Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. - Douglas Adams

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was."

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.