[HN Gopher] Scram Switch
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       Scram Switch
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-03-30 11:42 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | evo_9 wrote:
       | Scram is actually an acronym: - Start - Cutting - Right - Away -
       | Man
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       | Basically it was how they shut-down nuclear reactors by cutting a
       | rope that would drop the controls rods into the reactor.
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       | Side-note: I know this because I played an Atari 800 game called
       | SCRAM growing up. It was pretty good!
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       | Also reminds me of SNAFU - Situation Normal All Fucked Up.
        
         | LukeShu wrote:
         | That acronym of SCRAM also appears to be a myth.
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         | https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2016/02/18/refresh-putti...
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         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram#Etymology
        
       | iandinwoodie wrote:
       | > In general, this is not something you frob lightly
        
       | ddevault wrote:
       | 9front offers the "scram" command to immediately power off the
       | machine, likely making your filesystem grumpy.
        
       | mauvehaus wrote:
       | Fortunately, thanks to existence of a Wikipedia article, we don't
       | have to take ESR's word for the etymology of the word. The
       | article is neutral in asserting that Fermi coined the acronym,
       | but does suggest that the usage derived from the existing usage
       | of scram, meaning to GTFO with all due expediency. Other possible
       | expansions are posited to be backronyms:
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       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram
        
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