Scientist: Finds the most useless element.
Also scientist: Names it after France 💀💀
there are worse hills to die on
Submitted 8 months ago by immortal_crab@lemmy.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 8 months ago
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Well, they already got Gallium.
nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Gallium explodes people who call it a stupid element. (it used in the plutonium pits of atomic bombs)
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The end reads like a bad Amazon review or something and it cracks me up.
Absolute dogshit isotope and its synthetic siblings are just the same but worse
1/5 stars
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I’ll probably remember francium forever now, so there’s that.
suodrazah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Francium has been one of my favourite elements since before I was a teenager, I’m 35 and this hasn’t changed…this person needs to learn to have fun.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think they did have fun writing this edit. 😄
voracitude@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well I’m convinced of the position, should I go get the pitchforks?
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Unfortunately the pitchforks were made out of Francium and they vaporized and cooked everyone.
maculata@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Could someone please explain the “he (the genie) would just give it to you” part?
This aside has me curious about motivations etc.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I think the joke is that he doesn’t have to monkey’s paw the wish at all to screw you over for wishing for it
maculata@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Thanks.
affiliate@lemmy.world 8 months ago
my interpretation of it is: when you ask a genie for something they’ll give it to you, but with a nasty twist. e.g., if you ask for a lot of money they’ll say okay, then give you the money, and then tell you it’s all marked notes from a recent bank robbery or something.
but since this element is so stupid, there’s no twist necessary. the element itself is the nasty surprise.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 8 months ago
when you ask a genie for something they’ll give it to you, but with a nasty twist
And if I remember correctly, it’s about asking a wish with precise, thoughtful phrasing, or it’s going to backfire.
“Your wish is my command.”
“I don’t want to see my mother-in-law ever again.”
Boom! Makes him blind.Carlo@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
That part didn’t make sense to me, either, but my brain kind of elided it until I saw these comments. You’re right, it’s gotta be a genie that was created by a wish with a monkey’s paw. That brings up another question: do monkeys even have paws? A quick search indicates that they have, as I suspected, hands and feet! I blame W.W. Jacobs for this. Did the guy ever even see a monkey? I’m finding this hard to establish.
Further bulletins as events warrant.
maculata@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Oh I see. I never associated monkey’s paw type twists with the genie tale. Perhaps I need to re-read the source myths.
frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 8 months ago
Nah they’re right though. The fact that it was named after France is an abomination in the first place, but naming such a dogwater-userless element after France? It literally sounds like this isotope was only made to make a ‘can’t last 30 minutes’ joke about the French.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Isn’t it also one of those salt elements that just explodes instantly if it contacts water?
Verxiq@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
It is indeed in the alkali metal group
yamanii@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How did we even study it if it decays in less than an hour?
acetanilide@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Study it in 45 minutes
shneancy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
a half life of 30min, doesn’t mean there won’t be anything left after 60min. After 60min there will be a half of the half left over, and after 90min - half of the half of the half, and so on
nifty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe they knew someone named Francis?
xkforce@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’re not wrong.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 8 months ago
Wikipedia's hall of fame of stupid edit wars has some pretty entertaining sections.
Mohaim@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Don’t forget about the heated argument on a bodybuilding forum about how many days are in a week
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 8 months ago
This is my favorite thing that's happened to me all day and I had a nice pork chop this morning 😃
I laughed out loud many times on the first page and then I got to the bottom with the pagination showing God only knows how many more pages of it continuing, and completely busted out laughing. I want to give them all a warm cup of tea and a cookie each and tell them it's gonna be okay.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 8 months ago
This is glorious
affiliate@lemmy.world 8 months ago
most wikipedia thing ever to start the joke page with a link to the article defining “humor”.
spookex@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That really was entertaining
henfredemars@infosec.pub 8 months ago
This was hilarious. Thank you for the read.
Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
This link was a morning ruining rabbit hole.
strawberry@kbin.run 8 months ago
that's beautiful. thank you