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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2009-04-27 10:35 am
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2009-04-27 10:35 am
Why
Do SF authors make up new elements? The elements don't seem to be in Seaborg's island of stability, either.
Actually, what I really mean is why would the sort of person who can't be bothered to look at a table of elements or think about the general decline in half-lives as atomic mass increases past a certain point bother with SF? What's the attraction for them?
Actually, what I really mean is why would the sort of person who can't be bothered to look at a table of elements or think about the general decline in half-lives as atomic mass increases past a certain point bother with SF? What's the attraction for them?
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Frickin' lasers, exploding spaceships, and hawt alien wimmen. Duh.