[alfa6]

I am reminded of the Admiral during WW II who when asked about the atomic bomb working said "As an expert in muntions it will never work" Dang I wish I could remember his name, IIRC he was FDR's aide.

For a wee bit of education, and a grin or two, try this...

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/elements.php

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[skinkinthegrass]

For a wee bit of education, and a grin or two, try this...

..thanks..where's is Ms. Sharp, Now?....She'd love this dittie.. I never could remember all of them..104 back then. :)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I am reminded of the Admiral during WW II who when asked about the atomic bomb...

In his autobiographical memoirs, Edward Teller relates being the front man for the physicists who were trying to get what eventually became the Manhattan District Engineering Project started. He had a meeting with military Brass and some skeptical colonel, whose name Teller mercifully forgets, said, "We've got a goat tethered in Aberdeen proving grounds and there's a five-thousand reward for anyone who can produce a death ray they'll kill it."

The panel asked Teller what they needed to get started. A supply of carbon pure enough to build an atomic reactor had been the biggest impediment up to that time, so he asked for $10,000 to buy the carbon. And that's exactly what they gave him, $10,000 to buy the carbon. Fermi used the carbon to build an atomic reactor in an atheletic facility at the University of Chicago. Word of the first successful man-made atomic chain reaction was relayed to Teller in a telegram containing the cryptic sentence, "The Italian navigator has reached the New World."

I dunno, Hafnium-178 could be this year's Red Mercury or Cold Fusion or Orgon Energy or it could be this year's carbon seed money.