This is the metal region, the non metal region, the mettaloids and over here are the felonies.
ONE OF US
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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
They call them noble gasses, but I’ve never seen them owning land or anything that is typical of nobility.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
It’s because they don’t do any fucking work
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re called noble gasses because they don’t do anything.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
pretty sure… there’s nothing illegal about buying plutonium for a elements collection. Pretty sure, also there’s a lab supply somewhere in australia that keeps the samples in stock.
Also pretty the russians are having a pretty decent sale on polonium, if you’re looking for that.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Australia has a treaty that says ALL plutonium in the country must be documented and accounted for. The country is not allowed more than 1KG in total
treadful@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The country is not allowed more than 1KG in total
How does that work?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Doesn’t make it illegal.
Just, eh, “complicated”.
Is it stupid to want that stuff in your home? Certainly not without lead condoms. Is it something I’m offended at the government wanting to scoop up? Certainly not.
Did the guy deserve full on hazmat?
Well, I’d probably have pulled out the full containment tent and taken a lot of selfies riffing off the E.T. Movies, but I’m a weirdo.
They could have probably played it cool and that would have been better.
Cort@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Probably depends on how much they tried to import. 1mg is probably no big deal, but 1Mg would be.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Out of curiosity and for strictly not-remotely-nefarious reasons, how expensive would a megagram be?
I assume they just bought Ike, a centimeter cube of the stuff. (Which is a common thing for this kind of collector. Most solids come in centimeter cubes if they’re not particularly spicy.)
ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 months ago
1mg is still strictly illegal as you need an import permit, permit to posess, a valid reason and the entire country as a whole is not allowed more than a total of 1KG
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Well that’s stupid. In a couple of billion years he’ll have to get more!
sga@lemmings.world 2 months ago
if he had astatine, more like 20 mins
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Wake me up when he has his vial of Francium ready.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 months ago
God forbid men have hobbies smdh
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest.
silverlightBeing@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
But what is the charge? Collecting the elements of a succulent periodic table?
libra00@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have to assume he’s working backwards, because if he’d gotten to Astatine we’d know.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I doubt he’s working backwards. Those heavier elements decade before you get halfway through blinking. And most of them kill while doing it.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
(that was the joke, I think)
libra00@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The problem is that there are also lighter elements (like astatine) that decay so fast we can’t make enough at one time to even know what it looks like. Randall Munroe of XKCD gave a google talk where he covered the problems you would have if you tried to assemble all of the elements, and the problems really maximize around the time of astatine, which he described as the element which maximizes the amount of paperwork you’d have to do. The explosion of heat and radiation from a chunk of astatine would be too large to sweep under the rug as a little woopsie, but not large enough to wipe out your whole neighborhood or city so that there would be no one left to submit paperwork to.
sga@lemmings.world 2 months ago
most don’t, most will just give you poisoning from ingestion (or plain old indigestion), or in off case cancers, but that is not “kill” enough
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Here is how you get your hands on plutonium legally.
In both cases it may still be illegal to smuggle into the country and therefor you will need a local supplier after obtaining the proper license. The easiest and least harmful would likely be an ore containing trace amounts of a safer isotope. For higher purity you would need a refined product likely only available at government facilities and contractors.
Ever since the Nuclear Boyscout incident it’s been a lot harder to obtain radioactive elements without tons of paperwork and red tape, and for good reasons.
In Australia:
Permit to Possess Nuclear Material LINK HERE
in the USA:
Get a certificate to use depleted uranium under a general license LINK HERE
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This nerd did nothing wrong, now they’re training him to be a hardened criminal
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 months ago
How was he planning to get Oganesson?
ziggurat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe he was oganessing a solution
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Too bad it’s not 1985. I heard in 1985 it would be available in every corner drugstore.
TheFudd@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nope. In 1985, your best bet for plutonium was connections from Libya. A guy named Doc Brown was my hookup, had a really nice DeLorean he was working on for a project of his…
cyphear@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
#THE LIBYANS
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
They arrested this century’s Oppenheimer but they won’t arrest the CEOs of oil companies? The hypocrisy on display!
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Going down a Wikipedia Plutonium rabbit hole, I just realized that the Metropolis algorithm was named after a real person.
Stamau123@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dr. Metropolis sounds like a superhero
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Spoliers: Dr. Metropolis is revealed to be a villain that was working against the heroes the whole time.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s Dr Manhattan at home
Emmie@lemm.ee 2 months ago
IMO if you need to go to jail best bet is either millions of dollars or murder
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 months ago
A friend of a friend is dating a dude in prison for being a hitman (needless to say she has terrible taste in men and we’ve told her that many times). He apparently accepted $7k to travel across the country to kill someone then travel again to Mexico to called the payout, meaning probably like $6k all said and done, and all I can think is that’s way less than I ever would have thought one would accept for such a service, especially when I can’t even get a second car key included when buying a car for 2-3x that!
Emmie@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They all think they are so smart and no one will ever find out
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
You think it’s too little because you’re not keen on the idea of killing someone in the first place. Would you take the money if instead of murder you just had to go attend a work meeting? Some people treat crimes just as casually as that.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Oh shit, this guy is trying to summon captain planet. He can’t be allowed to succeed.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was importing plutonium for a friend I promise!
pageflight@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tonyn@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It’s Discontinued. Dang.
nodiratime@lemmy.world 2 months ago
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
How to get Oganesson
sga@lemmings.world 2 months ago
probably spend about billion dollars to make some particle accelerators, or ask some existing lab to let you move all your stuff into there lab, since ognassen would not last for even a second (all nearby elements are basically same in this, ognassen being most stable), so you would have to move your collection to their lab to have a “complete” set
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I’ll have multiple particle accelerators that constantly runs as they decay in my basement
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know of a hookup. Meet the Libyans in the Twin Pines mall. Be sure to wear a bullet proof vest.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s the Lone Pine mall. Some crazy beast destroyed the second Pune back in 1885
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Old man Peabody owned all of this. He had this crazy idea about breeding Pine Trees…
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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!
prex@aussie.zone 2 months 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.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
you should probably run for it, Marty.