Goonhub
06-27-2023, 01:33 PM
Honestly I really don't get this eternal apprehension over letting botany make some chemicals in their plants. Sure they can get a lot of them if they do so, but it's a bunch of work. You know what else is a bunch of work? Making a metric fuckton of chems in science.
So what if the rafflesia can smoke the acid or whatever botanists make? You know who else can smoke acid in all sorts of places on the station? Science.
Like any mass production of chemicals with a recipe that you could make in botany you could just do in science too? And maybe in a 1.5 hour shift you might get slightly more via botany in the end, but it's not like 100 000 000 units of acid or something are that much different from 10 000 000 units of acid that research could have made and sprayed at everyone with less effort and time consumed.
So what if the rafflesia can smoke the acid or whatever botanists make? You know who else can smoke acid in all sorts of places on the station? Science.
Like any mass production of chemicals with a recipe that you could make in botany you could just do in science too? And maybe in a 1.5 hour shift you might get slightly more via botany in the end, but it's not like 100 000 000 units of acid or something are that much different from 10 000 000 units of acid that research could have made and sprayed at everyone with less effort and time consumed.