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Baraka_Guru · 07-02-2010, 08:12 PM

Its meaning changes over time. I think much of it started in the heydays of science fiction and the idea of computing machines with all kinds of push-buttons.

Whenever I think of "The Red Button" in a wide sense, I think of the launching of nuclear warheads.

In a practical sense? Yeah, I think of emergency stops in heavy machinery.

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Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	Its meaning changes over time. I think much of it started in the heydays of science fiction and the idea of computing machines with all kinds of push-buttons. Whenever I think of "The Red Button" in a wide sense, I think of the launching of nuclear warheads. In a practical sense? Yeah, I think of emergency stops in heavy machinery. __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot