Well, my memory's a little rusty on this. We may need Amos or Bruce O. to help us out. Or maybe Trillian what's her name.

I think a cold cup of tea had something to do with somebody getting a breakthrough about how to accomplish a nuclear reaction with cold fusion rather than fission, which, as we all know, would solve all of the earth's energy problems, and wouldn't pose the dilemmas that are caused by nuclear fission. And I think this might have been what made the 'infinite improbability drive' possible. I could be wrong about this.

But this post...

Mousethief/Alex, for a dog to put out H2S with no sulpher in, it must be a nuclear reactor or equivalent.

...made me think, "if it could be done using a cold cup of tea, maybe it could be done using a dog."