Slashdot Mirror
It's All About the Ununpentium
spitefulcrow writes "The New York Times is reporting that elements 113 and 115 have been created by a joint team of Russian and American scientists. The temporary names are ununtrium and ununpentium until the experiment has been duplicated and verified in another lab. According to the article, speculation has been made that 'Rather than being round, nuclei in that region and beyond could contain bubbles and have strange doughnut-like shapes'."
mmmmmm....mini-doughnuts..
-B
Mmmmm... Forbidden ununpentium....
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
I'm sure there will be a movie about it. Bruce Willis the cab-driver and his girlfriend who wears nothing but ductape, all over again.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
...but when are we going to have the ununceleron, ununathlon, ununopteron & ununitanium?
-- Power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
Cuz if it is
Laboratory tests prove the new element can't divide or multiply.
Unless then meant that Macs are the UnPentium. In which case the above still holds. :)
You are not the customer.
That's not a new element, that's an old Intel chip!
Can Intel now sue Mendeleev for trademark violation?
This will be a black mark on the physics community for sure...
I for one salute our science community. Keep up the good work folks.
The science community thanks you for your support. We are currently accepting cash donations.
Virgil:All right, then. For half a million dollars, which of the following is not a subatomic particle? ... well, I was born in Indiana, so that ain't it. And, uh, hmmm ... I'd better call my lifeline.
...
Moe:Oy.
Virgil:
A) Proton
B) Neutron
C) Bonbon, or
D) Electron
Moe:Oh, boy. All right, let's see here, uh
Homer:Well, it all starts when a nulicule comes out of its nest.
Lisa:[taking the phone] The answer is "bonbon!"
Moe:Uh, I'm going to say, "bonbon."
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
The ununpentium: Element number 114.9999659899937582.
Tom Geller
We're looking for a stable heavy element. My question is, "Why?"
I mean, as if things weren't already fucked up enough, we actually have people working to bring into this world something which has never existed. And the consequences? Apparently nobody gives a shit.
Haven't these guys ever played DOOM? Or watched Event Horizon? I'd feel a lot safer if their creativity was tinged with a healthy dose of fear.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
The only thing that girl's bandagewear could have possibly protected against was an NC-17 rating.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
According to the article, speculation has been made that 'Rather than being round, nuclei in that region and beyond could contain bubbles and have strange doughnut-like shapes'.
Containing bubbles and doughnut-like shapes? I say they should be called Duffium and Homerium.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
I thought the scientists had lost count and just called it umpteenium.
I will always call element 115 Elerium.
FRA: STFU GTFO
I misread it as unimportium, which seems to fit for these type of elements.
Today I didn't even have to use my AK; I got to say it was a good day -- Icecube
i for one support our new science community overlords.
If the article is right about them being strangely shaped
Doughnut-shaped stuff will be THE SHIT in the coming years. I mean, if you closely follow some of the last releases from the so called science community, you start to notice a pattern:
Scientist: I've found out something new about how the universe works!
People: Oh, well. How great for you.
Scientist: And, uh, it might by doughnut-shaped!
People: Aaaahhhhh! Oooooohhh!
Scientist: I've found a new element!
People: Big deal.
Scientist: And its nucleus might be doughnut-shaped or something!
People: Aaaahhhhh! Oooooohhh!
I was going to attempt a witty remark about Unintel Inside, but couldn't pull it off...
PepperHacks - Hacking the Pepper Pad
I wonder if the new chemical elements have coffee cup electron orbitals to go with their doughnut nuclei.
There's probably a perfectly simple way to make superheavy elements, too. We just need to get the quarks and the gluons into separate bottles, then just weigh the ingredients and get out the Magimix. All this colliding heavy nuclei at high speed may look good and make for big budgets, but all real progress is made with test tubes and Bunsen burners.
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
It's called an Athlon.
Cheaper anti-matter? Where are you buying yours from that it's so expensive? I get mine wholesale at rockbottom prices. Shop around.
1000000 BC: Ug, rock rock *BAM* *BAM* ug!
2004 AD: Ug, nucleon nucleon *BAM* *BAM* ug!
siggy played guitar
I thought it was supposed to be called:
Unobtainium
or
Reallyexpensium
"To allow us to continue colliding atomic nuclei at high speeds, please click the PayPal link below."
Intel has their lawyers on standby, waiting to file a trademark infringement suit.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.