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Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element
koavf writes "More than a decade after experiments first produced a single atom of 'super-heavy' element 112, a team of German scientists has been credited with its discovery, but it has yet to be named. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has temporarily named the element ununbium, as 'ununbi' means 'one one two' in Latin; but the team now has the task of proposing its official name." Slashdotium? Taconium? Man, I shoulda gone into science so I could have named something sweet that kids have to memorize in classes.
Colbertium
Illudium
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"Open source is good." - Steve Jobs
"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
Unobtainium
They've found the Jumbonium that I've misplaced!
Upsidaisium. Or wonderflonium.
We've just received word that the Oval Office has mandated the new element be called "Obamanium." That whole voting thing is so-o-o-o-o-o 2008 Democratic Republic...
It's going to be something like: BankofAmericaElementium
The most useful element.
hypnotoadium
Why dont you say what you really mean?
Fine, I'm a little bit better than the rest of you slackers.
Happy now?
"Element formerly known as ununb"i. And give it some funky symbol
rewriting history since 2109
Dubyum?
reallyfuckingheavium
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
in a large hall previously devoted to gymnastics
so i propose gymnasium, auditorium, or symposium
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
In the early days of nuke research, a number of physicists picked up dosages of plutonium that worried the AEC, so it instituted a program of measuring the Pu content of their urine once a year ad infinitum and monitoring for health effects. Those people refer to themselves as the IPPU Club...
rj
Lehrerium!
Cheers, Peter, W2IRT
Sure, the atom is a tad underpowered, but they should be able to run half-life.
Hundredandtwelvium
isn't it obvious?
Tiberium!
Now its just a matter of time before the rise of nod.
You speak London? I speak London very best.
No it's 0118 999 881 999 119 7253
In that case it's quite clear what to call it: Anonymium
too long. How about Hernium?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Didn't they discover the coke bottle too? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/
Watch it!! This isn't a Serious Screenplay.
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
yourmomium?
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
So basically, coffee and beer.
I thought Plutonium no longer was an element...
But would they have to pronounce it "Frahnkensteenium"?
And why not "igorium"?
"It's pronounce 'eyegorium'!"
By the taping of my glasses, something geeky this way passes
tagging for the above post:
pimpmyjournal
Steve's journal will have 35" dubs and ladder-bar rear end, for sure. :)
Ladder bar, as in extension ladder welded in, cross-braced with 2x4.
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February 9th, 2009 8:55pm: Slashdot becomes self-aware.