Tales of the Belt, Part 11: Tuyani

by | Sep 27, 2021 | Entertainment, Fiction | 193 comments

Tuyani

We found and occupied the Anomaly nearly 1k local cycles ago, using the station for research on the third Planet, we found out they called it Earth. At first we were discrete, only gathering and mating with close genetics, and soon we discovered that they adapted to our dNA so well they became giants of their species. As time went on they grew capable of terrible things, but we could only back off as they progressed, that was our Law, soon they used Nukes and developed rudimentary spacecraft, so we retreated to the Anomaly.

 

The Tuyani

We are an explorer race, and having developed the Weapon, we could be who we chose to be, with no restraints, we developed many of the worlds you see and visit today. It wasn’t always easy, we lost more than a few ships compliments, but the pay off in knowledge and trade is worth it to us. Which brings us to this lonely arm of the galaxy, a true backwater, Sol system has some interesting features, The water World of Earth, the floating cities of Jupiter, and of course our investigation into who destroyed planet 5 and why? We were determined to find out.

In the last 200 cycles the humans had moved into the asteroid belt, and their mining and extraction had destroyed critical evidence, but we could only watch, bound by our Law. At first we saw a small probe, rudimentary, but capable of spectrographic analysis, and we knew it was only a matter of time before we had guests. Sure enough, soon we detected 2 ships on slightly different courses burning directly at us, at what for them was a high rate of speed, maybe 3 days out.

 

The Anomaly

It wasn’t much really, a 3 Kilometer obloid sphere, in what was known as the Oort cloud, and when we arrived we noticed higher than normal gravity, and after analysis we determined it was 99.9 percent Titanium. Right then we knew it was Created by Someone, but who? The anomaly did provide a stable orbit, so it was convenient to our purpose, the study of Earth. Now with the Human ship approaching we had decisions to make, meet and greet, or hide under cloak? We chose to break protocol and sat, waiting to meet our studies, the Time had come.

 

to be continued…

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Yusef drives a Kia

Yusef drives a Kia

Punctually illiterate But never late

193 Comments

  1. Hyperion

    Off to the Oort cloud again. Watch out, space MILFs!

    • Ownbestenemy

      What is your deal with the Oort cloud?

      • Hyperion

        You have to ask Yusef, I believe he is Lord of the Oort Cloud and Space Milf thighs…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        And Sir Ohsis of the Liver! Good Sir!
        Huzzah!

    • blackjack

      Do those count as “close genetics”?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Only missing one thing Q,

      • Ownbestenemy

        A firey curtain?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        red and firey, yes…..

      • Ownbestenemy

        Maybe it is genetics but yeah…the reds are a heart stopper for me

      • MikeS

        I’m so stupid for redheads I think Jen Psaki is attractive.

        There. I said it.

      • rhywun

        She is not unattractive. The stupid things they make her say, though… holy crap.

      • Hyperion

        If you’re into hair plugs…

      • Fourscore

        Proves your NoDak bonafides.

      • hayeksplosives

        It’s not so much the red itself; it’s an indicator of fiery Gaelic roots..

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        ^this, so much this,

      • Ownbestenemy

        Queen Boudica was no joke and probably the genesis of it all.

      • rhywun

        My red-headed mom was always jokingly disappointed to birth four blond boys, but eventually delighted to get two fire-red grandkids.

      • DEG

        #metoo

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        I’m team red as well

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        yes,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Oh to be a young Man…..
        /Nah

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Oh yes

  2. blackjack

    I’m not exactly pedantic, but

    a 3 Kilometer obloid sphere

    this seems like an oxymoron. Like it would have to be one or the other.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      There is a reason, all will be revealed,

      • Hyperion

        After the Trumpets and before the Vials, or in between, or…

    • Hyperion

      Blackjack, uuhhhwhattttrrruuudoineeeerrreee?

      Just get on the Oort Express, make a right at the Obloid Sphere, right by the Coffee Bean, and never come back!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        That’s what I’m talking about!
        /Wait for the variable gravity Bitches!

