Comments on: Air heir

By: Philip

Philip — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:40:42 +0000

Amedeo Avogadro

By: JJ Berg

JJ Berg — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:41:15 +0000

Gabe:

6×10^23 x $100 = $6×10^25

right?

By: Pieter Kok

Pieter Kok — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:37:34 +0000

QD, Scarlet Johansson is not only very pretty, she is usually in pretty good movies too.

By: !AstralProjectile

!AstralProjectile — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:20:42 +0000

I took 21 comments to get to Gabes?
Et tu, The Chemist?

By: shane

shane — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:06:52 +0000

QD, I ‘ve heard her described as “thinking man’s crumpet”.
Only repeating what I’ve heard. Honestly. Don’t taze me bro’.

By: BVStaples

BVStaples — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:33:53 +0000

I think I saw this offer to adopt molecules once in the New Zork Times…

By: Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:24:34 +0000

Am I out of touch that I only vaguely know who Scarlett Johansson is? She acts or something, right?

By: Gabe

Gabe — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:16:19 +0000

I don’t mean to nitpick but I thought a blog with as high a nerd quotient as BA would do better. A mole, 6*10^25? to the 25? really!?! I’m not going to sweat you the significant figures but I guess to an astronomer only being over by two orders of magnitude isn’t that big of a deal, but if I bought a car and the dealer overcharged me by x100 I’d be pretty miffed.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:04:05 +0000

I paid around $35.00 to name a star after my husband for his 30th birthday almost 8 years ago. Yep, they got me. I have the “official” paper they sent me with his star’s location framed on a wall in my office as a reminder of how far my little skeptical self has come in the last 8 years.

By: Bigfoot

Bigfoot — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:26:36 +0000

I’ll eagerly adopt one of the Scarlett Johansson molecules, on the following conditions:

A. She’s a skeptic
B. I can personally verify the Scarlett Johansson inhalation/exhalation of the molecule.
C. Okay, okay! I’m not an unreasonable man. I’ll accept on condition B all by itself.

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:36:42 +0000

I thought blue was nitrogen…anyway it looks like Smurf buttocks. If you can get a mere 5 more you can make gold.

By: DLC

DLC — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:29:52 +0000

yeah, but when you combust h2 in 02, you wind up with the deadly chemical dhmo!

By: The Chemist

The Chemist — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:00:03 +0000

@ Mena,

No, but now it does!

By: Mena

Mena — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:30:35 +0000

OK, does that O drawing make anyone else think of Homer Simpson reaching for something in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator?

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:20:19 +0000

Yep. If you still don’t get it, maybe you should click through to see the comic’s title.

By: John Armstrong

John Armstrong — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:31:41 +0000

I don’t get it. A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that it’s almost certain that I’ve breathed in one of each of these within the last day.

By: Vasha

Vasha — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:12:52 +0000

OT: I vaguely recall reading that some indigenous people in South America recognized Uranus as a planet before it was discovered by astronomy in 1781. Can anyone corroborate my memory? If true, this would be an astonishing feat: Uranus is barely visible to the naked eye at approximately magnitude 5.7; who would be observing thousands of faint stars carefully enough to notice that one of them moves slowly along the ecliptic? Especially without writing to help record observations?

By: t-1000

t-1000 — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:10:58 +0000

Oh yeah? Well my house is made of atoms that were once part of dead stars.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:23:44 +0000

Sili: Actually to be fair, to me it’s very reminiscent of those little sidebar notes that I occasionally saw in kid’s science books. I remember once reading as a kid that every breath you inhale includes something like 10,000 oxygen atoms inhaled by Leonardo da Vinci, which blew my little mind well before “The Periodic Table” was written (much less translated into English).

By: Elwood Herring

Elwood Herring — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:18:07 +0000

Thanks for the offer, but I’ve already got one. Mine has the added distinction of being the last oxygen molecule breathed in by the last T. Rex 65,369,121 years ago (give or take a week).

And if you believe that then you can have it for only ninety nine ninety nine ninety nine…

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:01:05 +0000

With my COPD and emphesema, I think I have received all of those mols from my concentrator and/or tanks with a hose stuck up my nose 24/7 and it’s costing more than any of those.
Larry

By: Umair Rahat

Umair Rahat — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:48:41 +0000

If antimatter Scarlet Johansson inhaled and exhaled antimatter-dioxide, it would be just tad pricer for a mole at $15 x 10^{35}.

By: Fritriac

Fritriac — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:42:53 +0000

fron = from

/Meh.

By: Fritriac

Fritriac — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:41:55 +0000

Beware! Oxygen builds radicals!
Doesn’t “O”sama gets his name fron this?

By: miller

miller — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:39:17 +0000

Didn’t you once write an article about star registries? Ah! I found it.

http://www.csicop.org/si/2006-05/stars.html