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Step 1: yeet mercury into a mini sun. If this actually works, I'm going to be convinced that some alchemist overheard an alien dude talking about this but misi
by fooker 9mo ago
Step 1: yeet mercury into a mini sun.
If this actually works, I'm going to be convinced that some alchemist overheard an alien dude talking about this but misinterpreted it in line with contemporary knowledge.
- ben_w 9mo agoIt does work, but nobody really cares because of all the radiation involved. Here's a paper, but given the date I have no idea if it was written by humans or by AI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13461 https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13461
- fooker 9mo agoSeems the radiation goes away in a decade or so, not a huge amount of time in the grand scheme of things. And I guess irradiated gold or a weird gold isotope would be just fine for putting in electronics that is meant to go beyond low earth orbit.