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* In Factorio (game) you can have space stations that send supplies to your ground base

* If the supplies are not caught, then they cause damage to your base

* To avoid sending supplies that cannot be caught, you can use logic controls

* A common approach is to have the station say "if (ground supply < X) send"

* This fails if the ground supply loses power, as no signal is interpreted as 0 and 0 < X

* Thus, the system will appear to work until your ground base loses power, at which point it will be destroyed

* A better system is to have the ground base use logic to say "if supply < X send signal" and the station to say "if signal received, send". This way, a power failure fails safe instead of fails active.

With a fun callout to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress




That's also easier way to design it in Factorio. When I was playing with Space exploration mod that's precisely what I did, the base sent "shopping list" and the provider sent stuff on that shopping list




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