@msh Solution! Hah! I get it!

😉

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon Add chemistry and medicine to the sciences deeply insulted by this movie.

#Monsterdon NOT NOW, LITTLE GIRL WITH THE STUFFED TOYS

another rule

3) Don't let pharmacists talk

#monsterdon

Wow - that's a good police radio! It sounds like the doc is standing just off camera!

#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters

This movie tells me it must have rained on Jupiter during 2010 #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe in hotpants #monsterdon

#Monsterdon tbh modern scifi films could use marginally more accurate science like 1950s ones.

doctor spooncore?

what is spooncore?

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

That's, like, a year's worth of weather for Riverside. The Inland Empire is gonna have a bad time. #Monsterdon

I liked the cops from last week better, they had those kicky little bowties. Like they delivered hamburgers on rollerskates in their off hours :D #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I'm kinda obsessed with how pretty #LolaAlbright is in this.
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Tell everyone in town to panic. That'll be the best way to help #monsterdon

They still haven't explained how the petrification continues even after you put the rock down. Or was it just a process that's already started and the silica is gone and they can't stop it?

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

"Your formula worked completely! Ginny is completely cured! Over."

"Wait, who is Ginny again?"

#monsterdon

THESE ARE THE STORIES OF THE NAKED FREEWAY

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

@amyfou #monsterdon Amy, remember COVID and here there is no internet

All the 1950s household conveniences are malfunctioning!

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon the GEOLOGISTS acting like the meteorologist is speaking nonsense COME ON

The wonders of silicone injections! Jenny is cured!

#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters

There should have been a big PSSSSSHHHHHTTTTT sound when he unlatched that iron lung.

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

"They cut the power..."

"How did they cut the power, man!? Their minerals!"

#monsterdon

okay I don't think you know that she's 'completely out of danger'

#monsterdon

Stay tuned to this station for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, DIE #Monsterdon

Damn that's some strong coffee, wake up the rocks even!

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Ethel - Create a giant party line like we do on #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon “What is it I’m supposed to warn them about?”

Wait, what do you mean ’The rocks are invading in force’??

I never appreciated the challenge in depicting the transformation of flesh into stone and back in a black and white movie until #Monsterdon tonight

I wonder if there's a history of coffee-making methods. I occasionally read descriptions of someone making coffee in the first half of the 20th century and it's like, they know it involves coffee beans and hot water, but beyond that they're just guessing.

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Uh-oh, Mineral Ginny has awoken....

#monsterdon

Coffee so bad it keeps you single. #monsterdon

Let's hear it for the sassy operator :P #Monsterdon

Meteorologist guy munched half the scenery in just those few minutes. Glorious.

#monsterdon

The weather man lives a lonely life.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon this is weirdly a more realistic representation of science than in current movies. Two dudes in a lab, chatting casually and poking a rock, completely overwhelmed because this isn't their very specific and narrow field of expertise.

Safety has improved but other than that, pretty much the same.

Look, it's a public crisis and the only thing that will save everyone is drastic, coordinated public action. So, uh, nevermind then. #monsterdon

@jonny Though that could have played out with one rock randomly getting coffee on it and then that'd be all

#Monsterdon

and rock 'n roll is AAVE for raunchy sex

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"Hello weatherman? Can you please shut the rain off before we all die?" #monsterdon

Is this a meteorology joke? Is this about geologists making fun of a meteorologist?
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters

Yes, thank you, we understand exponential growth.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Oh god. The military-style discussion of the oncoming Invasion of the Monoliths is making it hard for me to type.

The water rock silicon transfer flow is still obscure to me.

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oh my, these rocks are really getting, uh, large huh #monsterdon

#Monsterdon

Is no one going to start handling these rocks with gloves? I mean, surely that would be a reasonable precaution, right?

so the rocks came to earth to drink all the water and eat all the silicon sure sure but when will they learn to talk and tell us what they believe #monsterdon

so the rock not only steals silicates from everything, I guess it transmutes water into silicates? or something?

#monsterdon #monolithmonsters

Oh no it’s Space Godzilla #monsterdon

YOU TAKE THAT BACK! Coffee is the finest organic suspension humanity has every devised! Janeway said so!

