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Title: Report of an "Oopsie!" and a page full of other neat stuff
Post by: vaskidmark on July 25, 2013, 08:19:01 AM

We are going to have to change the definition of unobtainium.  Either that or stop telling people "that can't be done".

http://io9.com/swedish-researchers-create-an-impossible-material-by-880572412

I am hoping they change the name to Spongebobium.

And then I lost a whole lot of time reading about all the other neat stuff.

It is mind-boggling when I consider I was alive when the first working transistor was manufactured and how far things have come since then.  Even stuff like upsalite which was "discovered" because someone made a massive screwup (much like the development of the microwave oven).

stay safe.

Title: Re: Report of an "Oopsie!" and a page full of other neat stuff
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on July 25, 2013, 12:34:10 PM

I like accidental discoveries.  They tend to be the most honest, open ones.

Title: Re: Report of an "Oopsie!" and a page full of other neat stuff
Post by: 230RN on July 26, 2013, 07:21:34 PM

Ever since I caught on (in a layschoolboy's way) to what was going on with a chart of the nuclides, I wondered when someone might find a cheap and easy way to pack enough neutrons into a nucleus to make stable elements beyond uranium.  

(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bordalierinstitute.com%2Fimages%2FchartNuclides.jpg&hash=f85e521ffaef46f8c7ccdff13e13c50c3d860cb1)

Sho' 'nuff we now have "Uu" elements in the periodic table.

And now, Nuclear Sailors, on to the "Island of Stability!"

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Just like from here:

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to here:

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and here:

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And who knows where we could go from the 8088?

Or from a spongey magnesium carbonate?

Terry

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