"I imagine if I do it will be difficult to miss. There's bound to be an explosion or two. Perhaps some deadly gas being released, or a crater or two. Ah, what fun!" So she has a strange idea of what constitutes "fun," but she also doesn't really care what other people think. She'll have to find a place to rebuild a lab anyway, might as well use it to make something explode testing something entirely theoretical.
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