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Pimientito -> Shaken....but not stirred (Sep. 19 2007 12:48:05)
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I as watching the classic Bond movie, Dr. No the other day which still stands up as a great film (mainly due to Ursula Andress)
However there were a couple of points about the ending which sprung to mind.
Having been trapped in Dr. Nos high security lair, Bond escapes his solid steel cell, over rides the solid copper doors with no handles, survives the electric security grills on the air vents and breaks into the Nuclear reactor room which is cunningly guarded by .... a pair of wooden kitchen swing doors.
Once inside the reactor, safely protected by an inflatable plastic suit, he attempts to scupper Dr No's plans by exceeding the danger level on the reactor. This he does by turning a large steering wheel to the right until power exceed a large red "danger level" arrow. He is nearly thwarted when one of the workers attempts to hit the large red "emergency stop" button.
After causing a core meltdown everyone runs away unscathed when the "abandon area" board lights up in the reactor room.
Now call me Naive but wouldn't modern nuclear accidents be easily avoided if there were emergency stop buttons and abandon area boards fitted as standard in nuclear power plants.
It also led to me thinking about why someone fitted a "life forms terminated" button to the computor on the spaceship in 2001. Why would anyone do that? Maybe we could see computors with "losing your data" lights fitted or DVD players with "stop inexplicably" and "failing to load" warnings...
....anyway this is the off topic section
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