The WOSM called on the South Korean government to “honour” its commitments to provide extra resources and make the health and safety of participants its “top priority”.
She’s speaking to deaf ears. South Korean government and its supporters think individuals are responsible for their own health and welfare so the government is blameless. That’s the kind of attitude that the Korean people have been dealing with so far. Those foreign kids, they’re lucky they got international press about it, to embarrass the Korean government into late action. Otherwise, if those kids were Koreans, they would have been left to rot on their own devices and many would have died by now, with the blame going to the dead kids.
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Korean Man
10 months ago
A materials scientist examines the LK-99 paper in detail.
Let’s hope that this “discovery” is fake, as claimed by many Western media. One expert even likened the Korean scientists to amateurs, yaddy yaddi yad, etc etc. And also a couple of posters in this forum likened this to Korean “chopsticks” claims. Impossible that this is real.
While Western media and even scientific experts sit on their high chairs outright dismissing this, I’m worried that the Chinese are convinced they’ve replicated this study. The Chinese government is currently directing 100% of its resources to ‘rediscover’ this material and make it the China-99 material. If this is real (that is the real question). China’s goal is to rule the world with this stuff by taking credit. They are racing ahead in a mad dash right now, to be the first ones to bring this stuff to the markets and make every other country pay patent fees to Chinese research centers. The world doesn’t want this thing to be weaponized by China because the balance of power will tip in favor of a ruthless dictatorship.
But if this turns out to be a false positive claim, then there’s nothing to worry about, and you have all the free time to make more fun of Korean chopsticks.
ChickenHead
10 months ago
If only the Scouts had some kind of motto that would have allowed them to anticipate future problems and be ready to address them.
The Scouts have been downhill since their founder died.
The Chinabots are quite clever here. They are openly blaming Yoon, who has nothing to do with this and responded with “unlimited” aircon busses and other needs, but they are really making fun of Korea and Koreans.
They are pointing out that Korean events of this nature are frequently a clusterfunk of disorganization… not enough food, not enough water, NEVER enough shade, no preperation for wind or rain or heat or cold, horrid crowd management, poor hygiene management, a farcical person-to-toilet ratio, etc.
But in this case, the Korea-haters are right.
ChickenHead
10 months ago
LK-99 is almost certainly fake.
This entire situation is almost certainly a stock manipulation scheme as everybody rushes to invest in superconductor companies.
Like the every-few-years cold fusion excitement, this too will fade.
My observations:
They have been dorking around with this since 1999.
It appears to have some interesting properties, one of which is similar to a superconductor property, so they have had 25 years of hope.
They have filed patents and formed a company.
But there is no hope becasue it is not a superconductor and they haven’t been able to make it one.
Now it is time to pump up the hype, dump shares into the market, and release it to the world and see if anyone else can do something with it.
It requires a few hundred dollars in equipment, standard chemicals, and little work or time, to reproduce this. If it looks like the real deal, I will personally run off a batch and report here.
After reading all the papers, I would guess the biggest holdup to making an actual superconductor (if this really works) is making perfect crystals with perfectly distributed doping… meaning this is an engineering problem rather than a science problem.
However, whike it seems to demonstrate at least one interesting property, a superconductor is defined by several properties, and there is no hint of the others.
Korean Man
10 months ago
This just in, 25 American kids were taken to hospital and 5 of them have died. It was their own fault. The Yoon government blamed the leftist commies for accusing him of something he was not responsible for.
I know of a few Koreans who are part of the volunteer organization committee for this Jamboree, and let me tell you, they predicted this disaster well before the event took place. They complained (well before the event) that the organization was in utter chaos, lack of organization, safety contingency plans, and lack of funds. The volunteers time and time again, pointed out all the long list of serious deficiencies and safety violations to the government in charge, but they were all ignored. They only got lip service words that everything was in control and that everything is well prepared.
The government organizations responsible for organizing this were the Gender Equality Ministry, Interior Safety Ministry, and the Culture Ministry. They partnered with the North Jeolla provincial government (Democrat) to run this event. The North Jeolla governor wanted to cancel the event due to high heat warnings – but got overruled by the Gender Ministry. Last year, the Democrat party grilled the Government on the lack of preparedness for the coming event in a parliamentary session inquiry that was televised. At that time, the Government claimed that they were well prepared and that the opposition was just trying to politically attack the ruling party.
