May 27, 2005

Adventures in Headline Writing!

Many nuclear plants lack backup sirens

I didn't realize they had sirens--I would have figured they would have had one of those beepers like garbage trucks have. And second, who knew they could MOVE, much less back up!? I think it would be pretty cool to drive a nuclear plant around the block.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at May 27, 2005 09:09 AM
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If you had only listened to that Navy recruiter back in the day, you could have driven a nuclear power plant all over the PLANET! I did!

We didn't have a backup siren, but we had a lot of cool alarms, including that ah-OOO-gah! ah-OOO-gah! dive thing.

Posted by: skillzy at May 27, 2005 10:37 AM

I'd like to have one of those for my desk.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 27, 2005 10:52 AM

If your computer has speakers, I can arrange that.

Posted by: skillzy at May 27, 2005 11:04 AM

Well, you'll have to talk to the computer guys, because they won't let us have things like that unless they think I need it.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 27, 2005 11:43 AM

Now that they have time on their hands, maybe the Star Trek crew could design the sirens. Just like the ones on the ol' NCC-1701.

Posted by: Alan K. Henderson at May 31, 2005 03:10 AM