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

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.