Other criminal acts included: the destruction of the Panama Canal by teenage vandals (2228); the explosion at the National Supercollider Fusion Laboratory in Pacifica (2231); and the Pacific Grid cyberattacks of 2244-2246, in which exawatt pulses were redirected from their superconducting cables into unprotected circuits, turning large sections of the cities of West Microsoftia (including the sacred shrine of Gatesland), Los Angeles Island, and several other parts of the already-suffering nation of Pacifica into blackened, flat wastelands.