Dr Wingnut

Day: October 3, 2005

  • Impossible?

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    It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.Elizabeth Kolbert, “The Climate of Man,” New Yorker, May 9 2005

  • Governmentium

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    A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science.  The new element has been named “Governmentium.”  It has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.These 312 particles are held together by binding particles called…