Back in college one time the President of the US visited our campus and gave a speech. The security was intense - Secret Service on rooftops and a helicopter that dropped off the Pres and then spent the whole time he was there hovering maybe 60 or 80 ft up, dead still, like it was glued in the air - I thought that part was pretty cool. Anyway a friend of mine chose that day to toss a little chunk of sodium in a fountain out in front of the chemistry building. I wasn’t right there but I heard it made a big pop sound, yellow flash, and sent a column of water shooting up. Dunno if the agents saw it, heard it or both, but man were they scurrying all over the place for a while.
Which president?
Ford. I’m old as dirt. In fact dirt and I were in Miss Hanson’s class together.
Wow, Probably the most forgetable president in recent history. Definitly not the worst though. Clinton was president when I was born. I grew up with Bush in the white house and I thought that was as bad as it could get. I realize now we were eating good with Bush, comparitivly speaking anyway.
Let me tell you about a fellow named Nixon…
Nixion was a very naughty boy
That rascal!
A rascal Indeed
Ironically, salt has probably killed more people than both Sodium explosions and Chlorine gas combined.
Stealth attack!
Is it just me, or is NaCl a little too quiet?
One part of this food additive is a dangerous explosive. The other part of it is a poisonous gas.
Ban sodium-cloride now!
Some real swords into plowshares shit, gotta love it.
The takeaway is that memes aren’t “information” to help you form your opinions. Memes are little entertainment blobs that vastly oversimplify and exaggerate complex ideas for brevity. Everything in this specific meme is literally true, but they aren’t related. There’s no contradiction or irony, it’s just how chemistry works - it’s often not simple or intuitive, and neither are a lot of other things summed up in memes.
