[ivan.moony]

This periodic table is very special. It is the world's first mini handheld collection of all of the elements in the known universe. Well, except the dangerously radioactive ones. The first prototype is already there, and I hope they'll make it through end line production soon. Great work guys, good luck!

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[ivan.moony]

I'm suspicious about that yellow uranium. And what did they do with gases?

[AndyGoode]

They had those tables-with-samples in the 1970s, only a little larger, and the samples were not embedded in acrylic.

[Art]

The Yellow uranium is called Yellow Cake and it is the uranium powder from the mining process before it is further refined into that silver-ish substance everyone associates it to be. The Yellow Cake is about 80 - 90 % pure.

[goaty]

If you make your robot out of mud, then you don't need fancy elements to do it.

[ivan.moony]

Did you know that carbon and silicon are the only two elements that allow formation of  long chains of N same atoms (with addition of bounding other atoms along the chain). All other elements form short range molecules, and there is no space for such a property diversity. That is a reason why life on Earth is based mostly on carbon. There are also theories that silicon could also be a base for a kind of life. Even artificial boobs are made out of silicon 

You know what would be cool? A robot made entirely out of gas.

[edit]
Surprisingly, DNAs are made entirely out of twenty different kinds of amino acids bounded in long chains by hydrogen bonds, I think. So there might be some bonds supporting a life we are not aware of.

[goaty]

Yes rubber. and funnily,  think if you got good at grafting capsicums,  maybe you could grow them to fruit soft engine parts and pneumatic computers, then everything will grow on trees and we wont need money so much anymore. 

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