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Oct. 29th, 2012 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothI was writing a sequence where Twilight Sparkle was doing chemistry, and the danger involved seemed a little contrived. So I decided to do the research (on wikipedia).
...turns out, I was understating it. The actual process involves using four different kinds of acid, two kinds of poison, and one extremely dangerous explosive compound. To make fertilizer. That you then put on plants. What idiot came up with this stuff? And how is he still ALIVE?
Well, okay, he's not, but he didn't die from blowing himself up with this craziness and he really should have.
...turns out, I was understating it. The actual process involves using four different kinds of acid, two kinds of poison, and one extremely dangerous explosive compound. To make fertilizer. That you then put on plants. What idiot came up with this stuff? And how is he still ALIVE?
Well, okay, he's not, but he didn't die from blowing himself up with this craziness and he really should have.
