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Bruce Perens: The Day I Blundered Into the Nuclear Facility

Bruce Perens writes "I found myself alone in a room, in front of a deep square or rectangular pool of impressively clear, still water. There was a pile of material at the bottom of the pool, and a blue glow of Cherenkov radiation in the water around it. To this day, I can't explain how an unsupervised kid could ever have gotten in there."

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  1. This is it! by binarylarry · · Score: 3, Funny

    This explains Bruce's Open Source super powers.

    It's like peter parker but instead of a spider, its a pool of radioactive cherenkov radiation.

    I knew it!

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    1. Re:This is it! by binarylarry · · Score: 1, Funny

      Im sorry I'm not up on all the latest hiphop slang you kids use these days.

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  2. A: Blundering into a nuclear facility by slew · · Score: 4, Funny
    1. Re:A: Blundering into a nuclear facility by fustakrakich · · Score: 4, Funny

      Q: What do Bruce Perens and an 82-year old nun have in common?

      Both are creatures of habit?

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    2. Re:A: Blundering into a nuclear facility by binarylarry · · Score: 3, Funny

      Both are virgins, of course.

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    3. Re:A: Blundering into a nuclear facility by plover · · Score: 4, Funny

      Q: What do Bruce Perens and an 82-year old nun have in common?

      Both are creatures of habit?

      You can kiss a nun once or twice, but don't get into the habit.

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      John
  3. Re:So... I read the article. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    TL;DR

  4. This sounds very improbable by GoodNewsJimDotCom · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only way this could happen is if the guy in sector 7g was grossly incompetent.

  5. Description reminds me of... by hotdiggity · · Score: 3, Funny
    You find yourself alone in a room, in front of a deep square or rectangular pool of impressively clear, still water.

    There is a pile of material at the bottom of the pool, and a blue glow of Cherenkov radiation in the water around it.

    > TAKE PILE

    You cannot take that item.

    > INVENTORY

    You have:

    • a rope
    • a watch
    • non-radiation-resisting clothes

    > GO NORTH

    You cannot go that way.

    > JUMP IN POOL

    Sorry, I don't know what you mean.

    > ENTER POOL

    You have jumped into the pool.

    You have died from radiation poisoning.

  6. Re:So... I read the article. by cvtan · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought it was part of the dialog from Zork.
    "You have entered a dark passage. If it weren't for the glow from Cherenkov radiation, you might be eaten by a grue."

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  7. Re:So... I read the article. by F34nor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have you played text Pac-Man? "You are in a hallway, there are floating balls at waist height to the east and west, in the distance your hear what you think are ghosts."

  8. Re:So... I read the article. by quenda · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess cancer is kind of like a super power.

    or so Lance Armstrong would like us to believe.

  9. Re:So... I read the article. by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that it?

    No, in some countries the second part is censored. You might not have discovered how he later discovered how he had amazing powers over women and his incredible steamy sex sessions. I will never forget those pictures.

  10. Re:So... I read the article. by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is they would rub you down with lotion

    Doesn't sound like the sort of place they should let children into.

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  11. Re:So... I read the article. by rmstar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does Pac-Man have a waist?

    In the same way most americans have one (sorry, couldn't resist).

  12. Re:So... I read the article. by damien_kane · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is they would rub you down with lotion

    Doesn't sound like the sort of place they should let children into.

    It's better than giving them the hose, again