      • Hyperion

        Obloid Spheres, Gravity Bitches, and Tall Cans!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Come by every Monday night! I’ve got it all!

      • Hyperion

        I’ll swing by the Ohio and pick up Tres Cool on my way! They’re going to have to close down MI for at least a few days…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        We could get in trouble, Let’s do it!

      • Hyperion

        Whitman will be mad. What you figure we can get for her out in the Oort?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Spaced, as it should be,

  3. Ownbestenemy

    Alright. Fun stuff

  4. blackjack

    Hey, Yusef! I went and skated another full pipe, this one up by lake Casitas. It was a little bit too small to really get into. Maybe 10 feet or so. The transition gets kinda sharp when they’re that small and everything happens way too fast. My kid got a couple of decent runs, because he’s a foot and a half shorter than me. I felt like my head was gonna hit the top. Shame, because the hike was a lot easier and the terrain much nicer. It was fun despite that.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Tight pipes are a bitch, have you been to Upland? that’s a real pipe, great design and flow by my buddy Salba, and if you get out that far Fontana #1 and Chino#2 are great parks as well.

  5. DEG

    Ooo…. aliens. Interesting.

    Borrowing from “Gateway” and the Heechee? The anomaly reminded me of the Gateway asteroid the Heechee left behind, except this time the aliens are still there.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      No, I never read that, I’m writing on the fly, and these aren’t the Aliens you seek,

      • DEG

        Ahh…

  6. R.J.

    Great story continues! I can see it now:
    “The phallic probes of the one known as Bezos penetrated our space.”

  7. Hyperion

    “they became giants of their species”

    Oooh, giant space milfs, whoaaa…

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      The Romans were 5’2″, we are 5’8″ it was Alllieeens man!

      • Hyperion

        5’2 scary gladiators? No wonder they couldn’t subdue the barbarian hordes. Last I seen of the barbarian hordes, in Rio, wearing speedos, tube socks, and sandals, they were all taller than me.

  8. rhywun

    Merry Succos, everyone.

    I have two more days off, tomorrow and Wednesday.

    • Hyperion

      “Succos”

      It’s not like you’re going to make us believe that is a real thing. We’re edumencated and stuff.

      • rhywun

        Oh ye of little (((faith))).

    • MikeS

      Shalom

    • Not Adahn

      Whoever decided that mixing lima beans with corn warranted its own name anyway?

  9. Hyperion

    Maxine Waters, lol. Hundreds of years? Wait, I thought it was only 100 years ago when slave owning white men wrote the Constitution? How many hundreds of years are we talking about? Were there slave owning dinosaurs?

  10. Hyperion

    Huh

    Huh, I don’t get it. Why would they try to correct this 100% true story that takes us back 100s of… maybe millennia, may epochs of time. Will the 3.5 trillion even cover these reparations? We need to spend more now!

    • Hyperion

      “The Times has not seen conclusive evidence that migrants were struck with the reins.”

      But, feelwins were hurted.

  11. Yusef drives a Kia

    My life sucks right now, but it could be a Hella worse, Beer and Women! Yes!

    • Festus

      It was a nice twist of the tale, Bob.

  12. Fourscore

    I read that as “Tails of the Belt”

    I’m not really into too much kink or al least I wasn’t when I was able to be into stuff like that. I read the whole chapter, with some difficulty and I must have missed something. No French, no Greek, nothing that I would consider ‘icky’.

    Thanks, Yusef, we kept our family rating.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Sir! I would never disparage this fine website, I am a Gigalo, but not a Cad,
      Harrumph!

    • Brochettaward

      That’s because you never had a chance to retire and find your inner freak like all the elderly in Florida. People with nothing left to do in their lives besides drive slow and spread venereal disease to one another.

      When I retire from being a full time Firster, I plan to die in poon.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Retirement is for quitters, are you a quitter Bro?

    • R.J.

      We have a family rating?
      *Checks Thursday’s movie review
      Oh dear.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        If SF doesn’t lose our rating, you’re good to go,

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      It was salacious articles that got me hooked on science fiction back in my yoot.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Frank Frazetta! I love me some Space boobs!

