monsterzero comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 26, chapter 97 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: palladias 15 August 2013 02:18AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (501)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: monsterzero 15 August 2013 12:20:32PM *  0 points [-]

Fulminated mercury.

Edited to add: Sorry, been rewatching old Breaking Bad. You'd have to trick them into chewing it or something, wouldn't you?

Comment author: bogdanb 28 August 2013 10:42:25PM 0 points [-]

I think the rapid expansion when the transfiguration ends would be enough to set it off.

Comment author: TrE 15 August 2013 02:02:43PM *  0 points [-]

Well, for the first two of my suggestions, the victim would need to have ingested or inhaled that stuff. So smoke would probably also work. Though I wouldn't want to be nearby in that scenario.