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"currently the sats we have up there, do ALL these AND more :)" Satellite technology does indeed develop (and has developed) at an astonishing rate. Good thing some parts in Russian and American satellites are made in Finland; that way at least some parts of the satellite is completely functional. And for the things satellites can do... well, it probably won't be long until you can use a satellite as a powerful particle accelerator, an orbital bombing device and have it make a doughnut and a cup of coffee for you while you're at it.

"to get the black powder out i cut the length of the battery downwards and it just crumbles out, that simple brute force:)))" Do people ask where you got your muscles and then you just say "I've cut a lot of batteries in my life"?

"We do not need 2 threads for the posting of quotes, most of which have been in the other thread already." That's what they want us to think. But back to the topic, I'd like a collection of the top ten best quotes. (...Preferably picked through democratic voting. Yay for democracy! )

"Those values are for hyperfine interactions in the ground state. Any given atom has many transitions possible. e.g. Rb has a D2 transition at ~780 nm, and Cs at ~852 nm, which represent a transition to the first excited state (S1/2 to P3/2). Within that are the individual transitions from the two hyperfine-split ground states to the four excited states (six total transitions, since angular momentum can't change by more than one unit of \hbar ). " Uhhuh... I knew that the second definition had the hyperfine-from-ground-state thing but I had no idea about that stuff you just explained. Well, in quantum mechanics you learn something new every day (and in my case, it's usually too much ).

superfly = insect hero absolute zero

Materialism! Oh, such a noble purpose for Christmas, I'd say.

"how big would one have to be to make antimatter?" I hope you're not attempting to make a cyclotron capable of making anti-matter yourself. "You have a better way, using a proton accelerator? It's not like you can go out and buy this stuff on the street." Oops, didn't realize you had to use a proton accelerator.

"^Fireworks, black powder, etc. That thread is still going on..." I don't think you'd like to use potassium NITRITE in black powder mate.

You could buy nice ball mill stuff at United Nuclear too (as I mentioned in an earlier thread, they do ship some things to foreign countries if requested). The ball mill and such prices seem to be alright there, but I'm not sure how much it will cost to ship one of those buggers here.

Hmmh... You could separate hydrogen from HCl with lithium quite easily. I can't see why anyone would like to spend lithium for that purpose though.

"You slam a high energy-proton into the Thorium and hope that three additional protons, and some variable number of neutrons, get ejected. And that happens, some fraction of the time." That seems like a terribly ineffective way to make francium atoms. Ahh well, never understood physicist minds anyway.

"I'm deeply disturbed. I think we shouldn’t let these people dictate what we call things and call them whatever the hell we want." Right on, matey. Let's call negative terminals "whatsimagickers" and positive terminals "ropuffkazoodles".

"as for K metal extraction, Good Luck, there`s been a few here that have tried it, non with K metal as result" Heh, I hope Caustic doesn't end up with a molten potassium blob up his nose. I'd personally use lithium to displace thorium from lantern mantle ash. Or wouldn't, in the case FBI or the like are monitoring this thread... *walks away whistling*

"oh so that explains it :(" Well, a teenager shouldn't have too much problems getting Viagra in New York eh bud? Btw, don't they use Some sort of bromine salts in bath salts? Or then I'm once again wrong.

"sounds like you just ended up making KNO2 (Potassium Nitrite)." Isn't that the stuff that one might use to make certain stuff?

Man... Why did they have to make electricity so complicated.

"Well, I'm glad the law isn't a problem for you." There's always some bugger who makes his grandpa buy ammonia for him and gets 10 years of jail.

Smart Elements has brilliant discharge tubes. Deuterium and oxygen, for example. No nitrogen though, and they're awfully expensive. :S

"well ES, if not for the namecalling (and some minor misspellings), I would like to congratulate you on your first seemingly credible thread around here! Rounds for everyone!" Don't know about the thread but the article seems quite credible.

I don't know about how Canadians feel when they're called Americans, but if someone calls me European I'm going to make him eat a 2x4 that has several nails on it. >:/

"Well, all it takes is one 'explosive' encounter with a nice woman and BLAMMO, you have kids." Note to jdurg: Use a condom that's NOT made of nitrocellulose next time.

"hilarious!" I hope you meant the posting-animation-thingie, not the "getting your arteries clogged" stuff. )

"It's a new(ish) policy of Google to re-direct according to your location. It says that in the link that Jordan14 posted and it ties in with all of Google's other localisation of searches." Sure seems like it. I've been wondering why I'm always redirected to the .fi version. Not that I'd have a problem with it, just been wondering.

"The problem here is that Van Flandern is a crackpot." Lol. :> You're not a big fan of the "meta model" theory, now are you? )

"OTOH, I recall a time when I was at TRIUMF that we were making heavy nuclides with a Thorium target (we were making Francium; somebody else was using some other nuclide) and a local lab whose job it is to detect above-ground nuclear test fallout was able to tell." Lol. Btw, how did you make francium with a thorium target?