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Iapetus

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!!Fun!! with pressure-cookers
« on: August 29, 2013, 06:38:29 pm »
As ... some advert for something used to say: "I saw this and thought of you".

"Am I right to be afraid of pressure cookers? What's the worst thing that can happen if you misuse a pressure cooker in an ordinary kitchen?"
http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/

The only question that remains: how can we implement this in Dwarf Fortress?
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Re: !!Fun!! with pressure-cookers
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2013, 07:11:38 pm »
I feel like reading that comic puts me on some kind of watch list...

Although, with my recent googling of ammonium perchlorate and other combustibles (I am a chemistry major) I probably wasn't doing too well to start.
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Re: !!Fun!! with pressure-cookers
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2013, 09:47:10 pm »
My first thought when I saw the title of this thread was this thread, which is an excellent read if you haven't already.

As far as what's described here... the closest thing that comes to mind that already exists in game requires some power, a few pumps, and - of course - plenty of magma.
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