L. Marcus Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 Wasn't hydrogen discovered and named before the first version of the periodic table? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 Hydrogen is one of the 60 or so elements appearing on Mendeleev's table, yes. I will often show my students a copy of his table and ask them to identify what's missing. It takes them a while, but they eventually figure out that none of the noble gases are on Mendeleev's table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 Noble? Bah. Who died and made them king? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 Mendeleev. Duh. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 Was he assassinated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 I have to look. Russia around the turn of the 20th Century was not a secure or placid place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 Actual Anarchists roaming the streets, and so forth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 And the Okhrana, which was much worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 Not very nice people at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 Was he assassinated? Flu epidemic, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 Not the Prussian Grippe, I hope. I think that one's fictional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 In Russia, there are historically lots of real deaths with fictitious reasons for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 "He accidentally brutally cut his own head off while combing his hair." tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 He was playing Rolemaster at the time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 You'd think so, but he was actually assassinated by Edmund Blackadder, Esq. in the first episode of season 3. Another one "accidentally brutally stabbed himself in his stomach while shaving." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 In Russia, there are historically lots of real deaths with fictitious reasons for them. Tom Clancy made reference to one such, something like how a controversial person had suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage . . . a 9 mm brain hemorrhage, specifically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 That's very specific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 I assume they also have 7.62 mm cardiac infarctions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 We can dilate those, no problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 Re: The Last Word So if L. Marcus gets so depressed he doesn't even want to move, and someone tries to get a rise out of him by stomping on his toes, and one of us gentler sorts (like zornwil) advises against that, is he saying, "Don't you step on our blue Swede's shoes"? I don't know how I missed this the first time around. (Or how you found it so many years later.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 The prof haz mad L33t surch skillz! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 I don't know how I missed this the first time around. (Or how you found it so many years later.)To the latter ... by accident. I discovered this morning that via your profile page you can get to all of your own posts that have been Liked, and some of those seem to have survived the multiple software migrations of the boards. So find that list of likes and go to the last page of that and you'll find the analogous page for yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 ... Did we always have Likes and such? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 My guess is that it's a carry-forward from rep in some sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 That follows, but I meant was there such things from the start? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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