  13. straffinrun

    We’re gonna give the aliens the omega variant?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      They took our Wimmens! why not give them a weak virus the kills.001 percent of those who contract it?

    • Chafed

      Pffffft. We’re not willing to share.

  14. Hyperion

    Downloading New World. Because even Smeagol still deserves a chance.

    40GB – 51% 40.1 MB/s. 10 minutes. Impressive.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      link?

      • Hyperion

        Just go to Stream and search for New World. I’m already setting up my game profile…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Nah, I don’t have 40$ for a game I may not like,

      • Hyperion

        Can you get Starlink up there? I mean, I’m using Crapcast, but downloading 40 GB in less than 20 minutes is still fairly impressive.

      • Hyperion

        Jumping on the EU servers, because US EC is not online until 8am tomorrow and I’ll be working…

      • Ownbestenemy

        Thought it was still pre-sale? Love now?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Live…whatever

      • Hyperion

        No, I guess the EU servers are still not live for another 3 hours and Murica is 8am tomorrow.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        US servers are DLing for me,

      • Ownbestenemy

        Thought you just said you didn’t want to play a game you didn’t like. I has confused face.

    • rhywun

      Ah… you’re my don’t-tread-on-me steam-friend.

      Yeah, no. MMO is not my bag.

      • Hyperion

        See, here’s the secret. You can play the game single player. For like forever. Only they call it solo, not single player. Same thing though.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        hmmm, that sounds intriguing,

      • rhywun

        Yeahhhh but… MMO tells me that’s where the focus is. Single-player probably sucks.

        I prefer games that are designed for single-player only.

        Unless there’s something spectacularly amazing about it, I’m not even going to look at a game with MMO as it’s main selling point.

      • Ownbestenemy

        You can build! Craft! Like…every other game

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        And chase that one crystal that make the orgasmic mutonatron!

      • rhywun

        Oh. Yeah, not helping.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        The offline thing sold me, I can play alone, or maybe get my gaming buddy interested,

      • Hyperion

        “Yeahhhh but… MMO tells me that’s where the focus is. Single-player probably sucks.”

        No, that’s not true. I played ESO for 300 hours.

    • Timeloose

      I downloaded elite dangerous a few weeks ago. I played the original back in the 80’s. Incredible game. Open world, but you can play alone if you want.

      Space trade, fight, mine or explore.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Space games like that are fun. I dig Eve but it is too deep into its cycle to enjoy without shit tons of Chinese farmers taking everything from you. I only know this cause one of my younger employees was some large corporation leader of Eve and he had an army of them for offline hours.

      • Timeloose

        This game is fun without any other players being encountered. You have the entire galaxy to explore. It’s worth it just for the map of the galaxy in the game.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      That’s Fucking Evil….

      • straffinrun

        The only thing more evil would be to then take out the kid with a drone strike.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        At least I know where my Taxes go,

      • Brochettaward

        You two are pussies.

      • straffinrun

        Hey, I’m continuing the joke while feigning outrage.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Where is my fainting couch? oh Bother!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Tomorrow I sight in my new crossbow, run a Disc Tournament, then fish for Pike, before a nice Roast beef dinner, whatcha gonna do? Cry in a corner?

      • Brochettaward

        whatcha gonna do?

        Your mother.

        You see that, straf? That’s how your mom jokes should be done.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        My Mother is 15 years dead, kinda gross, dontcha think?

      • dbleagle

        After seeing too many charming videos, I laughed.

  15. straffinrun

    Wife: “You don’t even know that our daughter entered puberty.”
    Me: “Really? Why do you think I’ve been doing the laundry blindfolded?”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Works for both boys and girls. This is why we had them do their own laundry starting at age 6…so we didn’t have to deal with stiff socks.

      • straffinrun

        Ignorance is bliss. *stuffs large bite of steak in mouth*

      • Ownbestenemy

        It is until they don’t do what they are told and you have to move their laundry and you find a buttplug. Oh look..a steak.

