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Grey Fox

#38295
April 10, 2014, 11:09:18 AM
Someone needs to discover 117.
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garbon

#38296
April 10, 2014, 11:15:27 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on April 10, 2014, 11:09:18 AM
Someone needs to discover 117.

QuoteIts discovery was first announced in 2010—synthesis was claimed in Dubna, Russia, by a joint Russian-American collaboration, thus making it the most recently discovered element. Another experiment in 2011 created one of its daughter isotopes directly, partially confirming the results of the discovery experiment, and the original experiment was repeated successfully in 2012. However, the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party (JWP), which is in charge of examining claims of discovery of superheavy elements, has made no comment yet on whether the element can be recognized as discovered. Once it is so recognized, it may receive a permanent name which will be suggested for the element by its discoverers; "ununseptium" is a temporary systematic element name that is intended to be used before a permanent one is established. It is commonly called "element 117" by researchers and in the literature instead of "ununseptium".
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Syt

#38297
April 10, 2014, 11:26:11 AM
I was surprised the other day when I looked at a periodic table a bit closer for the first time since I had science classes at school (ca. 20 years ago), to find that quite a few items have been added in the meantime. Though the new nomenclature is boring and sucks.
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Grey Fox

#38298
April 10, 2014, 11:27:02 AM
That's funny OneOneSevenium.
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Syt

#38299
April 10, 2014, 11:29:25 AM
Fits in with Ununoctium, Ununpentium, Ununtrium, ...
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
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The Brain

#38300
April 10, 2014, 12:29:01 PM
Quote from: derspiess on April 10, 2014, 10:17:21 AM
That table is racist for not recognizing the achievements of non-Europeans.

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Malthus

#38301
April 10, 2014, 05:19:36 PM
The wife of a computer programmer asks him to pick up a loaf of bread at a local store. She says that if they have fresh eggs to pick up a dozen.

The computer programmer brings home a dozen loaves of bread.
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garbon

#38302
April 10, 2014, 05:22:04 PM
How did the wife not already know that her husband is lame?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

mongers

#38303
April 10, 2014, 05:28:24 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 10, 2014, 12:29:01 PM
Quote from: derspiess on April 10, 2014, 10:17:21 AM
That table is racist for not recognizing the achievements of non-Europeans.

I'm sorry that your country is a loser country.

No need to be boastful, just because each day you rediscover half a dozen of those in the crutch of your works overalls. 
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11B4V

#38304
April 10, 2014, 06:14:25 PM
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Hillary Clinton Has to Duck a Shoe During Speech


(Newser) – Hillary Clinton had to be fast on her feet during a speech in Las Vegas today. A woman in the audience chucked a shoe that whizzed past her head, reports the Las Vegas Sun. "Good thing she didn't play softball like I did," said Clinton, drawing laughter. The unidentified woman apparently threw a stack of papers, too, before being escorted from the convention to face arrest, reports the Review-Journal. Clinton was speaking before the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, and the woman wasn't part of the convention, says a spokesperson. It's unclear at this point what prompted her protest. "My goodness, I didn't know that solid waste management was so controversial," said Clinton.


http://www.newser.com/story/185159/hillary-clinton-has-to-duck-a-shoe-during-speech.html

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#38305
April 10, 2014, 06:24:20 PM
Quote from: Syt on April 10, 2014, 11:26:11 AM
I was surprised the other day when I looked at a periodic table a bit closer for the first time since I had science classes at school (ca. 20 years ago), to find that quite a few items have been added in the meantime. Though the new nomenclature is boring and sucks.

haven't seen one in 30 years. What's different?
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Eddie Teach

#38306
April 10, 2014, 06:56:46 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 10, 2014, 05:22:04 PM
How did the wife not already know that her husband is lame?

Maybe they're newlyweds.
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jimmy olsen

#38307
April 10, 2014, 06:59:42 PM
The programer is Indian, it was an arranged marriage. :yes:
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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
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Ideologue

#38308
April 10, 2014, 07:54:42 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 10, 2014, 05:19:36 PM
The wife of a computer programmer asks him to pick up a loaf of bread at a local store. She says that if they have fresh eggs to pick up a dozen.

The computer programmer brings home a dozen loaves of bread.
Heh. ^_^
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Capetan Mihali

#38309
April 10, 2014, 08:06:57 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 10, 2014, 06:59:42 PM
The programer is Indian, it was an arranged marriage. :yes:

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