[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Monday, December 27, 2021 at 9:04:07 PM UTC-5, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, December 27, 2021 at 6:50:50 PM UTC-5, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote: 
> > Den 2021-12-27 kl. 22:28, skrev alanfe... at gmail.com: 
> > > On Monday, December 27, 2021 at 4:11:52 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote: 
> > >>> alanfe... at gmail.com wrote: 
> > >>> 
> > >>>> The rest of the world doesn't have several elements named after American entities: Americium, Berkelium, Californium, Tennessine, Lawrencium (a lab in California). Can any other country beat that? 
> > >> Russia, by a long shot. They have all the superheavy elements, even if 
> > >> Americans have a few of the transuranics. But then Russians have a bunch 
> > >> of weird ones like Samarium on top of that. 
> > >> 
> > >> And many of the rare earth elements are named after places in Scandinavia. 
> > >> Holmium is named after Stockholm, Scandium and Thulium after Scandinavia 
> > >> in general, Erbium, Terbium, Ytterbium all after the Ytterby mine in 
> > >> Sweden. 
> > >> --scott 
> > >> -- 
> > >> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." 
> > > 
> > > I misspoke. I was thinking manufactured elements that don't exist in nature. Sorry. I misspoke. My bad. 
> > > 
> > Ah, OK. There you might have a point. I looked them up and most are just 
> > made up things with low or even none at all practical use. Most of them are 
> > also very shortlived with half-live measured from 10's of milliseconds 
> > (tennessine) to a few hours (Lawrencium). What use do you have for them?
> Doesn't matter. I didn't say they were useful. For physics they are. For chemistry or direct pratical use, nothing yet. But you could have said that about Faraday's discovery of induction, Einsteins discovery in 1917 of stimulated emission, and other things.
> > 
> > Materials in the periodic system up to number 94 or 95 are "natural". The 
> > rest doesn't exists in nature, only in laboratories and are usually very 
> > short-lived.
> My impression has been that only up to U is found in nature.
> > 
> > Here is a list of natural elements with Swedish discovrer. I think that 
> > you will easily recognize at least the top 12-13 on that list. Many of 
> > them are heavily used in the everyday life today. 

Ah, now I see. For everyday life I was talking about Fahrenheit, not the elements. And I corrected myself to clarify that I meant elements that are not found in nature but were manufactured in America. Maybe I'm even wrong about that. Regardless, I was responding to America-bashers: "You fools use Fahrenheit. What idiots you are! Ha ha ha". We put 12 men on the moon, fool. 

I was responding to that, which I think damn well gives me the right to brag.

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Alan