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Periodic Table Table Poster Post
TheodoreGray writes to mention his
Artsy Periodic Table Poster. Others here have discovered his Periodic Table Table and his sodium-in-the-lake party. He concludes, "And if I post about posters again, I could be a Periodic Periodic Table Table Poster Poster."
"And if I post about posters again, I could be a Periodic Periodic Table Table Poster Poster."
Ooo.. ooo.. please! Go on! I'm on the edge of my seat here!
(On a side note, HTML really needs a sarcasm tag.)
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Looks like his server has just been blasted by the /. element.
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
...and I think it is now safe to say that you can read more about him here.
This doesn't even PRETEND to be news!
And here we thought it was bad when the editors were posting PR fluff pieces. At least those were DISGUISED ads. This is just a frelling commercial, FFS!
It's very pretty. Nice use of images ..... especially the Noble gases. Even pictures of the scientists after which some of the *cough* harder-to-obtain elements were named! I'm going to order one of the 68x134 ones if they can be shipped to the UK.
If you like this, you'll probably also like Kalzium.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
From TFA:
"After four years of collecting and photographing samples of all the chemical elements, months of struggling to select the very best example of each one, and further months of working on the best possible printing quality, I am pleased to say that you can now buy a copy of my photographic periodic table poster."
Nice work! But I'm really not sure about elements like Rh, Bh, Sg... Are you sure they are the best examples of each element?
Now that we've got Pluto kicked off the list of planets, we can work on getting Cesium kicked off the periodic table.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Great title above this post!
-- Cheers!
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Looks like Unobtanium is all I get when I try to view that table... hey, maybe I should just post my digital artwork as a story too -- at least my server can (supposedly) handle some hits!
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Don't worry, we have plenty of puns in other languages. For example, if this was a Portuguese periodic table, the picture on the Copper element, which has the symbol "Cu" could be a nice ass (cu in Portuguese).
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. On the flip side, I am considering selling sodium on ebay by the pound, and then shipping buyers two pounds of salt. Just think of the free chlorine as an added bonus!
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
I would just like to say in my defense that in the form I submitted the story it wasn't just a shameless plug for my poster. It was a shameful plug disguised with interesting links to the recent Brainiac alkali metal explosions fiasco, which I'm genuinely surprised didn't get any attention on slashdot. Sorry about the server, again. It was supposed to be able to handle it. Unfortunately they have their hands around my bandwidth neck because for some reason our sysadmin department feels it's more important to keep wolfram.com running than my periodic table table site. Where is the appreciation for fine art in this world? If only people would buy my poster, I could afford more bandwidth for sodium explosions. There, now you have a truly shameless plug to complain about.
Before your Perl operator table overlord: http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicT able.html
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Why Cesium? Let's get rid of mercury. I mean, first of all, it's supposed to be a metal, but it's LIQUID at room temperature. It thinks it's so cool, 'cause it's rebelling against its "solid" parents. Secondly, it poisons people. Oh yeah, real nice. Sure, lead can poison us, too, but only if we consume it. If someone tried to consume parts of me I'd poison them, too, but Mercury can just be in the area. Have you touch it. I think it's time to get rid of Hg once and for all, and replace it with something more useful. Like Chocolate. No one ever complains about liquid chocolate, after all.
What is this guy's real name? Major Major Major Major?
"Some disassembly required."
Mirror! so people can see it.
You know, usually when a story's links are slashdotted to death, I can at least make up something half intelligent based on the description.
Something half intelligent is also something half stupid. Maybe you should be glad there were no outright lies/mistakes in the description.
Write boring code, not shiny code!
Actually, the joke works in Italian too. Except we don't have the Saxon Genitive, so articles and prepositions are required. "the periodic table table" is translated as "la tavola della tavola periodica".
Nuffsaid
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Don't know about his cat, but Schroedinger is definitely dead.
" Periodic Table Table Poster Post"
Don't do that! You're going to make dyslexic and other spatially impaired folks go mad!
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
Actually, the atomic weight of chlorine is 35.4527, and the atomic weight of sodium is 22.989768. That being the case, you'll have to ship just over 2.54 pounds of salt in order to ship a pound of sodium.
To be kind, you should also include the disassembly instructions -- "Heat in crucible (sold separately) until molten. Insert suitable electrodes (sold separately) and apply direct current. Collect sodium."
Since it didn't make it onto the "Related Stories" tab, I'll throw the good old Periodic Table Of Comic Books back into the discussion.
Just to keep it all over the table I am related to one of the people responsable for this.
You'd better either explicitly state periodicity and specify period or observe for more than just 1 cycle (peak-to-peak == post-to-post) before calling it periodic.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
As a Chemistry major, I was interested to know that there are more than just one way to explore the properties of the elements. A few examples can be found here: http://www.wou.edu/las/physci/ch412/alttable.htm. I wonder if any of these guys could be made into some type of artwork...
I'd rather kick Plutonium off the periodic table, just for consistency's sake...
Maybe you should have a potassium party someday. When I was a teenager, I did a little pyrotechnic experiment with K. I had a rod about 4 inches long and the width of a half dollar. I decided to take a 5 gallon bucket of water, set it in the middle of our Cul de Sac, cut off a 2 inch chunk, and toss it into the bucket. It took a couple of tosses to get it in from a safe distance. There was fire, a huge amount of water sprayed all over the place and a very destroyed bucket in the end. The majority of the Cul de Sac was covered in a silverish coating. I figured it was Potassium Oxide.
:-( I suppose I should be glad that a stupid thing like that never got anyone hurt.
Later, in my freshman year of college I would put something like the size of a half dollar of potassium on the floor of a dry shower in the dorm. I never did hear back any stories about fire in the shower.
Anyway, if Theo does any other cool experiments, he should post them here. I work at the NCSA @ UIUC not too far from Wolfram. I am always up for interesting pyrotechnics, and I enjoy those Pop Sci experiments from his column.
Finally someone who took the trouble. Thanks! I think Dutch people also don't have the highly developed sense of humour of the French, because although I can see that it's a funny joke I'm still on my chair and far from being a whimpering heap.
-- Cheers!
I obviously posted the comment because I thought it would be modded funny (and because i was frustrated with the story). I'm wondering, does anyone know what (if anything) in the list is actually funny? I'm just curious, as I often see a lot of +5 funnies (my own, included) being modded up w/o any discernible humor value.
/. is the only MMORPG I allow myself to play :)
And why do I post things just for karma? It's because
Come on, people, get with the times!
An interesting anagram of "BANACH TARSKI" is "BANACH TARSKI BANACH TARSKI"
i would like to point out that chemists have been doing these experiments for ages--the difference is that chemists typically don't document the steps and posting them on the web.
a typical experiment (and one that has been repeated many, many times by many different people) is to pull a 1 lb brick of sodium out of a container of mineral oil and toss it into the charles river as you are walking over one of the bridges late at night.
i agree with the other comments about the shameless promotion of products. wrong venue. and since when did it become reasonable to slashdot ones own work/page/poster/anything?