      • straffinrun

        When you saw only one pair footprints in the sand, that’s when I left you and your buttplug to your own devices.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Y’allins wierd and shit, Let’s just talk pussy, that’s a fan favorite,

      • Ownbestenemy

        We aren’t what the world asked for, but what it needed.

      • Festus

        That’s the funniest comment that I’ve read here for some time. Take a bow!

      • Akira

        My mom taught me how to operate the washer and dryer when I was about 10 I think. It wasn’t until adulthood that I learned that most kids never did laundry until the day they moved out. It was very bizarre to me.

      • Festus

        We learned early. Mom was a drunk that would wash pens from Dad’s shirts with your baseball uniforms. She never attended a single one of my games even though I was playing at a high level. Poor Mom.

  16. straffinrun

    I’m gonna coin a new term: cringestalgic . Heard this at the coffee shop and was back in a pea green Ford Galaxie on the way to an al anon meeting.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XonHIXdA2Zg

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Oh the cringetastic things I survived, good times? Yep.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Talgic? i have no memory Sir,

      • Ownbestenemy

        I think one my cringetastic memories was running around Lake Arrowhead in the woods with BB guns shooting at each other with friends. Good God I could not imagine doing that today.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        At least you weren’t tree surfing on acid, in Big Bear
        /good times….

      • Ownbestenemy

        I miss Cali of the 80s/90s…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        So do I, I wish I could go home, but that Cali is dead, it sucks
        /too cold for too long up here,

    • Festus

      So Al anon didn’t stick? Good for you! We need all of our correspondents from the Far East!

  17. Hyperion

    Still no EU servers, or any servers up for New World. No China, Aussie, Canada, Oregon, or Cali servers either… Oh wait, all those communist countries have banned computer games.

    I set all the graphic settings to max at 3440×1440. Looks pretty good, 52 FPS. Not bad for release day. Will try again tomorrow.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Cause it hasn’t released yet..10 minutes for Europe

  18. rhywun

    Wow, I just zonked out in my chair and had an actual dream with characters and shit that I can remember. That never happens.

    • Akira

      I’ve heard if you don’t think about a dream within ~10 minutes after waking up, it doesn’t get stored in your long-term memory. No idea how much of a scientific basis that has, but it seems like that’s generally how it works for me.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I’ve totally forgotten all of it already. Just the barest of details.

      • hayeksplosives

        The temporal lobe is an amazingly creative thing. Its jobs include processing real time experiences but also accessing old memories.

        Sometimes it “mis-files” a real time experience as a memory, and that is what we call Deja Vu (I swear I’m not making this up).

        I happen to have temporal lobe epilepsy. That manifests in interesting ways, including extremely vivid dreams. Before I was diagnosed and medicated, I had “deja vu” many times a week. Technically those are all seizures, so even though it sounds fun, it was bad for my brain.

        Nowadays I’m seizure-free, but I admit that I miss the creativity…

        Even medicated, a portion of my left temporal lobe is constantly in “delta” waves, which indicate dreaming. I guess it’s part of what makes me “me”.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Here’s one for you, Hayek:

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tbU3zdAgiX8

        A frat brother and I sang and played back in the day, lots of this kind of stuff. The ladies were particularly fond of this one ( I was tenor harmony dude ).

      • Gender Traitor

        Nice! A fave indeed!

        S&M version:
        When I want you in the night,
        When I want you to scratch and bite,
        Whenever I want you,
        All I have to do is scream…

      • Ghostpatzer

        Lol. Why do I get the feeling you might have actually performed that?

      • Gender Traitor

        In public? I don’t recall. Maybe some time around Halloween. (Along with Spooky, of course.)

      • Ghostpatzer

        Spooky. That is a Classic, love it

      • Gender Traitor

        Sang it with TT at a nearby open mic last week. Always like to include something seasonal.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Classics IV or Atlanta Rhythm Section? I prefer the first because sax solo.

      • hayeksplosives

        Thanks dude.

        I’ll have to wait til later to watch and listen because I don’t want to awake the Kraken next to me…

    • Sean

      ?

