BioShock’s Science is Bunk! Bunk, I Tells Ya!
- August 23rd, 2007
- 4 Comments
Penny Arcade is dead wrong. I asked a real live scientist (my friend Teresa) who has a Doctorate in Scientology and she said:
I can’t think of anything that I involved with plasmids (the normal in-the-lab kind that I use) that involves fire or blowing things up
There are a lot of things in lab that you could use to start a fire or
blow things up and I can guarantee you that plasmids are not one of
them.
Penny Arcade Guys: get your facts straight, OK? God.
But this does make us wonder: maybe they’re using not the “in-the-lab” kind but the kind that kills people. Possible?
Sascha (Who am I?)
1 year ago
John, I want some of the stuff you smoked before writing this post! Just make sure not to take pictures of it with your cell phone…
Jon (Who am I?)
1 year ago
“Real live scientist (my friend Teresa) who has a Doctorate in Scientology”
Hmmm… that is an insult to the entire scientific community, it’s like equating the pope with Einstein. Scientology isn’t a science, it’s a religion!
Reading a storybook doesn’t make you a scientist!
Jon
James (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Pst… Jon.. I think it was supposed to be a joke.
As a scientist myself I’ve been vaguely chuckling at the plasmids in Bioshock, while also silently cursing that it’ll make it more difficult to Google genuine plasmids. (Although I doubt any in bioshock will be called pRep1 for example.)
While I have never used plasmids to blow things up, I have used them to make things glow under UV light, which is at least slightly exciting.
Jon (Who am I?)
1 year ago
James… am I not allowed to be sarcastic sometimes? ;-) I guess lots gets lost when typing responses…
Jon