Will anybody under 30 get this joke? When you take a picture with your phone, why would you need a darkroom? What is she washing and hanging up with clothes pins?
The original Butterfly Effect was a weakness of a climate model having too few data points. i.e. if I make a climate model and have only 100 places where I collect data, each of those 100 points has a huge effect on the model. Hence a butterfly flapping at a collection point makes the model go haywire and extreme, and predict a huge storm.
Since then, chaos theory does seem to show small changes in a system sometimes have huge real consequences. And the Butterfly Effect seems to be accepted by the public as real, and not as a flaw in climate modeling.
What kind of device is that? Something from the year Y2K?