    • TARDis

      If I had space in my room, I could see getting a camo recliner. I’m pretty sure my wife would keep the door closed thereafter.

    • hayeksplosives

      Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing H2O2…

    • Ghostpatzer

      WTF? Everyone knows butyl nitrate is the best inhalant for COVID.

      • Festus

        Kinda knew that Patzie would know about Poppers, even if they are actually amyl nitrate.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Ackshually, either will do. Butyl was sold as an air freshener – “Locker Room”. Because who doesn’t love essence of sweaty men?

      • Festus

        Dang!

      • Festus

        They used to sell it in tiny bottles in the “Head Shops”. Called it “Rush”. It never did anything except get 14 year-olds to pretend to be high.

      • TARDis

        Wow, I remember that. That was a lifetime ago.

      • Festus

        Right? Lets compare toke stones!

    • rhywun

      Somebody wants you to think it is a thing. A statement that anyone actually did it seems to be conspicuously missing.

  19. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam

    whats goody

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, homey! And hayek & Sean! I guess everyone else is gaming.

      Survived my first day back at work yesterday – got payroll posted and the usual Monday mountain of mail sorted. Here’s hoping today is a little more low-key. Gonna take one last look through the backlog of e-mails to make sure I didn’t overlook anything important.

      Wassup by you?

      • UnCivilServant

        Gaming? No.

        Finding out I still haven’t won the lottery.

      • Gender Traitor

        I’m sorry. Me neither

        (Failed to buy a ticket.)

      • Tres Cool

        Evidently it rained last night. I was a little drunk and left the truck windows open. Got me a wet ass when I made the beer-run to the Ghetto Kroger.
        The stock of Milwaukee’s Diet Beast have been running thin, and I ran into the Miller merchandiser. I asked him whats going on, and he said “we cant get it, and the plant isnt making it”.

        My heart stopped for at least a full 10 seconds.

    • hayeksplosives

      Not much Bro.

      Just up way too late (early?) and hanging out with my cat.

      Today’s agenda is getting the house sorted a little better so that the SWAT team movers have an easier task.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Back to work today. Blech. Picked up a few round roasts yesterday at a price I don’t expect to see again: $3.99/lb. Garage freezer may be my all-time best investment.

      • Gender Traitor

        It’s tempting to see about getting a chest freezer, but I don’t want anything else in the garage – no room for cars as it is – and I dread the thought of getting it into the basement.

      • Ghostpatzer

        I have a rather oversized garage, an extra 6 feet beyond where the back wall would normally be, so freezer + shelves, and still fits 2 cars.

        Chest freezer… phrasing?

      • TARDis

        “Sorry honey, I have usually have cold hands.”

        I inherited poor circulation from my dear mother.

      • Festus

        Yep, leave it behind. Not worth the hassle, You should have used it as a selling point – “c/w 800lb chest freezer! Will work until it stops!”

      • UnCivilServant

        Put it on rails and build a table over it. When you need to get something from the freezer, the rails let out pull it out from under the table, and the table prevents cluttering up the top of the lid by blocking the level surface.

        Now if only there were any place with room to pull out a freezer into…

      • Gender Traitor

        I wonder if a small one such as Tulip describes would fit under our small “dining room” (really, the upstairs music room) table? Would it be tacky to put the rails over the carpet?

      • UnCivilServant

        I was being unserious, and those rails are a trip hazard.

      • Gender Traitor

        We have cats. We’re used to trip hazards.

      • Festus

        Your entire ensemble should run on rails, Red! That would be a cool house!

      • Ghostpatzer

        Ruby on rails… Good band name, also a web platform.

      • Festus

        I like you, Patzie. You get me.

      • Tulip

        My chest freezer is about the size of a dishwasher. It’s useful for me, and I could move it to the basement alone if necessary. Since I’m single, that’s enough. It would be good for two people as well.

      • TARDis

        When we move, whenever that is, we’ll be leaving ours right where it is now. “House for sale, free freezer included”.

      • Festus

        All of the appliances are staying put if that happens. Fuck that noise! I’ve moved my last one up or down stairs forever.

