They can. A mad scientist can easily make something that absolutely, positively will not explode! Until another mad scientist gets ahold of it with the intention of making it explode.
I don’t know how Ms. Bee didn’t see this coming. I foresee poor performance reviews in her future.
“Until another mad scientist gets ahold of it with the intention of making it explode.”
Or the intention to move it around. Or use it to tell the time. Or stare at it too hard, really.
Pfftt… You think unexplodable is not mad science?! Why…. What I’d give for a gigantic, unexplodable… no, no.. INDESTRUCTIBLE metal lamp-post right now. THINK OF THE HAVOC THAT’D CAUSE!
Indeed. Especially if combines nicely with a teleporter and a little silo-thingies with hydraulics! Teleport it under the middle of a road, wait until someone’s driving down and WHAMMO.
Eh, I can get you an indestructible metal lamp-post, but it’s just the product of absorbing the mystical creative energy in the birth of a universe, not mad science. It also never runs out of fuel, or maybe stays lit without fuel. Is that close enough?
An interesting theory, to be sure. But even if you found a material that emitted tachyons, it would be impossible to build anything out of it, since the tachyons themselves would prevent any kind of cohesion with any other materials.
It seems to me that such a device — if a Mad scientist managed to construct it (since Mad scientists are not limited by the “possible”) — would be quite incapable of unexploding, or even of not exploding, and would rather be quite likely to reexplode… a lot.
“You and Deadly Ordnance” Is this a part of the madly popular “You and…” series:
“You and Toxic Chemicals”
“You and Lethal Microbes”
and the poorly-selling: “You and Nothing”, which sold better under the English title: “So you’ve caused a rift in the fabric of the Universe”
You people are missing the classics…Gilbert Shelton’s Wonder Warthog underground comic proved that Bactine was the ultimate cure-all. After Wonder Warthog had disposed of an evil archvillain by running him through a meatgrinder, the villain came back through the wonders of Bactine…
Violet is clearly not a human, since she didnt realize that humans will blow up anything that they physically can or cant
Nor can she be a robot, since she didnt blow up when she said “unexplodable bomb” to sergio of all people.
I’m beginning to wonder if there’s anyone in the human cast who isn’t latent mad. I mean, think about it: Dr. Lee, Sergio…hell, even Tip is just off-kilter enough that you have to suspect that, given enough provocation, he could hole up in his apartment for three days and emerge with the Mother Of All Therapy Puppets.
Ira, I guess. And the other departments in Annex One, maybe (Chris and Marcie claim to be only “irresponsible,” but Marcie’s fanfic at least violates mundane biology, if not physics.) Konstantin is down with the weirdness, but doesn’t seem like the mad type himself – much like Mell. Still, the core human cast…I have my suspicions.
tune: “Unforgettable,” Irving Gordon, recorded by Nat King Cole, 1951
Unexplodable, the bomb I gave
Unexplodable, but then—shockwave!
There’s a sinister conspiracy
How does my part keep eluding me?
You didn’t punt
You’re brilliant
Unexplodable, you’ve ruined my plan
You’re a dangerous, if clueless, man
All you needed was a manual
To derail my evil plan. You all
Better hope you’re unexplodable, too
To take it to the elemental level (pun intended), Fusion yields energy, fission yields energy, therefore (and there is a curve) a wide range of elements can be either fused or fissioned to release energy. Plastics (which I am sure are ALL OVER St. Charlie) contain many hydrocarbons which can be fused – since the ‘hydro’ in hydrocarbon is HYDROGEN. the perfect fusion fuel (as in highest energy yield per fusion event).
There is no such thing as “unexplodable.” There is only “very difficult to make explode.” I know this for a fact, having witnessed the explosion of a perfectly normal hot dog, given the correct incentive.
Best science fair ever, except for the guy trying to sell hot dogs after that…
Violet should not be worried about unexplodable bomb exploding.
If this is a sinister consipiracy, she should be worried about G.O.D.O.T. working its magic on any messages she’s sending out to her bosses. Especially if she can’t see what the “writing on the wall” is telling them.
I’ve been thinking. How do even make ANYTHING “unexplodable”, much less a bomb? I can make a water bottle, a solid piece of rubber or a cardboard piece blow up. How do you make anything impossible to explode in any way?
Upon further consideration, Sergio is not necessarily capable of making an unexplodable bomb explode. He’s following arbitrary instructions in a place that we know has matter synthesizers. I mean, he may have followed instructions telling him to coat it in rubbing alcohol from the dispenser set to “rubbing alcohol” which is the label for aqueous nitrogen triiodide. After the blow dryer step, it hardly matters what’s under the explosive coating.
So, is this like Dave and the death ray, or is it GODOT mucking around?
Possibly both? @_@
They already know that Sergio can create Mad Scientific devices, so betwee that and the last panel of yesterday’s comic my money is on GODOT.
I expect it’s Godot changing the text of the manual, “Mistborn”-style.
Mistborn!
DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN BALL!
Mad Science—–Unexplodable.
Somehow I don’t think those two concepts can exist together.
They can. A mad scientist can easily make something that absolutely, positively will not explode! Until another mad scientist gets ahold of it with the intention of making it explode.
I don’t know how Ms. Bee didn’t see this coming. I foresee poor performance reviews in her future.
There is only ONE type of reprimand that Anisigma gives out.
“Until another mad scientist gets ahold of it with the intention of making it explode.”
Or the intention to move it around. Or use it to tell the time. Or stare at it too hard, really.
