IUPAC currently recognises 118 chemical elements. The last twenty have half-lives shorter than Australian prime ministers, and are of equally limited utility to science. However, physicists have predicted that an island of nuclear stability may exist around element 126, containing long-lived isotopes. We propose that this island is actually 400 light-years away.
As such, they are the densest known material outside of Twitter, at around 1017 kg/m3. For American readers unfamiliar with SI units, that means a pair of truck-nuts1 made of neutron star would weigh as much as ten million aircraft carriers.
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We thank the management of the Alien-Life Molestation Array (ALMA) for allowing us to piss around with their telescopes, while they were having lunch.
I didn’t understand most of the middle but, but it was a funny read and goddamn are the writers on point.
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I didn’t understand most of the middle but, but it was a funny read and goddamn are the writers on point.