"They might be floored, dazed, etc but they get up to have another go."
As slimy as an eel.
By not being scientific they are able to impose their versions of supernatural powers onto their new Satan.
The satanic gas can both heat and cool. It can cause devastating floods and crippling droughts. It can drive simple naive schoolchildren to suicide. It can destroy whole planets. It can bring great joy to Chinese stalinists as they watch it force Westerners to destroy their economies.
Oppenheimer was probably the first Westerner to speak/channel on behalf of the evil gas with his