#monsterdon

The thing about saying everybody who touches the meteorites petrifies is that every character has held the rock at least once. #monsterdon

The monsters are here! And they are thirsty!
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters

those bastard rocks aren't getting my coffee

#monsterdon

How many essential elements are there for Pete’s sake: earth, air … #Monsterdon

"As long as there is water, it'll multiply again and again—”

<THUNDER>

"OH SHIT"

#Monsterdon

what they are going to do, put a giant umbrella over the meteorite?
#monsterdon

Actually, I'm not sure that's a Bunsen burner. I think it's a Meker burner?

#Monsterdon

"Coffee is nothing but flavored water."

Now I know who the real villain of the movie is.

#monsterdon

they had a perfect opening to make coffee the activating agent but they took the cowards way out and went with water #monsterdon

"...coffee is nothing but flavored water"

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the rocks are here for our coffee! my god!

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon Water made the rock grow!

Sedimentary, my dear Watson.

'Coffee is nothing but flavored water..."
How ya feel about that description @trixter ?
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OH NO THE METEORS HAVE COME FOR OUR COFFEE #monsterdon

COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE
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#Monsterdon See, coffee is life! #CoffeeWatch

oh my gods he's boiling coffee straight

probably like he learned in world ware II i guess

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#Monsterdon Once again we established that Scientists Run on Coffee.

Look at that rock engorge....

#monsterdon

I wanna make coffee with lab equipment.

#monsterdon

is this younger guy hitting on this older guy? here let me pour you some coffee, hey did you know i'm a bachelor, etc. ??? i might ship it. #monsterdon

@Taweret In the 50s, wandering around the Nevada desert and picking up strange rocks was indeed dangerous. #monsterdon #monolithmonsters

Bet these rocks would love silicon valley #Monsterdon

Armus??? #Monsterdon #monolithmonsters1957

That's gonna be some really gross coffee.

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Grow, my minerals! GROW!!!!!

#Monsterdon

That big rock is absolutely fuming with rage

#monsterdon

I was hoping he'd try to inject her and the needle would bend because she was rock. #monsterdon

AH SHIT

#monsterdon

Oh noes! The gremlins got wet! I told you not to bathe them!
#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon What a very narratively appropriate thunderstorm!

*starts to rain

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon Is that ... coffee? I don't think that's any coffee we want to drink. #CoffeeWatch

So, we're going to inject silicone-based lube directly into Jenny's veins and hope it goes where it needs to go.

#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters

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Good thing this meteor landed in ... the desert

Gee those iron lungs look like fun don't they

#monsterdon

"It does everything but grow."

'Salright Dave, it happens to everyone at times. #Monsterdon

it seems like the solution to this is to just leave the rocks alone

#monsterdon

Ok, this is a chemistry thing so I got this.

If you burned a bunch of metal in an oxygen atmosphere (as in earth) you aren't going to get a bunch of things "ready to activate" you've just made a bunch of metal oxides.

#Monsterdon

this is what scientists do when they're bored, just grind up some rocks and set them on fire. #monsterdon

“What makes it multiply?”

Well, you see, when a mommy rock and a daddy rock love each other very much...

#Monsterdon

If we took the time to plan this, we wouldn't be winging it! #monsterdon

That's an old rock and an awful lot of anthropomorphizing
#Monsterdon

Star Trek did it better.

#monsterdon

Yes! Touch the rocks more! More people are turning to stone but lets touch EVERYTHING! I'll bet he licked it like any good geologist too!

#monsterdon #themonolithmonsters

This handful of gravel is so much more lifeless than the other handful of gravel!!!

Srsly?

#Monsterdon
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yeah, maybe we should stop handling those since people have been dying from doing that idk

#monsterdon

@SordidAmok I don't like lifeless sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating....

#Monsterdon

#TrueFacts Actually, getting 20-50mg of silicon a day is good for bone density!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2658806/

If only I'd seen this instructional film, er, movie, first. 😀

#monsterdon

THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS, THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS - Me, the whole time watching this movie

#monsterdon #monolithmonsters

So Ginny touched a rock that took all the rock out of her body, and now she's turning into a rock, so she needs to eat rocks, right?

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters