Snottite
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Snottite
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#2I love the internet.
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#3Life never lets an exothermic reaction go to waste
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#4Sounds more like a Dungeons and Dragons monster than a real thing. Roll to avoid an acid-based critical hit, or something.
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#5Snoticle!
Hacker News is just the gift that keeps on giving. :)
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#6Just when you thought spelunking couldn't get any more terrifying you see this. You're stuck, wedged between two rocks, AND acid is eating away at your body.
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#7I couldn’t believe that these were named after the Bohemian bacteriologist Hans-Otto Snottite.
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#8The associated cave, Cueva de Villa Luz [1] wouldn't feel out of place in any decent DnD campaign either.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueva_de_Villa_Luz (see german article for more details)
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#9I couldn’t believe that these were named after the Bohemian bacteriologist Hans-Otto Snottite.
I can’t find any corroborating sources, so either you’re trolling or that’s some OBSCURE trivia. I’m probably just being a bit dense and missing the joke.