They're waiting for you Gordon...

faetal on 19/3/2012 at 13:18

Just had a very eerie moment while working in the lab, someone started up one of the old centrifuges which barely get used, for spinning down in large volumes of fluid and the sound it made while spinning up and when it reached speed were, without exaggeration, identical to the sound in the Half Life test chamber just prior to things going FUBAR.

VERY strange feeling indeed.
The fact that I was performing menial tasks and half day-dreaming probably contributed too.

faetal on 19/3/2012 at 13:32

Badum tish.

demagogue on 19/3/2012 at 21:07

This reminds me a little of how I imagine the secret Iranian enrichment centrifuges thing went down. Starts as typical day, Farrokh starts up the centrifuges, gets his coffee, hmm that's an odd reading ... probably nothing, suddenly all hell breaks loose, 100s of centrifuges spin themselves off their hinges and sensationally shatter themselves to pieces, radioactive goo flies everywhere, a portal is opened to Xen and Zionist aliens burst through annihilating everyone in the compound while Farrokh watches helplessly through the window, coffee still in his hand. The aliens, content with their destruction return through the portal with the last one giving a final screw you finger parting shot. Farrokh surveys the destruction and sits back down with his coffee, looks down and shakes his head with a sigh. How am I going to explain this to the shift manager?

Trance on 20/3/2012 at 02:34

Quote Posted by demagogue

This reminds me a little of how I imagine the secret Iranian enrichment centrifuges thing went down. Starts as typical day, Farrokh starts up the centrifuges, gets his coffee, hmm that's an odd reading ... probably nothing, suddenly all hell breaks loose, 100s of centrifuges spin themselves off their hinges and sensationally shatter themselves to pieces, radioactive goo flies everywhere, a portal is opened to Xen and Zionist aliens burst through annihilating everyone in the compound while Farrokh watches helplessly through the window, coffee still in his hand. The aliens, content with their destruction return through the portal with the last one giving a final screw you finger parting shot. Farrokh surveys the destruction and sits back down with his coffee, looks down and shakes his head with a sigh. How am I going to explain this to the shift manager?

We don't need to hear all this. We're highly trained professionals.

demagogue on 20/3/2012 at 04:46

Quote Posted by Trance

We don't need to hear all this. We're highly trained professionals.

In case you missed the story, of course the reason the Iranian enrichment centrifuges went haywire wasn't because of incompetence but because they'd been bugged by a worm virus developed by Israeli & American cyberwar gurus that intentionally kept itself hidden and destroyed them on cue. I wasn't trying to imply poor hapless Farrokh had done anything wrong ... aside from working on a nuclear weapons program for a known state sponsor of terrorism at least.