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GEExCEE

I was thinking... Do you think it weould be possible to do the vaporize thr city's water supply thing ljke in Batman Begins but instead of crazy poison it's weed? How much weed do you think you would need? Let me know if you can. Its for a friend

# ? Oct 28, 2015 19:33

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alnilam

wee'd isn't water soluble

# ? Oct 28, 2015 19:34

alnilam

Hmm can methane hold thc though.... lotta cities have natural gas lines throughout...

# ? Oct 28, 2015 19:34

Scaly Haylie

first you'd have to replace all of gotham's water with butter

# ? Oct 28, 2015 19:41

Pot Smoke Phoenix: Smoke 'em if you gottem!

Lizard Wizard posted:

first you'd have to replace all of gotham's water with butter

you could use sewer grease instead to bind the THC to... every time someone cleans a greasy dish in the sink it ends up in the sewers floating around waiting for an evil-doer to vaporize it and get Gothamites all highed up

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# ? Oct 28, 2015 19:58

Admiral_eX_laX: Historically Inaccurate

imagine a weed bomb...like, you know. Like those bombs you use for flea infestations? But bigger. and weed.

# ? Oct 28, 2015 20:16

GEExCEE

alnilam posted:

wee'd isn't water soluble

neither is poison, but they made it work in the movie

# ? Oct 28, 2015 20:21

pogi

I was a science writer

# ? Oct 28, 2015 20:22

pogi

A byob scientist should let me interview them for practice

# ? Oct 28, 2015 20:22

DOPE FIEND KILLA G

what kinda poison we talking here? if we mean the band then no they aren't

# ? Oct 28, 2015 20:23

Chill la Chill: Don't lose your gay

pogi posted:

I was a science writer

what kind of science did you write about

Apparently I'm #1 Kotori fan

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# ? Oct 28, 2015 20:24

pogi

Chill la Chill posted:

what kind of science did you write about

Climate change

FYI they think we're hosed

# ? Oct 28, 2015 20:25

DOPE FIEND KILLA G

would releasing an incredibly large amount of weed smoke into the atmosphere fix climate change??? i mwan, worth a shot huh worstnthing that'll happen is we'll all get incredibly high. "Oh no I've gotten way to high on this mad dankness!!! this SUCKS!!" said nobody ever

# ? Oct 28, 2015 20:30

Admiral_eX_laX: Historically Inaccurate

DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:

would releasing an incredibly large amount of weed smoke into the atmosphere fix climate change??? i mwan, worth a shot huh worstnthing that'll happen is we'll all get incredibly high. "Oh no I've gotten way to high on this mad dankness!!! this SUCKS!!" said nobody ever

Global Chilling

# ? Oct 28, 2015 20:32

Chill la Chill: Don't lose your gay

pogi posted:

Climate change

FYI they think we're hosed

yeah it sucks, it's a big topic in our environmental econ class and the prof p much agrees cuz ~politics~

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# ? Oct 28, 2015 20:33

Lil Cunty

DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:

would releasing an incredibly large amount of weed smoke into the atmosphere fix climate change??? i mwan, worth a shot huh worstnthing that'll happen is we'll all get incredibly high. "Oh no I've gotten way to high on this mad dankness!!! this SUCKS!!" said nobody ever

I actually said that right before a court hearing once

still had my jail time commuted to community service :smuggo:

ty crap

ty landy

# ? Oct 28, 2015 20:38

FluffieDuckie

I'm going to step outside and do my part to cure global warming.

Who's with me?

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# ? Oct 29, 2015 03:59

HUSKY DILF: aggressively chill

i haven't farted for two weeks so my methane wont' make the earth get hot

# ? Oct 29, 2015 04:36

dogdisaster: by Lowtax

HUSKY DILF posted:

i haven't farted for two weeks so my methane wont' make the earth get hot

i've been covering for you, i just didn't want to say anythiing

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# ? Oct 29, 2015 04:53

Piso Mojado

Admiral_eX_laX posted:

Global Chilling

# ? Oct 29, 2015 05:06

Piso Mojado

if we're being serious here, then no, you probably can't instaneously vaporize an entire city's water supply like in the movie, Batman Begins, even without weed.

however, it is plausible that someone could fill up a warhead and detonate it in a major city, like in the movie Sum Of All Fears. but instead of a nuclear payload, fill it with dank nugs.

