Breaking Bad Season 4

manveruppd said:
Any chemists in here? I'm very curious how accurate the science is... Is there a lot of fiction and technobabble?
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Walt does go into great detail about cooking.

Was reading this.

Then read this and thought of the first episode of season 4. :cool:

The Chemistry Must Be Understood..

You’re not going to be able to safely make meth. period. Despite what you may have read on this forum or that, a cook can’t just “throw” their “ingredients” into a container and have a “half time joint” (as I’ve read). If they do they’ll most likely end up in one of the photos described above.
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Haha, yes I thought the exact same thing when I read this: "All to often careless “cooks” sloshing around substandard containers, often under pressure, pay for their carelessness":D

Wasn't just talking about the accuracy of the cook info though, other stuff too, like can you really get enough thermite from a single etch-a-sketch to burn through a thick door?
 
manveruppd said:
Wasn't just talking about the accuracy of the cook info though, other stuff too, like can you really get enough thermite from a single etch-a-sketch to burn through a thick door?
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meh, some of it is a little far fetched. Remember the scene in season 1 where Walt is in Tuco's place and using that ake meth to blow up the place? The windows and smashed to bits but all eveyone got was a little stunned... and Walt being unphased by it even though he was the closest to the bang. :confused:

Heres the clip.

 
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Yeah, that too, I always wondered whether it was feasible! :) I googled the name of the compound and it turns out others have been wondering too: http://chemistry.about.com/b/2008/03/05/mercury-fulminate-breaking-bad.htm
For anyone who can't be bothered to click through, yes, the thing is really that explosive, yes it can be synthesized in the home (though it's extremely dangerous, and even more dangerous to carry around in your pocket!), the only snag with the way it's used is that all the pics of it I've seen online were in powdered form. I have no idea whether it can be crystallized.
As for how was Walt unfazed by the explosion I guess it's not that huge a problem considering he was expecting it, and we can assume he threw it away from him. And he wouldn't be worried about mercury poisoning as he's already got lung cancer at that point! :p
 
manveruppd said:
Yeah, that too, I always wondered whether it was feasible! :) I googled the name of the compound and it turns out others have been wondering too: http://chemistry.about.com/b/2008/03/05/mercury-fulminate-breaking-bad.htm
For anyone who can't be bothered to click through, yes, the thing is really that explosive, yes it can be synthesized in the home (though it's extremely dangerous, and even more dangerous to carry around in your pocket!), the only snag with the way it's used is that all the pics of it I've seen online were in powdered form. I have no idea whether it can be crystallized.
As for how was Walt unfazed by the explosion I guess it's not that huge a problem considering he was expecting it, and we can assume he threw it away from him. And he wouldn't be worried about mercury poisoning as he's already got lung cancer at that point! :p
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But if the blast was strong enough to smash all the windows and knock out a few AC's which probably weigh a few hundred pounds, then yeah. Someone should have lost a limb. lol.
 
mrk said:
Yeah I didn't expect Skyler to die like that :S
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yea, and I didn't expect Walt JR to do it either. That guy is a ice col killer.

On a serious note. Episode 4 has really raised the stakes. Its starting to reach boiling point for Walt and Jesse.
 
You mean with Mike? (highlight to despoilerise) The cartel, whom Gus screwed over last season by sending the two hitmen who wanted to avenge Tuco's death after Hank instead, leading to a Mexican army operation against the cartel itself, are back and trying to mess with Gus's business. I don't understand how Gus knew they were going to hit THAT truck though, I mean he apparently has hundreds of locations and last season they showed us a clip of dozens of trucks leaving the laundromat at the same time.

BTW, that long opening scene between Skylar and Walt was hilarious! :D
 
Robert1986 said:
Ah... Didn't really pick that up. Was pretty epic. Mike is such a bad ass.
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He really is - I thought Hank was hard for managing to down 2 hitmen while unarmed, but Mike is harder than a brick wall with metal spikes in it. If they decide to kill him off they'll have to come up with something special if it'll be convincing that it could take him down.

BTW, unquote me, you're respoilerising my despoilerised spoilers:p
 
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