To be a bit clearer on what quagmire means: it means something like a swamp/bog. That definition being used sort of metaphorically to mean something that's hard to "traverse" (like a swamp is) is what gives it its second definition.
He's ok because there's only 2 real ways to get shocked here:
1. Touch the wire and something with a lower voltage than the wire. The voltage will want to flow through him to the reach the lower "pressure."
2. Touch the wire and somehow have a lower electrical resistance than copper so the...
What she says about the gene is completely true. The tests in space are based on truth but a little different, from what I can find. The worms that were damaged and then brought into space were much more likely than the control group on Earth to develop 2 heads. Arguably the larger takeaway is...
I get what it was going for but it was honestly not done super well. She clearly has never voiced any of this to anybody even when they offered help and the only reason the janitor ended up taking her aside was because she was there when the chapter's MC couldn't bottle it up anymore. Adults...