Recipe for goo

Television, Movies Games and Books BSG-2003
#1

I’m putting myself through school by working as a technician in a college chemistry lab, handing out equipment and supervising experiments.

I was having sort of a slow period last night (easy experiment, no help required), and I got to thinking… earlier that day I did a type of analysis called nephelometry where we create a suspension of sulfate particles and measure how much light they scatter. The suspension I created looked sort of familiar, so last night I did some experimenting.

I took some homogenized milk we use for coffee (milk is a suspension of fat particles) and added about twice as much glycerol (aka glycerin) to thicken it. It looked pretty good, but it wasn’t glowing the way goo does on BSG. So I added some borax and sodium phosphate, turned down the light in the stockroom and shined the UV lamp we use to monitor chromatography: it looked REALLY shite and sort of glowy, just like on BSG!

Hopefully my boss won’t read this post and find out how I’ve been using the chemical supplies…:wink:

#2

That…is so awesomely geeky, it defies words. Major kudos to you! salutes :smiley:

#3

Whoops, talk about a Freudian typo! I meant, it looked really white!!!

I guess I channelled a foul-mouthed British guy for a minute…:stuck_out_tongue:

#4

Congrats, DFM, you’re being upgraded to a Gold Geek Card.

#5

That is awesome! I think david eick had had video blog about the goo awhile back. They said how they made it. :smiley:

#6

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, goo -Homer Simpson

#7

I bow to you!

For your next feat I humbly submit: Slurm!

#8

this could have a fantastic marketing campaign in its future!

ps, on a side note, i wonder if they’re auctioning the goo from the show?

#9

Based on my dismal high school chemistry experience, I’d be worried “the goo” would explode.

#10

That could be very easily arranged. My goo recipe calls for glycerine, so just add potassium permanaganate (beautiful purple crystals), and a very rapid redox reaction will ensue… boom!

#11

As Starbuck would say, “Boom, boom ,boom.”
And as my mother would say, “Be careful out there.”