Totally Safe Science, Tuesday, May 16, 2023

[meepmeepmeep]

Today Beaker was at the front of the lab in his lab coat, glancing suspiciously at a dozen small wastebaskets full of paper.

"Oh it's much improved, Beaky," a voice was saying through the speakerphone. "Fireproof paper! Your documents will never be in peril again!"

Beaker meeped dubiously, then disconnected the call and passed out one basket to each victim student.

"Meep meep meep meep meep mee!" he said, holding up a small flamethower, then pointing to the flamethrowers on each person's station. "Meep meep meep meep mee!"

He ignited his. "Mee, mee, meep!"

And then he tried to light the paper in his wastebasket.

Well.

At least the fire suppression system in this room was incredibly robust? Maybe some of Dr. Bunson's experimental paper didn't catch fire?

But it's Beaker's class, so the probability of you leaving covered in foam are higher than your normal class...

Comments

Sign in 5/16

[meepmeepmeep]

Like you're about to be covered in fire-suppressant foam.

Re: Sign in 5/16

[jedigrammarians]

Aphra

Re: Sign in 5/16

[what_big_teeth]

Eleanor Zarrin

Re: Sign in 5/16

[no_missing_piece]

Beta

Re: Sign in 5/16

[designateddadfriend]

Travis Montgomery

Re: Sign in 5/16

[but_mostly_america]

Sam Eagle

Re: Sign in 5/16

[napking]

Gray

Re: Sign in 5/16

[what_the_shock]

Miguel O'Hara

Listen to the lecture!

[meepmeepmeep]

Await the inevitable.

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[no_missing_piece]

Given last week's class results, Beta was willing to hazard a less-educated-than-she'd-prefer guess that the 'fireproof' paper would not live up to its name.

Something like that would be useful, though, given all the fire-spitting aggressive apex machines that HEPHAESTUS liked to churn out, so she ended up spending the rest of the lecture trying to figure out how to formulate a fireproof treatment with the kinds of materials they had access to at home.

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[designateddadfriend]

By "fire suppression system", did the narrative mean Travis? Because Travis was definitely here. In turnouts.

With a fire extinguisher he was beginning to think was not a large enough fire extinguisher.

"Someone's doing this on purpose now, aren't they," he said to no one in particular, as the flamethrowers were passed out. "Does this place even have a fire code?"

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[what_the_shock]

"Don't think it was designed for Beaker."

Was Miguel eating popcorn? Yep.

Experiment!

[meepmeepmeep]

Maybe your paper didn't catch fire when you try to ignite it? Beaker's did because that's just how his life was.

Re: Experiment!

[what_big_teeth]

Eleanor's paper also caught on fire when she tried to ignite it. Because that was, of course, also how her life was and she just sort of sighed in a resigned sort of way and wondered if she should actually enlist in someone else to help her extinguish it, before she just wound up making it worse, like she did with everything...

Re: Experiment!

[meepmeepmeep]

And here came foam from the ceiling! Lucky you!

Re: Experiment!

[but_mostly_america]

"Absolutely not," Sam declared. "I refuse."

His refusal to touch the flamethrower was not going to protect him from being covered in foam, was it?

Re: Experiment!

[meepmeepmeep]

Oh, 100 percent. It's like Sam knew how Muppet physics worked!

Here comes the foam now, Sam. Enjoy that.

Re: Experiment!

[but_mostly_america]

How did a creature made of felt sigh so heavily? That was a question for the ages.

The yelling that immediately followed was far more understandable. As was the very angry flapping of Sam's wings as he flung foam about the room.

Talk to Beaker!

[meepmeepmeep]

Or to the mound of foam that's meeping, at least.

Re: Talk to Beaker!

[designateddadfriend]

"Let me see that phone," Travis said. "I need to make sure your friend there understands that 'flammable' and 'inflammable' are the same thing."

Re: Talk to Beaker!

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep," said the foam as Beaker's hand extended with the phone in it.

OOC

[meepmeepmeep]

I love his chaos.