h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

no but there is a nice soft red sofa!

I think the question about the button being red is important. Red is a sign of danger, warning or alert. A blue button would fail to have the same effect.

what if it was pink?

DD would probably press it.

Pink is not a scary colour

Is red = danger universal (i.e. inate) or cultural (i.e. learned)? And should this actually be a seperate thread? D'oh, too late...

Well if the door is locked behind me and there's nothing there to do except play with the button then I'll just keep pressing it until something interesting happens. And the "do not press this button again" would just inspire me to find out what other messages the software author had written into the program.

I thought it was C3PO aiming a gun at me. Just goes to show - our nerves are all on edge in this room.

No I dont think that i would press the button either. Supposing i recovered from the shock of suddenly appering in a room, containing only a button that said dont press. Then if i adjusted, id just wait for a while until spontaneously i re appeared on the out side again. any way due to the uncertainty principle, its possible that you could get out of the room without needing doors. Perhaps even by making an improbability generator.

Well thank you everyone for your comments - I will be posting another moral dilemma on Friday and would appreciate your views?

Why not set up an entry- Moral Dillemma of the Week?

That is exactly what I am planning! But to keep it in line with modern pop culture it will probably end up being called Ethics uncovered or something!

*ducks for cover*

Nooo not ethics... omg the amount of people doing ethics exams around me in the last few weeks is giving me a phobia of the word...

did you press or not press the button yet?

yes I did!

And quite obviously, you're still alive and ticking.

Or perhaps, your discorporated molecules are still working together in their newly-liberated form. Maybe *all* our discorporated molecules are doing this, and our atomised brains are automatically re-ordering this new information into the illusion of "nothing happening" to stop us all from going insane...

Actually it was very interesting because nothing happened in the room itself but back in the Editorial room Crusader exploded!

Thats a shame...

Yes but we are in the process of putting him back together again
*Shouts over shoulder "No save that bit Peta - I am sure that it is something important"*

Good. I'm sure you should talk to the h2g2 medical team too, get them to help...

As soon as he is back together again we will let you know!

Crusader exploded? How terribly embarrassing! (For him, naturally)

After you've cobbled him back together, what do you think you'll do with the leftover bits? (And there usually are)