Opens a stargate to another dimension.

Does the radio play down there? We have a button like that in the break room and it shuts off the speakers.

no ambient music.

Odds are it is disconnected, and if it isn't then it creates an annoying ass alarm at a nurses station somewhere that will freak them out. Then piss them off cause they can't figure out what it goes to.

Just do it. Beg forgiveness... ask permission, something.

Your avatar + advocating pusing unknown buttons = humor

Wife says I'm an expert in pushing buttons. Fly me down, Hans, we'll have a few drinks and see what happens...

It's like a "DOOM" level.  You have to push the red button then pull the lever within 30 seconds to let the Minotaur out.
Kill him and you get to the next level.

Many years ago, when my buddy and I were barely past immature college student age and we sometimes acted even younger, we went to eat at a college-town restaurant that was located in a converted big old Victorian house...very cool, they had interesting little nooks and crannies to seat people at, and we ended up seated at a small table off a back hallway.

Right above our small table on the wall was a single lightswitch, which we noticed as we looked at the artwork and the general décor around us while waiting on our order. My buddy could not resist, after asking me "what lights do you think this controls?" flipping it off once quickly, then back on. Nothing happened anywhere around us...the hallway stayed lit, and the larger rooms off the hallway that we could see (dens / library / living room / parlor / or whatever in the previous incarnation) all stayed lit. I told him to knock it off, then left to find the ladies' room to freshen up before our food arrived.

I came back just in time to sit back down at our table and see a very large, very angry man in a chef's coat and hat come barreling around the corner and come up to our table at glare accusingly at my buddy and tell him in no uncertain terms to "STOP PLAYING WITH THE LIGHTSWITCH!!" Apparently, my buddy was bored during the few minutes I was gone, and had amused himself by flicking the switch up and down as he stared around the room. (This was long before cell phones, where he could have amused himself playing a game on his phone or whatever.) Apparently, that switch did work whether we thought so or not, and controlled the lights in the kitchen, which had probably resembled a Halloween haunted house with spastic flickering lights with my buddy in charge.

I guess we were lucky the chef did not come out with a cleaver--that guy was seriously pissed! I was mortified. We had to get fast food after we left, because no way was I about to eat anything out of that kitchen after he pulled that stunt. I also did not want to just skip out on our meal. It was embarrassing at the time, but now one of our favorite "we were idiots when we were younger" stories. I still give him the stinkeye when he gets fidgety when we are hanging out in public places, though...he's a bit better, but not by much!


ETA...that was my long-winded way of saying "DON"T DO IT, OP!" No telling what irate being you could summon!

more info in the op but i'll also put here
This is at a hopsital.  This is in an corridor in the basement tunnel that connects two buildings.  It is a very low traffic area and is not near any patient care areas.

Ask the maintenance guy?

Push it while screaming YOLO!!!




If I had to guess, I would say it opens a set of nearby roll up doors or something. Anything more serious and it would be labelled. (I am a health care maintenance mechanic so yeah)

That's a fackin' Trunk Monkey button right there.

or turn something off

Put a label below it that says "Push For Help". Push the button. If you get in trouble, tell them you needed help.

It IS the Ren & Stimpy button!

Just push the damn button already...

Go ahead. You know you want to.

Maybe it releases the Kraken.

Any of the nearby doors lockable electronically?  If so, it could be for when someone needs to exit from such an area they just press the button to get out.

 

When you push it are you getting fries or tots?

Usually being the operative word there. One of our techs hit an unlabeled, uncovered one because he thought it was an RTE button.  That did NOT go over very well......

"Try to understand, this a high voltage laser containment system. Simply turning it off would be like dropping a bomb on the city"

there is a fire door that is propped open 24/7 that is about 8 feet to the left ouf of frame.  but as said earlier, the button is very high up on the wall I could propbably press it as i am tall.  anyone shorter than 5'10 or 6 foot or so would have issues getting to it with out a step stool or something.  

so i dont think it is an RTE button.

Do non hospital employees have access to said area?

it's an "Open the Border" button, oh wait, someone already pressed that button.

It's taunting you, looking down on you, it's better than you.

Salt-N-Pepa - Push It: http://youtu.be/vCadcBR95oU

I don't care what they say about you man, that was great!



 

Looks like a kill switch for an industrial device like a fan or a milling machine.

Yeah, we have an emergency stop like that to shut the boilers down from outside the boiler room itself in an adjoining office in case of a gas leak or something, but as you said, it is covered and labelled as an E-Stop. Something just out in the open like that is a door controller most likely.

it is not a controlled access area, but is in a part of the hospital WAY the heck away from patient care areas.  so it would be exceedingly rare for a pt to be in this part of the building.

Another safe thread!  Fuck it.  In!

Prepare ur anus......

I've been watching their videos non-stop since about noon.

 

It is against Joint Commission standards to leave doors like that propped open. And fire code for that matter. Just saying They can be magnetically held open but release if the fire system activates, but not "propped" open like with a door jam or something.

I worked in an amusement park maintenance shop as the oiler, filter changer and broomsman.  We serviced park vehicles as well as the park rides. The park had a propane fired steam engine train in which the old steam whistle was pulled off and replaced with a deeper toned whistle.  Somehow the old steam whistle ended up attached to the shop's one inch 180psi air line with an inline solenoid and mounted on top of a rafter directly above a hallway.  Of course, there was an unmarked red button sticking out of the wall of the hallway just below that rafter.  Later, a list of names with dates was started on the wall to memorialize people who pushed the button.  You would think a list of names in which some of the names have the added notations of "crapped" and "peed" would prevent people from pushing the button.

it closes automatically in a fire emergency.

Ok then

it converts all the 110 outlets to 220     .

Don't say things like that. He/she could be a nurse and they actually will believe something like that!

Where does the conduit go?

"Push the button, Frank!"

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straight up into the drop tile ceiling.

Like this?

Get a ladder!

The fire door should not be propped open BTW, any chance it is held by a magnet?