Six Atoms of Element 117 Produced 213
mr crypto writes "A team of Russian and American scientists has produced six atoms of a new element, number 117, that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The element, still nameless, appears to point the way toward a brew of still more massive elements with chemical properties no one can predict. The researchers say that the discovery bolsters the idea of an 'island of stability' among still heavier elements."
No name yet (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, elements name you
still more... (Score:5, Funny)
"still more massive elements with chemical properties no one can predict."
I bet one of them will look great on the tiara for Mrs. Universe pageants.
Re:No name yet (Score:1, Funny)
Sovietrussianium? Sweet.
Maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No name yet (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No name yet (Score:4, Funny)
Anything is better than Unobtainium.
Re:No name yet (Score:5, Funny)
What is the Russian word for 119 - there may be an interesting name there.
Well I tried to enter it in cyrillic, but I can't bend /. to my will to get it to display. So I'll have to translate it back into English for you:
One Hundred and(*) Nineteen
* The "and" is optional and depends on you locale, so use caution before mocking me
Re:No name yet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No name yet (Score:5, Funny)
Repeatable? (Score:5, Funny)
Pics or it didn't happen, scientists.
Re:still more... (Score:2, Funny)
I'll bet a pound of this stuff weighs a million pounds.
Re:Island of stability (Score:4, Funny)
TFA's statement about these elements lasting days or years is wildly optimistic.
Still, Tiger Woods might be able to have a wedding ring made of it.
Re:Chemical properties (Score:2, Funny)
No stupid it's more complicated than that, that's why lead doesn't act like carbon. DER DUH DER.
Re:No name yet (Score:5, Funny)
Only until the isotope, Walmartium, is discovered.
Re:No name yet (Score:5, Funny)
Nope, it's Unobtainium. **THEY** have the 6 atoms of it, not you or I. Go ahead, try to get a sample, I dare you.
It's another instance of the man keeping us common folks down.
At least they didn't make a black hole with it this time. Just think about it. What's a black hole? It's a super dense object, which attracts objects towards it, which in turn are crushed under it's gravitational attraction, adding to it's mass in an unstoppable chain reaction. All it takes is one atom, and poof, we're all screwed. And they're trying for heavier and heavier atoms. It's the damned Reds. I tell you, they're looking to destroy the world! They're going to do it, and this time we're helping them! It's the Reds and the Republicans! They're going to kill us all! KILL US ALL I TELL YOU!
This time even your tinfoil hat won't help! There's no escape! There's only one thing to do. Send me all of your worldly possessions, and pray to god that there is a god, and your soul can escape!
Re:still more... (Score:5, Funny)
Dude.
#1) This is why your still single.
and
#2) The obligatory xkcd to explain it to you. [xkcd.com]
Re:Chemical properties (Score:5, Funny)
Except for the fact that it's wildly hallucinogenic. That's why it took a few months for them to report it. What didn't officially come out was this:
"We were all tripping so hard, somehow we ended up naked, running around in the lab apparently for like two days. No one remembers a thing, but the technicians that found us said we were laughing our asses off and talking to non-existent creatures in the room."
It's always embarrassing when something like that comes out.
Names (Score:5, Funny)
Name ideas:
- Yetanotherium
- Unremarkablum
- Irrelevantium
- Onehundredseventeenium
- Instantlydecaysium
Re:still more... (Score:4, Funny)
How dare you, sir! Blue catgirls on flying dinosaurs fighting Nick Fury's Helicarrier and a squadron of Space Marines is very serious business indeed!
Re:Maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to have to vote for Bradium because The Brady Bunch ran for 117 episodes. Moreover, they've made 6 actual particles, so they knew that it was much more than a hunch ... that this group would somehow form a family ...
Re:No name yet (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia the government decides how many atoms to make
In the United States, the many Adams decided how to make the government
Re:still more... (Score:3, Funny)
Nick Fury? I thought they'd cast Duke Nukem, myself. I hear he's looking for work, after all...
Re:No name yet (Score:1, Funny)
Go ahead, try to get a sample, I dare you.
I have a bunch of the stuff right here!
They're only slightly used, however, and some of the elementary particles appear to have fallen off, but I can provide replacements as long as you are willing to do the work of putting them back together.
They can be yours, for FREE, just ACT NOW! (S&H $19.99 US only)
And if you order in the next 10 minutes, I'll throw in a second do-it-yourself kit, which contains 100 (unassembled) atoms for FREE!
Re:No name yet (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No name yet (Score:2, Funny)
What's a black hole? It's a super dense object, which attracts objects towards it, which in turn are crushed under it's gravitational attraction, adding to it's mass in an unstoppable chain reaction. All it takes is one atom, and poof, we're all screwed.
Much like your mother.