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

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