It's from the Jurassic Park novel. Spoiler: It kinda goes downhill from there (both the situation and the franchise).

They get eaten by velociraptors.

In context, this makes sense.

The load bearing laptop dies and crashes the entire internet and everyone dies. The end.

The book is even better than the movie, don't rob yourself of a great time.

Their system was set up such that when they rebooted the whole thing (which they needed to do to get out of the lockout Nerdy used, intending to steal the DNA samples, deliver them to his contact at the docks, then return without anyone realizing what had happened), it would first start up only using AUX power. Then they just needed to run a command to have the system switch to main power.

But they forgot because the whole island was a well-polished shit that they were barely holding together and hadn't ever trained on what to do after a reset.

After this scene, the power goes out through the whole park and to restore it, someone needs to go to the power station and manually activate the mechanism that closes the breaker to bring main power back on.

In the movie, IIRC they just skipped straight to the "start the power up manually in the power station", which Ellie does after Arnold fails to do so or return.

The book had a better system overall (where main power could have been turned on from the control room, or safely in the bunker if they had remembered it before the fences failed) and the issue was with a lack of experience with that system. The movie's version was simpler but a stupid system for a park full of dangerous predators because it didn't have a fail safe at all. Plus that stupid 3d interface that apparently Lex knew and was thus able to figure how to enable secondary systems when all of that would be custom software running on the OS.

This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:

1. There's a secret science place where science happens
2. At event causes people not normally associated with the secret science place to have to go to the secret science place
3. The secret science at the secret science place goes horribly wrong
4. The secret science place blows up in the end

That formula doesn't really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.

Is that when the T-rex brings Dr. Ellie Sattler to a quivering orgasm?

Heh, that's happened a lot since our org updated to Win11. Updates in the middle of the day (despite IT assuring us those only install after hours 🙄) and people just randomly drop from meetings as their PCs reboot. Project manager almost called shenanigans on that until it happened to her mid-meeting.

Today (well, yesterday now), mine was just "Preparing to hibernate due to low battery" and I was like "wait, what?!" and was frantically making sure everything got saved (this old workhorse doesn't always want to resume from hibernate). Turns out I had the cord plugged into the laptop but didn't plug it into the outlet

I think Nedry's death in the book is that for me. The movie version is practically G-rated compared to how it went down in the novel.

I only read the book as an adult on vacation. Thing that stood out to me was the very first scene and going "Oh! Yeah, probably good they didn't put that in the movie."

Hammond also gets a very different ending in the book.