Cupid Stunt
As kids we used to doss around the canel and the factories nearby. One sunday, whilst arsing about dropping about 20 feet into a sand hopper, which was stupid enough in itself, my mate dares me to press this green electric button on a switchbox, so sure enough I do. Whatever the switch worked, started buzzing but nothing seemed to be moving. However, the buzzing got louder and louder and crapping ourselves, we legged it big time. We managed to get about 200 yards away when the entire building exploded; big orange flames and black smoke just like the movies. We ran another 2 miles laughing our cocks off to get away from this minor armageddon. However, ever since, I've been very reluctant to press green buttons......
(Mrs B Coathanger Has anyone seen my last marble?, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 2:54, 17 replies)

I'm sorry
I don't buy it.
A green button would not have such consequences... a red one maybe. and it certainly would have had a caution sign around it...

that is, unless it was the 50's
(Bluffboy South Africa! World Champions!!!, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 8:41, closed)

meh
I dunno, if a transformer blew up, the green button could normally supply power to the building, but in this case went to a dodgy transformer
(manbear84, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 9:37, closed)

Our photoresist spinners
have a red button to start and green to stop. However, because they're in the yellow light photolith area of the cleanroom, you can't really tell either colour!

(Apologies to all but the Resident Loon, who's probably the only person on here who will have any clue WTF this is all about.)
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 9:40, closed)

barry
are you seeing the boys on the snowhere else tour?
( insignificantsnivellinglittleturd I Like Peas, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 11:49, closed)

K2k6
Sadly, I know all too well what you are on about. The joys of SU 8!
(danlondonny, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 12:25, closed)

Hahahahahah!
Yes, I know about the yellow lights in the Litho area! Whenever I have to go in there I come out to a blue world. Ever brought a red Bic pen in there? It looks Barbie pink!
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 6 Nov 2007, 12:26, closed)

Schrödinger's photoresist
Yes, your colour perception goes to hell in yellow light. Especially when you come out into the "real" world again, as TRL says. Which begs the question - what is the real colour of photoresist? Because it changes chemically when exposed to UV (and to a lesser extent, the blue end of white light), it's not really possible to say for sure!

The philosophical things we discuss while doing photolithography....
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 12:44, closed)

Actually
there was some talk around here a while back of going to X-ray to expose the photoresist, as its shorter wavelength would allow us to shrink our technology even farther. The best I've heard of to date is IBM doing 45 nm- I think we're doing 65 at this point.

If they do that, then they can do away with the piss-yellow lighting in there, and people can stop wearing those stupid looking blue tinted glasses...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 6 Nov 2007, 12:49, closed)

Oi!
I understand you perfectly K2K6, I've just de-bunny suited this very moment from our delightful cleanroom! Actually the red button to start and green to stop is what we have on the hutch door at the synchotron, I think on the basis that red closes the door, which is a bad thing if you're still inside...
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 13:51, closed)

Sorry Rakky
I forgot you were a scientist too. Although in my defence, as you are a chemist, I would have assumed it unlikely you'd be particularly familiar with semiconductor processing!

But I stand corrected.

_{[apologises meekly]}

Remind me not to press your red button... :-)
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 14:03, closed)

I dare Rakky
to make a cleanroom-safe pair of ears and fluffy tail for her bunny suit.

(As mine is orange, it would just look weird.)
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 6 Nov 2007, 14:06, closed)

I second that
Just as well I'm not doing that though - I'd look like Bugs Bunny, as my cleanroom suit is grey.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 14:31, closed)

Damn, you get grey ones?
We only have blue ones for Maintenance, orange ones for Facilities and everyone else wears white. Our place looks like it's been overrun by Casper the Friendly Ghost.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 6 Nov 2007, 14:37, closed)

Ah,
I do microfluidics you see... Much cleanroom fun.

The bunny ears is a great idea. And a tail. And a look of total blithe innocence when my boss comes in and looks at me (not for the first time) like I've gone a bit mad.

It's the cleanroom hats I like. And the booties...
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 15:01, closed)

Remember, you're British.
You're expected to be a bit mad. It comes with the accent.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 6 Nov 2007, 15:13, closed)

Grey suits
Yup, mine are a nice neutral grey, wiith my name on and everything. We were allowed to choose our colours, this being a university research group and not an industrial plant.

One of my colleagues at the time chose bright yellow. He's 6'4" tall, and he looked like a very large banana.

But as you say, we Brits are slighly mad.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 15:37, closed)

Brits are not always mad...
...just the more interesting ones are.

But thanks to the success of Monty Python over here, somone with a British accent- particularly the sort John Cleese has- is often assumed to be a bit daft.

EDIT: I feel the need to add that today, when I'm wearing a nice warm flannel shirt and fairly snug jeans, I got sent into the FAB to do as-builts on the utilities under CMP- which meant that I had to get in my bunny suit with a Tyvek suit over it, pull up a tile on the raised floor and crawl through a maze of piping that was only about 12" apart in places. Result: I'm now hot, sweaty and bruised all over, and my right elbow may never work the same again. GAH!
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 6 Nov 2007, 15:41, closed)