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Title: So much Radium Post by: pajarator on September 17, 2006, 11:02:11 PM Have you noticed? The writers seemed to be utterly obsessed with radium all through the golden age... Including in the 'Quick quiz' sections'... I know this was the beginning of the atomic age, but it crops up every other issue...
Title: Re: So much Radium Post by: Super Monkey on September 17, 2006, 11:30:59 PM I think you should do a radium entry!
It would be cool to see a ref for everytime it was used in a story. It might be a long entry ;) But Long Entries are the best :D Title: Re: So much Radium Post by: TELLE on September 19, 2006, 11:13:46 PM Need....more....elements...!
Title: Re: So much Radium Post by: MatterEaterLad on September 19, 2006, 11:20:04 PM Agreed, the surface of elements has barely been scratched...planets as well... 8)
Title: Re: So much Radium Post by: dto on September 20, 2006, 01:21:38 AM Quote from: "MatterEaterLad" Agreed, the surface of elements has barely been scratched...planets as well... 8) I thought they just scratched Pluto off the planet list... :wink: Title: Re: So much Radium Post by: Super Monkey on September 20, 2006, 10:32:57 AM Suns, Stars, and moons are also included in the planets category, not because they are consider planets but because they are related.
Title: Re: So much Radium Post by: Great Rao on September 20, 2006, 03:51:12 PM Quote from: "dto" I thought they just scratched Pluto off the planet list... :wink: When is a planet not a planet? When it's a dwarf planet. According to the new definition, a "dwarf planet" is categorically NOT a planet. Which makes no sense to me. If something isn't a planet, it shouldn't be called a (whatever)-planet, it should be called a mega-asteroid, or some other term that doesn't actually include the word "planet." Based on the new terms used, "dwarf planets" should be considered a sub-set of planets, not a completely separate set. Which would mean that there are now 11 planets in the Solar System; 3 of which are dwarf planets. :s: Title: Re: So much Radium Post by: pajarator on September 22, 2006, 11:51:16 PM Well, up to a while ago there were still 9 official planets... which were the standard in 1986, so I guess we should not fret about the 'new' definitions...
About elements, there are a lot of them that are not named... for example, one of the first amnesia stories (there sure are a lot, should there be an entry?), superman hits an asteroid and loses his memory... which was later rewritten and now superman gets near the red-gold kryptonite... and loses his memory. But was the original red-gold kryptonite? It wasn't established... And there some great exotic unnamed materials, and rays... Title: Re: So much Radium Post by: TELLE on September 23, 2006, 06:57:21 PM I think Supermanica is one of the places that should take a stand against the Union of Astrological Physicists (or whatever they call themselves) --half pf whom didn't even vote on recategorizing Pluto. Time will prove us right and they will eventually move Pluto back into the planet category.
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