OK so I put this in the tags of a reblog but I'm making it its own post:
So at some point last year I took a thermos full of soup into work. I only ate half of it, screwed the lid on, then took it home. I forgot about it, then four days later realised OH FUCKING SHIT I HAVE A SCIENCE EXPERIMENT IN THERE. Just before I went to work I unscrewed the top.
In the meantime, the bacteria had built up enough gas that when I unscrewed it enough, it fucking exploded. Old, rotting soup all over me. I reeked. I was late for work because I had to wash myself and change my clothes. I smelled like vomit.
In the book, Rocky is apparently under about twenty nine (or maybe 28?) times the amount of pressure that Earth is. (I say "apparently" because in the book Grace is somehow living at 0.4atm and Rocky has no way of knowing that he's under less than standard pressure when he tells Grace how many atms he lives under, but the book goes on to act as if Eridians do live under 29atms and not 0.4*29 atms. So I'm just going with that.)
Rocky also sends Grace the Blip-B. We know that it's full of ammonia because he accidentally gases Grace, lmao.
Like I thought it SHOULD have exploded, but now I've written the above out, Rocky must have known the pressure of gases within the Hail Mary already when he sent the Blip-B across and depressurised it before he sealed it, but can you imagine what would have happened if he didn't? If Dr Ryland "IT'S A BOMB!" Grace unscrewed the top of that thing and it nearly decapitated him as it rocketed upwards and punched a hole in his ceiling, and 29 atmospheres of ammonia at double the temperature of boiling (in one standard atmosphere!) came EXPLODING out?
I need an AU where this fuck up happened and Grace somehow survives and thinks an alien tried to gas/bomb him and Rocky is like SHIT SHIT SHIT BAD BAD BAD