      • Tulip

        That’s almost as good as winning the lottery.

      • Ghostpatzer

        No shit. I thought beef was pricey here in NJ until I went up to Scranton to visit my younger son this weekend. $9.99/lb for round roast? He has developed a taste for pork (no euphemism).

      • hayeksplosives

        Chest freezer is totally worth the price .

        I foresee much more hunting in my future; pronghorns are tasty.

    • Festus

      Naked girl links with pale nipples. My kingdom for a time machine!

  20. robodruid

    Good Morning All:
    As always, sun is coming up.
    Wife may have found milk sheep on sale. Just have to go get them.
    Potential Road Trip.

    In fed drone news, still no notification on Vid vaccine. Which I find odd and anti-climatic.

    • limey

      You didn’t expect them to be too efficient in rolling all this out, did you?

      • robodruid

        Its been 3 weeks since the EO has been signed.
        I figured the lawyers at the Pentagon would have set this up by now.

  21. TARDis

    Good morning, Glibs, Glibladies, and Globs. All quiet on the southern front.

    I’m looking forward to visiting my Orthospinologist (Chiropractor) today. He has successfully removed my phantom pain that runs from my shoulder to my wrist. Yay, I can sleep again!

    • Festus

      Nice! I found them unhelpful (along with acupressure and acupuncture) but if it works for you? Dandy!

    • robodruid

      Sleep is awesome
      Glad you are getting better

    • Ghostpatzer

      Excellent. Less pain is good.

    • limey

      Excellent. Pain sucks. I have a tooth extraction in a couple of weeks that can’t come soon enough.

      Morning!

      • TARDis

        You have dentists now??? When did that happen?
        J/K
        Hope it goes well.

        I was very skeptical of chiropractors, but he’s a bit different than the typical snap and cracker.

      • Festus

        If they find too much damage just take the plunge. Rip them fuckers out so they stop soaking you bi-monthly. Sure, you might lose your sense of taste but at least you wont have bad breath anymore.

      • Sean

        Gonna get a dental implant?

  22. limey

    Oh bother. I just now see that I had a message back about a job a couple of weeks ago. I took another job in the mean time and this job looks much better. No point now but I did send a reply apologising for missing the message. Oh well.

    There have been some big red flags at this new job. As much as I don’t like the idea of a short termer on the résumé, I’m still looking.

  23. Tres Cool

    “Please stop inhaling hydrogen peroxide to treat COVID, doctors warn”

    Don’t tell these dipshits to buy a “room deodorizer” which is really just an ozone (O3) generator. Most models have an ozone sensor, and will cut the thing off when the concentration nears 0.03%, or 3 ppm or something, which is what I think the ambient air quality standard is. However, some models have an over-ride that disables it, allowing you to fill a space with an annoying oxidizer.
    Once I was asked to do a (pro bono) mold study for a church that had suffered water damage. The elderly congregants were having a bad time breathing during services, so I was asked to look for that spooky, scary Black Mold (or in a more sensitive was, Mold Of Color). I dropped by after work and started looking around at the walls, baseboards, under the pews. I saw some fungus, but nothing scary. However,while laying on the floor, I smelt was seemed like after a thunderstorm. I walked to one corner of the sanctuary and was nearly knocked over by the ozone funk. These assholes had half a dozen of those machines going full-blast, all set on override.
    I told the pastor I took some samples and Id be back the next day. I rented an ozone monitor walked in, and some areas were 20-50 ppm. I told the pastor, “I think I found your problem”.

    • Not Adahn

      Whycome you no want oldies get oxygen?

      • Not Adahn

        O3 is 50% better than O2!

      • Tres Cool

        When I do a metals test, the reagents are 10% HNO3/3%H2O2. Mercury is collected using a solution of 10% H2SO4 and 4% KMnO4. The peroxide comes bulk as 30% v/v. I love showing new people what happens when 2 strong oxidizers (peroxide and permanganate) collide, and the ensuing foamy mess it creates.

        Kinda like when an old chemist on staff showed me nitrogen triiodide…

    • Festus

      Hate-speech.