A Couple of Chem Postdocs Cooked It Up as a Prank.

The heavy door was thick with ice, ambient moisture freezing solid even in the filtered air of the underground facility.

“I thought we were already in the deep freeze?” said Aito.

“No one goes in there,” said Manuel. “It’s as close to zero K as an entire planet’s annual energy output can keep it. The stuff in there makes dioxygen difluoride look like argon. Don’t touch that!”

Aito drew his thickly-gloved hand back. “What?”

“We shouldn’t even be standing this close. If you destabilize it… have you ever been inside an erupting volcano?”

“…but Luna is dead.”

“It will be.”