"Images they may not have meant" department

[jhetley]

By the way, that Fujitsu has an icon on the desktop that says "Click Me."   I haven't clicked it.  Having read Alice in Wonderland numerous times, I tend to distrust that sort of thing...

They really ought to give a clue as to what it does.  Like "Tutorial" or "Self-Destruct."

"Initiating auto-destruct sequence.  Reactor will go critical in ten seconds.  Nine.  Eight...."

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[jhetley.livejournal.com]

(Later, after RTFM)

That's actually a setup routine that initializes some software and hardware. None of the Nature Center Luddites had clicked it.

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

"Initiating auto-destruct sequence. Reactor will go critical in ten seconds. Nine. Eight...."
Grrrr. That's one of those Hollywood lines I really despise. As a former professional splitter of atoms[1], I know that a fission reactor is "critical" when it's producing as many neutrons from fission as it's losing to absorption or leakage. In other words, a critical reactor is at a constant power level. If the power level is going up, the reactor is supercritical; if the power level is dropping, the reactor is sub-critical.

[1] A little bit like splitting wood, only with really good air conditioning running. And the decommissioning crew got stuck cleaning out the ashes.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was aware of that semantic problem when I posted it. But, as you say, it's a Hollywood line...