The Green Death

No!  Not The "Doctor Who" Dramamentary
Although one can only shudder with mixed fear and disgust at the prospect of a world over-run by giant flesh-eating maggots, and run by a sinister mind-controlling computer.  So, UNIT does have it's benefits, I suppose, besides being excessively nosy.  Mind you, a computer wouldn't cheat on it's expense accounts or harass the ladies, would it?

He does look a bit sick, doesn't he?

     Also on the plus side, if you stood one of those luminescent corpses in a corner, you'd not need to put the lights on.  Perhaps wrap them in cling-film to prevent early rotting.
     Okay, that's what the blog's not about.  What is it about?
     COPPER ACETATE TRIARSENITE!  And no sniggering at the back there, it's a chemical with arsenic in it, hence the name.  It was used as a dye and pigment, and if Art will put down his knife, fork and plate of coal -

Delightful.  BUT DEADLY!

     The thing is, whilst it might lend itself to giving your clothes and wallpaper a touch of spring verdancy, it is also appallingly poisonous - you were probably already ahead of me on this, given that I did mention "Arsenic".  It is so toxic, in fact, that it was used by the M8s to clear out the sewers of Paris and eliminate their rat population, which lead to the nomenclature.  It has additionally been used as an insecticide, 

Will it work on giant maggots, though?

to control the spread of malarial mosquitoes; also, somewhat unwisely, to treat apple orchards in South Canada; is that apple really green or is it going to kill you?
     So there you have it.  

No, Art - oh, go on, it can stay up.

     Now to drop the motley into the middle of a swimming pool filled with jelly and see if it can swim out!*

More Answers To Questions You Never Asked
Yes, back to that fruitful source of artistic inspiration, "Unanswerable Thunderbirds Questions", because your humble scribe is nothing if not an otiose literal-minded parser of pettifoggery.**  Let the hair-splitting begin!  Art?

Take a close look

      I think you'll find that's not a large gap at all, actually, and even if the car does manage to fit through said gap, it scrapes bodywork on all three vehicles.  Presumably the feds thought nobody would be stupid enough to try and ram their way through a very narrow space.
     Take a look at the next two pictures - 

     I think I can answer that one, too.  Jeff Tracey is exhibiting a touch of the green-eyed monster maggots,  wherein he can muck about however he likes, because "I built International Rescue and it's MINE!  MINE MINE MINE!"  Typical alpha male, can't deal with competition from anyone else, especially one of his own sons; whatever Scott did would have been wrong, because it wasn't Dad making the decision.
     Fair enough?  I thought so.

Enough pettifoggery!  Bring on the exploding horses!

      - except maybe not.  The RSPCA has had it's beady little eyes on me since yesterday's horrifying instructions on how to make chickens boneless.

     Take away the entirely whole and un-exploded horses, unharmed!

There's Irony For You
(You will groan at this later).  Mercury!
     Have we done a themed blog about this in the past?  I don't want to repeat myself.  Allow me to check, and in the meantime Art will entertain you - 

<Sighs> At least it's not Mara Corday -

     Aha, we did cover the element Mercury, chemical symbol Hg.

https://comsatangel2002.blogspot.com/2018/03/more-of-mercury.html

     That above is the link from March this year, when I dismissed the planet Mercury as not being very interesting, merely a large ball of rock close to the Sun.  Well, not everyone is as dismissive as your modest artisan.  Art?

BepiColombo

     ESA and Jaxa have mounted a mission to Mercury, sending two satellites on a journey that will take seven years to reach the hot rock.  What fuels people's interest in the planet is that most of it is made of an iron core***: 60% in fact, which is waaaay beyond what anyone expected.  So - Mercury is mostly iron, or, if you like, HG=Fe.

Finally -
See?  Absolutely unscathed.


     They didn't have to worry, I don't have any recipes that include "Horse" in them.

     And with that, we are done.  Cheerio!

*  Thick jelly, too.  None of that thin runny stuff.
**  All SFW.
***  I did warn you.