Look, I’m sure in the year 1985 you can get plutonium at the local drug store, but in 1955 it’s a bit hard to come by!
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disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I know of a hookup. Meet the Libyans in the Twin Pines mall. Be sure to wear a bullet proof vest.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 6 days ago
prex@aussie.zone 5 days ago
I’m not so sure. Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks was quite a read.
He grew up during the blitz & had access to lots of elements. At one point he got to throw 2lbs of sodium off a bridge just to see what happens.prex@aussie.zone 5 days ago
I checked & found this in the footnotes:
Although elements 93 and 94, neptunium and plutonium, were created in 1940, their existence was not made public until after the war. They were given provisional names, when they were first made, of “extremium” and “ultimium,” because it was thought impossible that any heavier elements would ever be made.
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I try to buy my Mum interesting books for her birthday and Christmas and she always wonders how I find such gems so consistently. My secret - it’s comments like this on Lemmy or the other place, back before the great migration. So thank you - this is going straight on the list! She’ll love it 😊
AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 days ago
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 days ago
you should probably run for it, Marty.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That’s the Lone Pine mall. Some crazy beast destroyed the second Pune back in 1885
AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Old man Peabody owned all of this. He had this crazy idea about breeding Pine Trees…
jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
It’s like half of this is a Back to the Future reference. And the other half I don’t get at all.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
This is heavy.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Get it? Where we’re going we won’t need to get it.
Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
And then he ended up with the Pine twins! Next thing you know, a damn triangle is messing up the space time continuum