the new TLA rumor: we will literally kill you

come to the technopath gathering we have Poison

@winter yes plz

@modnarwave sorry apparently murder is “illegal” in “france”

@risperdoll @modnarwave merci, j’vais écrire à Marine Tondelier en demandant qu’on legaliser la drogue et le meurtre

@winter what does TLA mean again?

@Nocta_Senestra

@winter ah yea

@winter @modnarwave c'est illégal que si on t'attrape*

@winter Oh okay, I'm missing context then I guess

@Nocta_Senestra it’s just this girl who makes shit up about us, this time it was a more creative scenario

but come on we don’t use poison we use
Orbital 💫
Kinetic ↘️
Bombardment 💥

@winter me when i use my stealth bomber whith nova torpedoes : "pspspsps don't worry i am extremely peaceful"

@winter this is good, keeps everything biodegradable

@estelle tungsten rods are biodegradable right?

@winter ...huh, tungsten specifically? this is how i found out tungsten is biologically active

some microbes really like it but apparently most animals don't

well, i guess it's not really *worse* than a high explosive, at least...

@estelle there’s not a whole lot of things that will be unbothered by entering Earth’s atmosphere

@winter from the moon, which has a very low escape velocity and where this is pretty close to countering the orbital velocity of the moon itself, thus ensuring maximum impact force on earth:

it might sound primitive, but my answer to "rock will burn up" is "throw a bigger rock"

@winter it's also less labor intensive to bombard as you save the labor cost of refining tungsten from regolith!

@estelle but we can’t precisely aim a rock it has terrible ærodynamic characteristcs

@ikeWren @winter yeah, my thoughts were just about to turn towards a giant meteor-sized lathe, actually

@ikeWren @winter they make fins that can deal with it and controllers that work on slightly unknown responses to control inputs, it's probably doable, just saying!

@winter *sigh* maybe you're right,

unless someone wants to design a field installable guidance package for a giant rock,

@mira sure I mean what are you gonna do sue me for not killing you?

@estelle @ikeWren having discussed the matter the Admins have decided to pursue a strategy of compressing regolith into perfect chondrite spheres

@itzzen

@itzzen @cobra @june @wyatt the best character in homestuck

@winter this is accurate, i saw this post and died sneezing

@charlotte we are an allergy risk

@winter is tla secretly pasteurized milk?

@charlotte TLA may contain pasteurized milk

@winter an update to this story, brought to you by the relevant material safety data sheet:

https://www.cdhfinechemical.com/images/product/msds/51_439522582_Tungsten(Metal)Powder-CASNO-7440-33-7-MSDS.pdf

(this is for *powdered* tungsten, but you can imagine, this is relevant)

the powdered form is a mild skin irritant and has some reproductive toxicity when absorbed orally, the wikipedia mentioned this can even affect ground worms, and states that a powder release should be disposed of properly

the proper method: heat it in an afterburning furnace, it burns into tungsten oxide

@estelle how about superheating it via atmospheric entry and then vaporizing it in a mach 10 impact, would that oxidize it all?

@winter so, it's entirely possible that your original plan has no flaws

...but tungsten *is* really hard to work with...

@winter it's probably hot enough to form a lot of interesting compounds if it wants to but oxygen seems very likely