Seaborgium's New Neighbors

[HugoZ]

Please welcome the newest additions to the Jeopardy! Periodic Table Study Sheet:

110 - Darmstadtium, 111 - Roentgenium, and 112 - Copernicium

Feel free to swing by and say hello (though you might not catch them, they never seem to be at home for long).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/scien ... .html?_r=1

[dhkendall]

Please welcome the newest additions to the Jeopardy! Periodic Table Study Sheet:

110 - Darmstadtium, 111 - Roentgenium, and 112 - Copernicium

Feel free to swing by and say hello (though you might not catch them, they never seem to be at home for long).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/scien ... .html?_r=1

Hmmm, I've known about them for quite a while (they're one of the first I go to on Sporcle quizzes. The New York Times must get the news on new elements almost as slow as Harvard does (Tom Lehr reference)

[HugoZ]

Please welcome the newest additions to the Jeopardy! Periodic Table Study Sheet:

110 - Darmstadtium, 111 - Roentgenium, and 112 - Copernicium

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/scien ... .html?_r=1

Hmmm, I've known about them for quite a while (they're one of the first I go to on Sporcle quizzes. The New York Times must get the news on new elements almost as slow as Harvard does (Tom Lehr reference)

The periodic table image that shows up in my screen saver from time to time has their generic names:

110 - Uun - Ununnillium
111 - Uuu - Unununium
112 - Uub - Ununbium
and
114 - Uuq - Ununquadium

[Turd Ferguson]

Please welcome the newest additions to the Jeopardy! Periodic Table Study Sheet:

110 - Darmstadtium, 111 - Roentgenium, and 112 - Copernicium

Feel free to swing by and say hello (though you might not catch them, they never seem to be at home for long).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/scien ... .html?_r=1

Hmmm, I've known about them for quite a while (they're one of the first I go to on Sporcle quizzes. The New York Times must get the news on new elements almost as slow as Harvard does (Tom Lehr reference)

I knew I'd heard Copernecium somewhere... Final Jeopardy! - http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3475

Oh, and thanks, Seaborgium, we got a question at Pub Quiz a few weeks ago thanks entirely to your handle. (We had to identify, in a photo, a man pointing at Sg on the periodic table. I don't think any of the other teams got it... I would have had no clue otherwise)

[HugoZ]

I knew I'd heard Copernecium somewhere... Final Jeopardy! - http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3475

Now I know why this was sounding a little familiar. I'm sure there was a discussion on that game's J!Board thread.

Apparently when the NYT said that IUPAP gave them names "on Friday", they meant "on Friday sometime last year".

[alietr]

Oh, and thanks, Seaborgium, we got a question at Pub Quiz a few weeks ago thanks entirely to your handle. (We had to identify, in a photo, a man pointing at Sg on the periodic table. I don't think any of the other teams got it... I would have had no clue otherwise)

They showed Stefan?!?!?

[reddpen]

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I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty.

[Turd Ferguson]

Oh, and thanks, Seaborgium, we got a question at Pub Quiz a few weeks ago thanks entirely to your handle. (We had to identify, in a photo, a man pointing at Sg on the periodic table. I don't think any of the other teams got it... I would have had no clue otherwise)

They showed Stefan?!?!?

Heh, it was actually Seaborg. (It's the first picture in this article - http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Arc ... ibute.html) I had never seen a picture of him before, but "guessed" that only Seaborg himself would have had such a photo taken of him. I don't think anyone else in the room had any clue who Seaborg was -- I certainly wouldn't have, if not for Stefan's handle.

[Paucle]

Apparently when the NYT said that IUPAP gave them names "on Friday", they meant "on Friday sometime last year".

or perhaps they meant they were riding a horse named Friday?

Heh, it was actually Seaborg.

Seaborg? Seaborg assimilate. Assimilate, Borg, assimilate!

[seaborgium]

Last year I was testing Call of Duty: Black Ops. One of the cut scenes showed a periodic table. I wrote a bug report saying that with the elements shown, the table dated from around 2003, an anachronism with the game's Cold War setting. They opted not to fix it, since the cut scenes were pretty well set in stone by that point.

[HugoZ]

Oh, and thanks, Seaborgium, we got a question at Pub Quiz a few weeks ago thanks entirely to your handle. (We had to identify, in a photo, a man pointing at Sg on the periodic table. I don't think any of the other teams got it... I would have had no clue otherwise)

They showed Stefan?!?!?

That's what I was thinking too. That's one hardcore Pub Quiz that Turd plays.

[Samer]

Feh. Physicists are just late to the party.

We chemists got around to that years ago.

[Woof]

Veering just slightly off-topic, this crowd might enjoy the customer reviews from folks looking to buy uranium ore on Amazon.com. A sample from Patrick J. McGovern, Procrastinating Evil Scientist (Hollowed Out Volcano Lair):

I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty.

Too rich, Bill! It's also well worth checking out the other products sold by Images SI. The UFO-01 detector has made it onto my Xmas wish list.

[boson]

Veering just slightly off-topic, this crowd might enjoy the customer reviews from folks looking to buy uranium ore on Amazon.com. A sample from Patrick J. McGovern, Procrastinating Evil Scientist (Hollowed Out Volcano Lair):

I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty.

Too rich, Bill! It's also well worth checking out the other products sold by Images SI. The UFO-01 detector has made it onto my Xmas wish list.

Don't do it Woof! Read the reviews.

[RCraig]

Last year I was testing Call of Duty: Black Ops. One of the cut scenes showed a periodic table. I wrote a bug report saying that with the elements shown, the table dated from around 2003, an anachronism with the game's Cold War setting. They opted not to fix it, since the cut scenes were pretty well set in stone by that point.

awesome.