Nature’s Sudoku Nearly Complete - Scientists Have Filled The Seventh Row Of The Periodic Table
...Beginning to think I should have chosen the Humor category for this one! :)
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Mustn't let the Russian and US scientists get all the honors. Tax their discoveries at 25% and give it to the Asian scientists because they have never been honored.
F$%^ing Socialist Politics, NOT science!
The naming process struck me as absurd.
back to the science.....
I had that kind of socialist "logic" applied to my modest (but hard fought and earned) accomplishments in high school.
Guess the wound from that lesson in socialism hasn't healed completely, and never will.
Reason did a piece years ago on a scientist who had been blackballed by EPA and his career destroyed for suggesting that the low pH (acid content) of lakes in New England might be the result of acidic soils rather than acid rain. I have no doubt whatever that they have doubled down when it comes to climate change. Rand predicted it perfectly, and EPA is the State Science Institute.
For what it's worth, though, funding "pure" research in a non-mooching world would be a hard problem economically, because its benefits are hard to limit to just the people who paid for them.
Yes, North America DID exist... had been 'created' long before Columbus knew what salt spray in the face felt like, but Never Having Seen It Before, for HIM, and many Europeans, it was Definitely a Discovery... seeing something that had been there (maybe for a very long time,) but not having been seen by certain groups (even tho Columbus wasn't the first to set foot there... for Him and His Buddies, it certainly WAS a 'discovery.'
Now, as to the 'new elements,' odds are damned good that few, if any of them HAD existed prior to their atom-smashing Creation, and since they decayed so quickly after 'creation,' odds are even better that there Were No Such Examples of those Elements around for Anyone To Notice (i.e., discover) ever before. They were nearly simultaneously created and discovered at the same time, if you want to stretch things a little. But the Creation came first, then the detection to prove they actually existed, so someone could say they 'discovered' 'em.
Please be more careful with logic and words.
Thanks.... no, not you gg... the other guys.
Kobayashium, Obamium, Putinium, and Imperium. At least until they realize the results of the discoveries were flawed, and they actually ended up with elements 121, 122, 126, and 134.
Then again, I understand North Korea claims that the world acknowledges their unparalleled success at discovery of all the elements above 109 on the Table... that's why they all begin with "Un..."
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I was thinking that it was magic. -- j
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Thanks, but I'm much more interested in subatomic particles.
And the date of the publication was April 17, 2006.
Case Closiummed... :)
Good pun!
I've become rather cynical in my old age.
When asked, "What is Avogadro's Number?" one fellow answered, "3×10 to the eighth." Smack! The same question went to the guy seated next to the slacker. "6.02×10 to the 23rd." The teacher said, "Right." The slacker said, "Oh, that was my second choice." That got him another smack, to which he responded, "I deserved it."
Which gas law relates pressure and temperature of a gas? The girl who responded, "It's that Gay guy!" would have been smacked, but everyone, including the teacher, was laughing too hard.
[That pressure and temperature vary directly is Gay-Lussac's Law after French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac.]