# ? Oct 29, 2015 05:20

Bwee

hello

# ? Oct 29, 2015 05:25

FluffieDuckie

Bwee posted:

hello

Hi bwee

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# ? Oct 29, 2015 05:26

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

Bwee posted:

hello

# ? Oct 29, 2015 05:29

joke_explainer

There's about 38 million cubic meters of water in the Portland, OR reservoir system. It takes about 4186 joules of energy to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 C. Conveniently, 38 million cubic meters is 38 billion kilograms of water. Let's assume room temperature, 20 celsius. We want to bring it to 100 celsius. So 334,880 joules per kilogram, so 12,725,440 terrajoules or so. Average commercial nuclear reactor produces about 1,100 megawatts of power, so that's 1,100 megajoules per second, so if we want to vaporize the entire reservoir of a city we'd need 11,568,581 nuclear plants. Or 1/30,222,923,529th of the luminosity of the sun. Or 1/16th the energy released by the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon to ever be detonated. SI units are great.

# ? Oct 29, 2015 05:48

HUSKY DILF: aggressively chill

joke_explainer posted:

There's about 38 million cubic meters of water in the Portland, OR reservoir system. It takes about 4186 joules of energy to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 C. Conveniently, 38 million cubic meters is 38 billion kilograms of water. Let's assume room temperature, 20 celsius. We want to bring it to 100 celsius. So 334,880 joules per kilogram, so 12,725,440 terrajoules or so. Average commercial nuclear reactor produces about 1,100 megawatts of power, so that's 1,100 megajoules per second, so if we want to vaporize the entire reservoir of a city we'd need 11,568,581 nuclear plants. Or 1/30,222,923,529th of the luminosity of the sun. Or 1/16th the energy released by the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon to ever be detonated. SI units are great.

just do the sun thing thats the smallest fraction so easiest

# ? Oct 29, 2015 05:56

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

joke_explainer posted:

There's about 38 million cubic meters of water in the Portland, OR reservoir system. It takes about 4186 joules of energy to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 C. Conveniently, 38 million cubic meters is 38 billion kilograms of water. Let's assume room temperature, 20 celsius. We want to bring it to 100 celsius. So 334,880 joules per kilogram, so 12,725,440 terrajoules or so. Average commercial nuclear reactor produces about 1,100 megawatts of power, so that's 1,100 megajoules per second, so if we want to vaporize the entire reservoir of a city we'd need 11,568,581 nuclear plants. Or 1/30,222,923,529th of the luminosity of the sun. Or 1/16th the energy released by the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon to ever be detonated. SI units are great.

Does anybody have a Tsar Bomba?

Anybody?

# ? Oct 29, 2015 06:35

FreshCutFries

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

Does anybody have a Tsar Bomba?

Anybody?

yeah. i don't want to waste 15/16ths of it though. it was a gift.

# ? Oct 29, 2015 06:38

Goons Are Gifts

Can we get a byob scientists to confirm that the radioactivity would boost the trip into cosmical spheres?

# ? Oct 29, 2015 08:33

alnilam

Nobnob posted:

Can we get a byob scientists to confirm that the radioactivity would boost the trip into cosmical spheres?

in my scientific opinion, radiation + (thing) produces a (thing)-themed superhero, one of whose powers would likely be "cosmic trip"

# ? Oct 29, 2015 13:09

google THIS

Piso Mojado posted:

however, it is plausible that someone could fill up a warhead and detonate it in a major city, like in the movie Sum Of All Fears. but instead of a nuclear payload, fill it with dank nugs.

a nuglear payload

# ? Oct 29, 2015 16:28

mags: I am a congenital optimist.

im a scientician

can i help science

paul_soccer12 posted:

everyone in the idf must die

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# ? Oct 29, 2015 16:30

Spanish Manlove: HAILGAYSATAN

scientist here, what do y'all need sciencing?

# ? Oct 29, 2015 16:33

Scaly Haylie

Piso Mojado posted:

however, it is plausible that someone could fill up a warhead and detonate it in a major city, like in the movie Sum Of All Fears. but instead of a nuclear payload, fill it with dank nugs.

the a-bong

# ? Oct 29, 2015 16:36