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They arrested this century’s Oppenheimer but they won’t arrest the CEOs of oil companies? The hypocrisy on display!
Well that’s stupid. In a couple of billion years he’ll have to get more!
if he had astatine, more like 20 mins
Wake me up when he has his vial of Francium ready.
Oh don’t worry, it will wake up the whole neighborhood.
God forbid men have hobbies smdh
Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest.
But what is the charge? Collecting the elements of a succulent periodic table?
GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PLUTONIUM!
This nerd did nothing wrong, now they’re training him to be a hardened criminal
I have to assume he’s working backwards, because if he’d gotten to Astatine we’d know.
I doubt he’s working backwards. Those heavier elements decay before you get halfway through blinking. And most of them kill while doing it.
The problem is that there are also lighter elements (like astatine) that decay so fast we can’t make enough at one time to even know what it looks like. Randall Munroe of XKCD gave a google talk where he covered the problems you would have if you tried to assemble all of the elements, and the problems really maximize around the time of astatine, which he described as the element which maximizes the amount of paperwork you’d have to do. The explosion of heat and radiation from a chunk of astatine would be too large to sweep under the rug as a little woopsie, but not large enough to wipe out your whole neighborhood or city so that there would be no one left to submit paperwork to.
(that was the joke, I think)
most don’t, most will just give you poisoning from ingestion (or plain old indigestion), or in off case cancers, but that is not “kill” enough
How was he planning to get Oganesson?
Maybe he was oganessing a solution
Too bad it’s not 1985. I heard in 1985 it would be available in every corner drugstore.
Nope. In 1985, your best bet for plutonium was connections from Libya. A guy named Doc Brown was my hookup, had a really nice DeLorean he was working on for a project of his…
#THE LIBYANS
Going down a Wikipedia Plutonium rabbit hole, I just realized that the Metropolis algorithm was named after a real person.
Dr. Metropolis sounds like a superhero
Spoliers: Dr. Metropolis is revealed to be a villain that was working against the heroes the whole time.
It’s Dr Manhattan at home
Oh shit, this guy is trying to summon captain planet. He can’t be allowed to succeed.
I was importing plutonium for a friend I promise!
IMO if you are willing to go/risk going to jail for some time best reasons are either stealing millions of dollars or murder. Nothing else is quite worth it
I guess the situation truly worthy considering for me would be getting paid millions of dollars for killing someone really and I mean really insufferable. Then I would seriously think about it
A friend of a friend is dating a dude in prison for being a hitman (needless to say she has terrible taste in men and we’ve told her that many times). He apparently accepted $7k to travel across the country to kill someone then travel again to Mexico to collect the payout, meaning probably like $6k all said and done, and all I can think is that’s way less than I ever would have thought one would accept for such a service, especially when I can’t even get a second car key included when buying a car for 2-3x that!
You think it’s too little because you’re not keen on the idea of killing someone in the first place. Would you take the money if instead of murder you just had to go attend a work meeting? Some people treat crimes just as casually as that.
They all think they are so smart and no one will ever find out while leaving traces all over. morons
Why does she date a loser that allowed himself to be catched for years for 6k, ask her. Terrible taste
You don’t date incels of crime but CEOs of crime
Tell her she can date me. I’ll commit a sex crime for her …:)
The fuck makes you think that’s an okay thing to say?
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Rape is never a matter to joke about, and anyone who thinks otherwise is not worth associating with.
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How to get Oganesson
probably spend about billion dollars to make some particle accelerators, or ask some existing lab to let you move all your stuff into there lab, since ognassen would not last for even a second (all nearby elements are basically same in this, ognassen being most stable), so you would have to move your collection to their lab to have a “complete” set
I’ll have multiple particle accelerators that constantly runs as they decay in my basement
Best of luck for the electricity bills
You think i can run particle accelerators from power grid??
I’ll have a nuclear power plant
Ah, stupid me, obviously you have a nuclear reactor, what would you do else with loads on nuclear waste from the accelerators.
One man’s trash is other man’s wealth. Nuclear reactor’s waste can also be in my periodic table collection
I know of a hookup. Meet the Libyans in the Twin Pines Mall parking lot after hours. Be sure to wear a bullet proof vest.
That’s the Lone Pine mall. Some crazy looking car took out the other pine in 1955, no doubt driven by a drunk spaceman!
Old man Peabody owned all of this. He had this crazy idea about breeding Pine Trees…
It’s like half of this is a Back to the Future reference. And the other half I don’t get at all.
This is heavy.
Get it? Where we’re going we won’t need to get it.
I fucking love Event Horizon. It’s so campy, and it’s even better if you imagine it as an unofficial Warhammer 40k movie.
And then he ended up with the Pine twins! Next thing you know, a damn triangle is messing up the space time continuum
Look, I’m sure in the year 1985 you can get plutonium at the local drug store, but in 1955 it’s a bit hard to come by!
I’m not so sure. Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks was quite a read.
He grew up during the blitz & had access to lots of elements. At one point he got to throw 2lbs of sodium off a bridge just to see what happens.I checked & found this in the footnotes:
Although elements 93 and 94, neptunium and plutonium, were created in 1940, their existence was not made public until after the war. They were given provisional names, when they were first made, of “extremium” and “ultimium,” because it was thought impossible that any heavier elements would ever be made.
I try to buy my Mum interesting books for her birthday and Christmas and she always wonders how I find such gems so consistently. My secret - it’s comments like this on Lemmy or the other place, back before the great migration. So thank you - this is going straight on the list! She’ll love it 😊
you should probably run for it, Marty.
This is the metal region, the non metal region, the metalloids are here and over here are the felonies.
They call them noble gasses, but I’ve never seen them owning land or anything that is typical of nobility.
It’s because they don’t do any fucking work
It’s not their fault. They are full and content!
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