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?
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…
“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
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.
James… am I not allowed to be sarcastic sometimes? ;-) I guess lots gets lost when typing responses…
Jon