Pfftt… You think unexplodable is not mad science?! Why…. What I’d give for a gigantic, unexplodable… no, no.. INDESTRUCTIBLE metal lamp-post right now. THINK OF THE HAVOC THAT’D CAUSE!
Indeed. Especially if combines nicely with a teleporter and a little silo-thingies with hydraulics! Teleport it under the middle of a road, wait until someone’s driving down and WHAMMO.
Eh, I can get you an indestructible metal lamp-post, but it’s just the product of absorbing the mystical creative energy in the birth of a universe, not mad science. It also never runs out of fuel, or maybe stays lit without fuel. Is that close enough?
It’s easy: Just build a dirty bomb with materials that emit tachyons instead of gamma radiation and the bomb will be quite able to unexplode.
An interesting theory, to be sure. But even if you found a material that emitted tachyons, it would be impossible to build anything out of it, since the tachyons themselves would prevent any kind of cohesion with any other materials.
It seems to me that such a device — if a Mad scientist managed to construct it (since Mad scientists are not limited by the “possible”) — would be quite incapable of unexploding, or even of not exploding, and would rather be quite likely to reexplode… a lot.
“You and Deadly Ordnance” Is this a part of the madly popular “You and…” series:
“You and Toxic Chemicals”
“You and Lethal Microbes”
and the poorly-selling: “You and Nothing”, which sold better under the English title: “So you’ve caused a rift in the fabric of the Universe”
I read it as “Your Deadly Ordnance.”
I think you’re both right, I read it as “Your Deadly Ordinance, and You”.
Is that Bactine request an Oliver Wendell Jones reference?
I’m not sure. But I bet Sergio had a Banana Junior 6000 when he was a kid.
That was my first thought, too! Berke Breathed is totally the reason I snicker a little inside every time I see a bottle of Bactine.
You people are missing the classics…Gilbert Shelton’s Wonder Warthog underground comic proved that Bactine was the ultimate cure-all. After Wonder Warthog had disposed of an evil archvillain by running him through a meatgrinder, the villain came back through the wonders of Bactine…
Yes, but My Big Fat Greek Wedding proved that Windex is the ultimate cure-all.
“pretty well”
Bwaahahaha!
Violet is clearly not a human, since she didnt realize that humans will blow up anything that they physically can or cant
Nor can she be a robot, since she didnt blow up when she said “unexplodable bomb” to sergio of all people.
Well she DID say to make an explotion, she didn’t say HOW.
I bet he just made another one out of a paperclip.
Aaaaaand that corks it. Sergio’s Mad.
I’m beginning to wonder if there’s anyone in the human cast who isn’t latent mad. I mean, think about it: Dr. Lee, Sergio…hell, even Tip is just off-kilter enough that you have to suspect that, given enough provocation, he could hole up in his apartment for three days and emerge with the Mother Of All Therapy Puppets.
Well, that’s the point, isn’t it?
Ira, I guess. And the other departments in Annex One, maybe (Chris and Marcie claim to be only “irresponsible,” but Marcie’s fanfic at least violates mundane biology, if not physics.) Konstantin is down with the weirdness, but doesn’t seem like the mad type himself – much like Mell. Still, the core human cast…I have my suspicions.
[i]Most[/i] fanfic violates mundane biology. That can hardly be considered proof of madness.
tune: “Unforgettable,” Irving Gordon, recorded by Nat King Cole, 1951
Unexplodable, the bomb I gave
Unexplodable, but then—shockwave!
There’s a sinister conspiracy
How does my part keep eluding me?
You didn’t punt
You’re brilliant
Unexplodable, you’ve ruined my plan
You’re a dangerous, if clueless, man
All you needed was a manual
To derail my evil plan. You all
Better hope you’re unexplodable, too
*lol*
never tell the person who’s doing it that it isn’t possible.
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Its been that way for a couple of months i think – there was some big discussions when it first happened.
We had them fixed, and now they’re down again. I’ll get them back up as soon as I can.
To take it to the elemental level (pun intended), Fusion yields energy, fission yields energy, therefore (and there is a curve) a wide range of elements can be either fused or fissioned to release energy. Plastics (which I am sure are ALL OVER St. Charlie) contain many hydrocarbons which can be fused – since the ‘hydro’ in hydrocarbon is HYDROGEN. the perfect fusion fuel (as in highest energy yield per fusion event).
There is no such thing as “unexplodable.” There is only “very difficult to make explode.” I know this for a fact, having witnessed the explosion of a perfectly normal hot dog, given the correct incentive.
Best science fair ever, except for the guy trying to sell hot dogs after that…
Peroxide-nitrate bomb?
Violet should not be worried about unexplodable bomb exploding.
If this is a sinister consipiracy, she should be worried about G.O.D.O.T. working its magic on any messages she’s sending out to her bosses. Especially if she can’t see what the “writing on the wall” is telling them.
Violet can’t see the writing because it’s not actually there, remember? I doubt that GODOT’s pareidolia evocation range can reach Violet’s bosses.
I’ve been thinking. How do even make ANYTHING “unexplodable”, much less a bomb? I can make a water bottle, a solid piece of rubber or a cardboard piece blow up. How do you make anything impossible to explode in any way?
Upon further consideration, Sergio is not necessarily capable of making an unexplodable bomb explode. He’s following arbitrary instructions in a place that we know has matter synthesizers. I mean, he may have followed instructions telling him to coat it in rubbing alcohol from the dispenser set to “rubbing alcohol” which is the label for aqueous nitrogen triiodide. After the blow dryer step, it hardly matters what’s under the explosive coating.