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The millennials that designed that ad weren't around during the moon launch, or even during the early '80s when that shuttle launch occurred.
 
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From the content of that video, I could tell that they got most if not all of their content from a blog called "Things I Won't Work With" by Derek Lowe, an organic chemist. His entries, with wry humor, are about incredibly dangerous, unstable chemical compounds you will never come across unless you with great difficulty and extreme hazard to yourself synthesize them as a very brave (or very foolish?), well equipped graduate chemistry student or researcher with a lot of resources, which is why they are typically not commercially available. Under that video they included a dead link to the very old location of Lowe's bog which makes me think they borrowed their content from some other source which borrowed most of its content from Lowe some time ago.

Here's where he moved to:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/things-i-wont-work-with

Unfortunately, even that isn't all of them as others can only be found by skilled search engine digging. Here's some excerpts from just one of his blog entries. Hilariously put:

And he’s just getting warmed up, if that’s the right phrase to use for something that detonates things at -180C (that’s -300 Fahrenheit, if you only have a kitchen thermometer). The great majority of Streng’s reactions have surely never been run again. The paper goes on to react FOOF with everything else you wouldn’t react it with: ammonia (“vigorous”, this at 100K), water ice (explosion, natch), chlorine (“violent explosion”, so he added it more slowly the second time), red phosphorus (not good), bromine fluoride, chlorine trifluoride (say what?), perchloryl fluoride (!), tetrafluorohydrazine (how on Earth. . .), and on, and on. If the paper weren’t laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you’d swear it was the work of a violent lunatic. I ran out of vulgar expletives after the second page. A. G. Streng, folks, absolutely takes the corrosive exploding cake, and I have to tip my asbestos-lined titanium hat to him.

Even Streng had to give up on some of the planned experiments, though (bonus dormitat Strengus?). Sulfur compounds defeated him, because the thermodynamics were just too titanic. Hydrogen sulfide, for example, reacts with four molecules of FOOF to give sulfur hexafluoride, 2 molecules of HF and four oxygens. . .and 433 kcal, which is the kind of every-man-for-himself exotherm that you want to avoid at all cost. The sulfur chemistry of FOOF remains unexplored, so if you feel like whipping up a batch of Satan’s kimchi, go right ahead.

Update: note that this is 433 kcal per mole, not per molecule (which would be impossible for even nuclear fission and fusion reaction (see here for the figures). Chemists almost always think in energetics in terms of moles, thus the confusion. It’s still a ridiculous amount of energy to shed, and you don’t want to be around when it happens.

But I do note that if you run the structure through SciFinder, it comes out with a most unexpected icon that indicates a commercial supplier. That would be the Hangzhou Sage Chemical Company. They offer it in 100g, 500g, and 1 kilo amounts, which is interesting, because I don’t think a kilo of dioxygen difluoride has ever existed. Someone should call them on this – ask for the free shipping, and if they object, tell them Amazon offers it on this item. Serves ’em right. Morons.
 
The emotions in watching this one to the end, may not necessarily involve the first letter "L" in "LOL", but most will probably enjoy it.

[video=youtube;96kI8Mp1uOU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96kI8Mp1uOU[/video]
 
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The emotions in watching this one to the end, may not necessarily involve the first letter "L" in "LOL", but most will probably enjoy it.

[video=youtube;96kI8Mp1uOU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96kI8Mp1uOU[/video]
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Thank You for sharing that one! No fair tugging on the "heart strings" but it did make me smile! :wink:
 
[video=youtube;K-Op1Mng4oY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Op1Mng4oY[/video]
 

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