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Research Risks
Wednesday October 18^th, 2017 at 12:42 PM

xkcd.com

The 1919 Great Boston Molasses Flood remained the deadliest confectionery containment accident until the Canadian Space Agency's 2031 orbital maple syrup delivery disaster.

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snarfed

2682 days ago

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made me https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Amycology 😂

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daanzu_alt_text_bot

2658 days ago

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The 1919 Great Boston Molasses Flood remained the deadliest confectionery containment accident until the Canadian Space Agency's 2031 orbital maple syrup delivery disaster.

mooglemoogle

2682 days ago

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Two things:
1. dentistry seems too low on the super villain scale
2. I like that Paleontology isn’t quite all the way left.

Virginia

auspex

2682 days ago

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I saw "Marathon Man". I'm pretty sure Dentistry should be far higher than Linguistics

gordol

2682 days ago

Mollasses Storage item is a real thing.

auspex

2680 days ago

I knew that :-) [I didn't believe it when I first heard about it, though!] But I think the issue there is that it would be really hard to use for world domination!

jepler

2682 days ago

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I just knew the mouserover text would be about "molasses storage".

Earth, Sol system, Western spiral arm

brico

2679 days ago

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