off the charts.