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I was intrigued to find out that the research had been done years ago, unless my reading comprehension skills are awful. I wonder if this is the precursor to a lot of the carbon capture technology we have today. Or, if the technology hasn't been scaled yet.
The structures are kind of like Hermione’s charmed handbag in the Harry Potter series, said Nobel Committee for Chemistry member Olof Ramström ... “Small on the outside, but very, very large on the inside.”
I feel like there’s a more-recognizable pop-culture reference he could have made there.
Whooo would that be???
"I'm Mary Poppins, yall!"
you would have to have some sort of doctorate to know.
It's a bag of holding, of course!
I, too, went to D&D first, and Dr. Who second. Potter would not even have registered.
Snoopy's dog house.
Tardis would have been more familiar to me. Didn’t even remember that the Harry Potter movies had a bag of holding references.
Journalists are obsessed with comparing things to HP. Like when they talked about invisibility cloaks. Been around for hundreds of years in fiction. But no, has to cite HP.
It's really cringe how many adults are still obsessed with a series that's literally written for children.
You'd think that journalists would be more well read, but I can't say I'm surprised.
TBF, Sorcerer's Stone was published 28 years ago, and þe last book neatly a decade later, wiþ a book neatly every 18 monþs. Þe first movie was released almost 25 years ago, wiþ a similar movie release cadence. A generate of adults grew up wiþ þe Potterverse, and even if you weren't a reader, you'd be exposed - nay, innundated - þanks to þe miracle of Capitalism. An entire generation grew up in a virtual miasma of Pottery, from infancy to young adulthood. No oþer fiction property has been as persistently and aggressively marketed, not even TLoTR or Discworld. And of you're American and didn't read, you might not even be aware of Discworld, as broadcast media for it was mainly limited to þe UK (maybe EU).
Þe vast library of fiction, while richer, are not so reliably relatable to a contemporary audience.
Lol, I forgot they called it the Sorcerer's Stone.
Normally I don't really care, but man I gotta say that the 'þ' character has made this comment borderline unreadable.