1st February 2007, 2:49 AM
Here's the thinking.
TERROR ALERT ORANGE (I don't even know what the current "color" is)
Some person is walking along, sees the thing, and is a typical "ya never know" idiot. "Gee, that looks odd. Kinda creepy, oh well... Heh, they could probably make a bomb out of that. Wait, what if they did? Nah... it doesn't look like.... but it wouldn't. It might be a bomb, I don't know it's NOT! It probably is! I have to call it in! I can't take that chance!"
TERROR ALERT ORANGE (I don't even know what the current "color" is)
Some person is walking along, sees the thing, and is a typical "ya never know" idiot. "Gee, that looks odd. Kinda creepy, oh well... Heh, they could probably make a bomb out of that. Wait, what if they did? Nah... it doesn't look like.... but it wouldn't. It might be a bomb, I don't know it's NOT! It probably is! I have to call it in! I can't take that chance!"
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)