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The engineers survived “core dumps” and rainstorms to nail capsule reentry times.

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Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit.

"Another core dump -- looks like the program jumped off to hyperspace somehow."

If necessary, they would cut the cables, and gravity would expeditiously return the control rods to the reactor, thereby averting yet another kind of core dump.