[Hg2491]

It's 5:10 am and I cannot sleep. Apparently I have been too much on the forums.

[brassplayersrock²]

[reader50]

One can't get enough Hg2491. This is easily explained. At such a high atomic weight, the half-life is extraordinarily short. One would have to scour the universe to obtain enough at any given instant to build a bomb.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by reader50 

One can't get enough Hg2491. This is easily explained. At such a high atomic weight, the half-life is extraordinarily short. One would have to scour the universe to obtain enough at any given instant to build a bomb.

That took four reads to click.


P.S.: Lame is awesome.

[Tiresias]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

That took four reads to click.

I still don't get it.

In future, reader50, I would ask you not to be so clever. If you want to add a bit of panache to your post, just give me a lolcat.

Thank you.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by toothpick_charlie 

I still don't get it.

Nor do I; but after the fourth read, it clicked that reader was talking about some kind of physics- and/or chemistry-related Mercury (no idea what the 2491 part is) topic, rather than Hg2491 the user.

I do support the rest of your request, though. Clever people like reader always give me inferiority complexes, and I don’t need any more of those.

[Hg2491]

Yes, he's talking about the half life of Mercury the chemical element. How long it takes for a mercury-contaminated body to be in the middle of the cycle of decontamination, that is. Incredibly I learned about his in Pre-Calculus, not even Chemistry itself.

The history behind Hg2491 goes back to when I was reading Eragon, where they described the dragon's egg as being of liquid silver. I then created an email account. Later on I had some trouble with the password (I changed it at night when I was bored and didn't remember it the next day) and after so many tries my account was blocked for a week. As you may already know, Hg is the chemical element for Mercury (also known as Liquid Silver or Quicksilver) and 2491 is my day and year of birth.

[reader50]

• C12 = Carbon-12. The '12' weight is the stable version.
• C14 = Carbon-14. An unstable isotope of Carbon, with a half-life of 5,730 years. Most popular version of Carbon in the PWL.
• U238 = Uranium-238. The most stable isotope of Uranium.
• Pu244 = Plutonium-244. Heaviest known element that's reasonably stable. What the terrorists want.
• Hg200 = Mercury-200. This is the stable version.
• Hg2491 = Mercury-2491. An impossibly heavy isotope of Mercury, with over 2,200 extra neutrons in the nucleus. Half-life would be a (very) tiny fraction of a second. On the plus side, it's so unstable that an atomic bomb based on it would have a high yield.

[lyanma]

This is lame indeed.

[Railroader]

Lama?

[SpaceMonkey]

[Big Mac]

Cool error message. Reminiscent of the "You've reached the end of the Internet" errors.

[Hg2491]

Where?