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Element 110 Now Darmstadtium

photoblur writes "It's time to update your periodic table of the elements! Element 110 has been officially named 'darmstadtium' (Ds), after the GSI lab in Darmstadt, Germany. The GSI lab has also been officially recognized for discovering element 111."

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  1. Wondeful... by Cyno01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think i'll go play a game of half life to celebrate.:p

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  2. population: tire by cloudship_tacitus · · Score: 3, Funny

    i will not rest until the naming of strongbadium, an element in the burninating gasses.

  3. Re:Name of Element 111 by FileNotFound · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think "Nobodycaresanymoreium" would be a great name for element 111.

    I mean seriously, how many samples of 111 exist in non lab enviroments? For how long?

    I am confused by the purpose behind this research...seems like one of those "because we can" things.

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  4. Element: Slashdotium found by phunhippy · · Score: 3, Funny

    The IETF has just announced discovery of the 31337th element named Slashdotium. This new element has perplexed engineers for many years now as it seems to simply appear out of nowhere and bring poor websites to their very knee's then dissapearing just as fast. Even stranger is the occasional apparent repeats that happen once in a while. Engineers theorize that the Slashdotium element hits some web sites twice at a rate of about 1 in 9. They are still trying to find out what is causing the repeated appearence of Slashdotium to the same site twice and one radical engineer believes its related to the element dumbasseditorium.

  5. Curse you Darmstadtium! by Kenja · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now the periodic table I have tattooed on my arm is WORTHLESS!

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