Briliant show. Great episode. But the Black Rock scene is an absolute disaster. For one, it was very nice of the Spanish Conquistadors to have dynamite on the ship two centuries before it was invented.
They also rightly predicted that 200 years from their time a group of American tourists would discover their ship, so they wrote the word "Explosives" in English. Which is an ever more impressive feat since even in English the word wasn't used to indicate "things that blow up" until the first World War.
But that's not all. "Doctor" Arzt is a typical high-school staff room dweller - arrogant, rude, misanthropic and badly educated. The story he tells about the inventor of dynamite "blow his face off" is total nonsense. Both Alfred Nobel and Dmitry Mendeleyev, who are both credited with the invention of dynamite, died of natural causes.
"Do you know what happens to dynamite in extreme heat?" exclaims "Doctor" Arzt. "It sweats nitroglycerin!". But hey, doc, you know what happens to nitroglycerin in extreme heat? It dries! It's still explosive but nowhere near as dangerous as shown.
Great episode nonetheless.
They also rightly predicted that 200 years from their time a group of American tourists would discover their ship, so they wrote the word "Explosives" in English. Which is an ever more impressive feat since even in English the word wasn't used to indicate "things that blow up" until the first World War.
But that's not all. "Doctor" Arzt is a typical high-school staff room dweller - arrogant, rude, misanthropic and badly educated. The story he tells about the inventor of dynamite "blow his face off" is total nonsense. Both Alfred Nobel and Dmitry Mendeleyev, who are both credited with the invention of dynamite, died of natural causes.
"Do you know what happens to dynamite in extreme heat?" exclaims "Doctor" Arzt. "It sweats nitroglycerin!". But hey, doc, you know what happens to nitroglycerin in extreme heat? It dries! It's still explosive but nowhere near as dangerous as shown.
Great episode nonetheless.