Not Entirely Cost Effective
The team behind this discovery… used a unique way to create gold. Instead of crashing lead atoms head-on, they looked at what happens when the atoms just barely miss each other. Researchers explained that when this happens, powerful electromagnetic fields around the atoms can cause them to change into different elements.
The machine can create about 89,000 gold atoms every second,
I know, I know. We’ll be glittering beings, richer than God, with hats and shoes and mattresses all made of gold.
Ah. Bugger.
And I suppose there’s the small matter of the electricity bill, running costs, maintenance, staffing, and so forth. Roughly $1 billion a year.
You may resume your dreary, humdrum lives, with mattresses made of foam rubber, springs, and polyester.
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I did chuckle at the article’s use of the image below, which rather exaggerates the quantity of gold actually produced.
These transmutation efforts are, we’re told, “still far from practical use.”
I was looking forward to the solid gold shoes.
Keep your mind out of his uterus.
And in airbrushing reality news.
Is reality optional now?
Keep your mind out of his uterus.
OK, the scar is too high to be a Pfannenstiel, but the dimpled bit on his right is about McBurney’s point, so either the worst appendectomy scar or worst faux uterus transplant?
Meanwhile, a racist walks among us.
Is reality optional now?
Apparently. I can’t tell is this is an elaborate piss take, but if not, at least they have your health in mind.
¡NSFW and you might want to use a VPN!
OTOH, the But [sic] Plug Olympics, Strap On Party, and other things are just peachy.
If you can’t make an event at Camp Crinkle, put this one on your calendar.
Health regulations require that genitals, including buttocks, be covered in the meal tent.
Good to know, I guess.
I’m going to need a moment to process that one.
[ Brings out tray of fatigued-looking sandwiches, checks clientele for regulation buttock-coverings. ]
Unstable isotopes, and thus radioactive. Money that really would burn a hole in your pocket.
And each of those fantastically expensive atoms of gold winks out of existence about as close to immediately as it’s possible to get, which rather dashes those hopes of solid gold shoes.
There, there.
Having consulted Grok, I have news that may be relevant.
It turns out that a typical gentleman’s wedding ring of pure gold would weigh around seven grammes and would contain somewhere in the region of 2.14 × 10²² gold atoms. Which would take the LHC about 7.6 billion years to generate, at current rates, assuming some way were found to prevent the gold atoms from winking out of existence before you could store them in a shoe box.
Mr. F Muldoon cautions:
I used to worry that the Rainbow Mafia’s refusal to police its own would result in an overly severe backlash.
I’m starting to contemplate the idea that a backlash, no matter how severe, might not be strong enough.
Familiar pattern.
If you have no personality, no friends, no charm, all you need to do to gain some status is declare your fetish or “oppression” or mental illness and BOOM you are special, at least in your own mind.
So . . . they’ve learned how to make fairy gold.
“Archaeologists are transphobic.“
Easy enough.
sorry, need eye bleach with that one…
[ Slides tray of fatigued-looking sandwiches to more prominent position, directly under heat lamp. ]
[ Curling ensues. ]
Why is there ice all over the floor?
[ Fetches stick, pokes sandwiches closer to aelfheld. ]
Don’t be shy.
[ The bread used for those sandwiches ]
[ The bread used for those sandwiches ]
Dwarf bread!
“friends we haven’t met yet barriers”
“White liberals are incapable of modeling the thought processes of this young man. The total lack of empathy, the confidence in the face of the system, and the callous regard for human life. They cannot understand him and will make up fanciful tales to square this to themselves.”
It’s worse than that: Many liberals are motivated by malice.
“Don’t defend yourselves. Why would you want to defend yourselves?”
Where I live, income is the barrier (even though merely middle class) because lowlifes are unable to hold a real job and can’t afford to live here. This means that lots of POC live here, Indian, black, Persian, Chinese, because they are professionals who are responsible and stay out of jail. Libs can’t distinguish between fear of ferals and racism.
My visits to 100-year-old apartment buildings showed that nice neighborhoods used to have plenty of low-income residents. (Buildings with apartment sizes ranging from 3-bedroom down to tiny SRO’s.) Lowlifes were kept out by landlords, by the police, and by the neighbors. Lawfare largely destroyed those ways of keeping neighborhoods safe and livable, leaving only income barriers.
Indeed. And this is what is behind government coercion to put a “fair share” of subsidized housing in every neighborhood. That, and leftist malevolence.
That video is a pastiche of different cases & doesn’t accurately reflect the case addressed in the voice-over.
Linda Frickey was killed in Louisiana, not Michigan. Neither of the young men shown were the accused, who was 17 years of age, not 14.
Can’t imagine why.
Human alchemy not quite perfected, though we’re still betting our futures on it. By firing large numbers of Africans at Great Britain, we’re able to register 89,000 Englishmen a second in controlled conditions, but they only last long enough to say “steady on, old chap” before reverting to the Somali atomic configuration.