As per the Ramayana (Hindu mythology), Hanuman (the monkey God) had set the city of Lanka on fire. <a href="https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/15588/why-did-hanuman-burn-the-city-of-lanka" rel="nofollow">https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/15588/why-did-h...</a><p>Just a strange coincidence.
The title sounds whimsical, but animals cause a significant amount of outages. Around 5-10% are caused by animals. When I interned at a power company I saw them install “squirrel guard” insulating equipment terminals
Holy clickbait. The title implies that Sri Lanka is totally out of power like Haiti, but that's far from the truth.<p>>Ninety-minute power cuts were implemented on Monday and Tuesday to manage demand. An investigation into the outage was being conducted by the energy ministry.<p>This is the extent of the "outage". It's more of a capacity reduction than a grid failure.
BBC's 'Mammals' [0] spends a portion of one of its episodes discussing the plight of howler monkeys in Costa Rica. [1] These monkeys die frequently to electrocution as urbanization continues. The power lines look like reasonable crossing routes above the dangerous and hostile human world. The solution they implemented was to build canopy bridges safe for the monkeys.<p>This isn't cost efficient but it's the right thing to do. Wouldn't it be nice if we could call it the humane thing to do? In general, "humane" seems to stop with human lives, despite the fact that we like to style ourselves caretakers of this planet.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.bbcearth.com/shows/mammals" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbcearth.com/shows/mammals</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5ZpLHZzWv93X70kvP2TjgzC/giving-a-voice-to-the-plight-of-howler-monkeys" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5ZpLHZzWv93X70kvP2...</a>
The best line: “There were no immediate details on whether the monkey survived the incident.”<p>Going way out on a limb here, but perhaps the monkey who disrupted equipment carrying enough power to mess up the entire country was most likely charred into an unrecognizable state. But hey, maybe it got lucky!
Related: just today came across this post on X..<p>"Sri Lanka will become next Bali as long as it gets fiber."<p><a href="https://x.com/strzibnyj/status/1890628037529727220" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/strzibnyj/status/1890628037529727220</a>
Unfortunately it's looks as if Cyber Squirrel 1* hasn't been updated since 2019.<p>This disruption would be one of the more successful operations.<p>*<a href="https://cybersquirrel1.com/" rel="nofollow">https://cybersquirrel1.com/</a>
preliminarily report for the incident is here.<p><a href="https://pucsl-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/chinthakal_pucsl_gov_lk/EeReFOUtZL1GvWxL1mklekkBrVZ-B8rtSRiAXJyq4QGGig?e=hrbcTU" rel="nofollow">https://pucsl-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/chinthakal_pu...</a>
This happened on February the 9th - 10th<p>This wikipedia article was marked for deletion, so just in case
<a href="https://archive.ph/wip/7fvmI" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/wip/7fvmI</a><p>Other forums are mentioning conspiracy theories about political oponents sabotaging the current (new) government.<p>No skin in that game
It is hard to think about Sri Lanka without recalling [0] that this is the country which recently attempted to institute a fertiliser ban. My default assumptions about their general infrastructure management are unflattering.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/fertiliser-ban-decimates-sri-lankan-crops-government-popularity-ebbs-2022-03-03/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/fertiliser-ban-d...</a>
The monkey was a foreign nation state sponsored insider testing the nation's grid. Sri Lanka is in trouble, and authorities are mobilizing fast and expanding the surveillance state to thwart future threats before they are realized. They are deploying AI at scale.