I am glad there are chemo-wackos in the world. I would not choose to be one as much as I enjoy reading of their energetic exploits.
The premise of many Sci Fi movies.
And one hell of a lot of real life.
Just so long as the don’t say, “And to think, they called me mad!” or “Fools! I’ll show them!”
One of my kids is getting a doctorate in “Mad Scientist”.
So I say things like this…
… in ‘Fifties Sci-Fi Narrator Voice’.
“First, there’s an oxidizing agent that’s even nastier than chlorine trifluoride.” Dr Hansen grinned. “It’s called FOOF, dioxygen difluoride. You make it by reacting liquid fluorine and liquid oxygen in a cryogenic steel reaction vessel under X-ray bombardment. I say ‘you’ make it because I’m not stupid enough to go anywhere near the stuff myself. I hear they cancel your life insurance if they catch wind that you’re working with it. FOOF is unstable and tends to explode if you let it get much warmer than the boiling point of liquid nitrogen, or if you look at it funny. It’s mostly used in producing uranium hexafluoride from—” he coughed. “Well, anyway, it’s a great oxidizing agent!”
Jim nodded wisely. “Happy fun stuff. But you’d need a fuel to burn in it, right?”
“Yes! And we had just the stuff sitting on the shelf in the glove box, so to speak. Dimethylmercury.”
I love that book. And IANA chemist.
Sounds like the next invasive species destined for the Everglades is the Tasmanian Devil. I hope they’re good at eating snakes.
Unrelated second idea:
I wonder what the night sky looks like from that country? Or maybe it’s always both day and night there. And also always both winter & summer.
I am uneasy about the intrusion of the Northern Territory into Saskatchewan. I like my boundaries nice and straight, thankyouverymuch.
That is a suspiciously large salient, isn’t it?
OTOH, perhaps you can view it another way, where that tip-top cape east of Darwin is actually at the current Canadian border and you nice folks have suddenly got a big slice west-south-westward all the way to the Pacific into what was previously northern Washington and Montana.
Plus a monstrous big southward bite to the east into the traditional Michigan, Ohio, New York area. Heck, some of your new territory might be far enough south to not freeze at all year round.
No worries, then. Canada got squeezed into New Guinea (New Guinada?).
Complete with palm trees and cute Asian people. What’s not to like?
A couple more hurricanes and Florida is going to look like it does on that map.
With the Tampa Strait in-between.
If Bugs Bunny doesn’t get there first.
Let me check:
Rabbits!!! Oh shiiiiit!
Or at least so says Bugs.
No snow! Deal-breaker, right there.
I don’t think typhoons go that far south.
Perth is north of LA? Nope. South of LA, north of San Diego, close to Long Beach.