Prince of Lava

Earliest known poster for Prince of Lava.

Prince of Lava is a 1987 American supernatural comedy stoner film about a group of industrial chemistry students who assist a Catholic priest in investigating an ancient lava lamp discovered in a monastery, which they come to find is a sentient, liquid embodiment of chemical polarity.

Commentary

Such a fine line between chemical immiscibility—

—and mixing multiple sources of randomness together in a cryptographic entropy pool.

Source: Journal of Lava Lamp Applications

In the News

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  Secret Reagent Man is a British-American television series about a spy (Patrick McGoohan) and a musician (Johnny Rivers) who team up to advance chemistry worldwide. Periodically guest starring Dmitri Mendeleev.

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  "Skull's Out" is a song by Alice Cooper.

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  Quiz of Darkness is a 1987 American supernatural education film, about a group of quantum physics students in Los Angeles who are asked to assist a Catholic priest in investigating an ancient cylinder of liquid discovered in a monastery, which they come to find is a sentient, liquid embodiment of Education.

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  Such a fine line between chemical immiscibility and mixing multiple sources of randomness together in a cryptographic entropy pool.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Quiz of Darkness
• Secret Reagent Man
• Skull's Out (song)
• Such a fine line between chemical immiscibility and cryptographic randomness

External links

• Post @ Twitter (12 October 2022)
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• Prince of Darkness (film) @ Wikipedia

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkBSEWy8WfY Prince of Darkness - trailer @ YouTube