Submitted by HaikuKnives t3_y0w60w in UpliftingNews
ruimikemau t1_irvo37b wrote
Reply to comment by gregorydgraham in NASA invents ‘incredible’ battery for electric planes by HaikuKnives
In that movie with David Duchovny, they manage to get loads of selenium from Head & Shoulders shampoo bottles and kill the huge alien with it.
rckrusekontrol t1_irvxo8o wrote
You mean that science documentary, Evolution? It’s quite simple, as Arsenic is poison to Carbon based life forms, it follows that Selenium, the next element over, would be poison to Nitrogen based life forms.
MrReginaldAwesome t1_irxob1q wrote
That's not even the craziest supposition
gregorydgraham t1_irvp59l wrote
Narrow it down a bit, I’ve ignored a lot of David Duchovny movies
ruimikemau t1_irvp984 wrote
Evolution (2001). Comedy Sci-Fi
Dr-P-Ossoff t1_is0snug wrote
I like the movie a lot, but the copy I got did not have the scene with the suburban moms, I miss it; “I don’t have A dog!”.
gregorydgraham t1_irvx0ij wrote
Oh god, I saw some of that! Awful.
spacecoyote300 t1_irw49br wrote
That movie also established that "cacaw cacaw" and "tookie tookie" don't work
ProfessionalCamp4 t1_irx7cpl wrote
Selsun Blue is the one with selenium, Head and Shoulders has zinc
floatingsaltmine t1_irx8xqd wrote
What the fuck is wrong with my brain that I remember everything about that scene and can even picture it.
Dr-P-Ossoff t1_is0spg6 wrote
Because it’s horribly embarrassing.
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