At that time last year, the Democrats asked the central government to release an emergency fund to quickly improve the serious issues that were affecting the Jamboree. The government denied that fund request, until yesterday when they released an emergency fund to help those poor kids from all over the world.
The central government is now blaming all this on the former Moon government for getting the Jamboree event in 2017, saying that the Moon government failed to organize the event properly. This is quite ridiculous in light of the fact that Yoon himself said that Korea was well prepared for this event that everything will go well and that this is going to further improve South Korea’s reputation. He made that speech right at the start of the event. Instead, the opposite has happened, and this is tarnishing the country’s reputation that was carefully built up over the years.
The President has to take the fault because he is the one who picked the heads of the ministries involved in organizing the event. The Safety Interior Minister was involved in the Itaewon tragedy and he was cleared of all wrongdoings. Now it looks like he’ll avoid punishment again due to the President backing him unconditionally. Incompetence and dereliction of duty should be enough cause to be fired. But not under the Yoon government which completely rebuilt the Korean government’s decision-making system into an authoritarian hierarchical top-down centralized decision-making system. Like a Communist Party leadership, only a few high-positioned people (mostly prosecutors who were buddies of Yoon) who are not experts, who had absolutely no idea about the fields that they are in charge of, are the ones making detailed day-to-day decisions. If the top is rot, then it’s not surprising the rot goes to the bottom. Incompetence and lack of responsibility permeate the current government.
This disaster is the responsibility of all Koreans who voted for this horribly incompetent government. The consequence is that we all must now pay for it by suffering under this government. We wake up one day, and we find out the country is now back to being an underdeveloped corrupt country that can’t do anything right. The clock was turned back. What a sad day for Korea.
ChickenHead
10 months ago
We might want to verify these statements but…
– it sounds 100% plausible
– it fits with my experience at almost all such events in Korea
– the explanation was refeshingly well-written
– “You’re doin’ a heckava job, Brownie.”
Plus one.
GrayBlack
10 months ago
I wonder what the historical context of jamborees is?
Problems have hit scout jamborees before. After a case of meningitis was detected at a 2015 gathering, in Japan, officials sent warnings to 4,000 scouts to watch out for symptoms.
And at a 2005 jamboree for Boy Scouts, in Virginia, an electrical accident killed four scout leaders. At the same event, about 300 people were treated for heat exhaustion after standing in the sun for hours as temperatures reached the upper 90s.
It’s almost as if going outside has inherent risk involved that no amount of government planning can account for at the individual level for a completely voluntary public event. One might say, ‘gosh people ought to think for themselves and plan accordingly!’
Of course such ‘radical’ notions of personal responsibility get drowned out in the never ending tirade of effeminate voices pleading for big mommy government to hold their hands and spoon feed them. Look no further than “Korean” “Man, who I doubt is really a “man,” or even “Korean” for that matter,
South Korean government and its supporters think individuals are responsible for their own health and welfare so the government is blameless.
What kind of eunuch thinking is this? Of course individual general welfare is their own responsibility. What kind of man desires a big dommy mommy government henpecking them at all times about diet and fitness and etc and etc ad infinitum. Here’s an idea… if it’s hot outside bring a lot of water, maybe even a handheld fan, decadent I know, but no more decadent than spending thousands of dollars to attend an event. I noticed thousands of others did not succumb to the heat. It’s almost as if they went well prepared, you know, the kind of responsibility the Boy’s Scouts is trying to instill.
Does he believe his low testosterone is the government’s fault and not her own self castration?
“Korean” “Man,” do some pushups and eat some meat already, and maybe you’ll actually be able to call yourself a man.
Steven
10 months ago
The first LK-99 replication success in the United States was just made by an R&D engineer with the California-based Varda Space Industries, named Andrew McCalip who live-streamed his replication.
There is still a question if this is really a superconducting event that will require improvement to make it into a full Meisner Effect. Right now, only one side of the material is raised, while the other side is not.
Watch the discussion by three guys, including McCalip talking about his successful replication. Even if LK-99 is not a superconductive material, they point out that at the very least, this is a new material that has opened up a new field of research in superconductivity – a new game changer.
I just had a conversation with some PhDs (Science but not chemistry) and they are the usual idiots over this… Not from a chinese lab, Safe & Effective, Ukraine is Winning, illegal immigrants are good, George Floyd is a hero, LK-99 must be a superconductor and the world is going to be a better place. (They are not Korean so no nationalism involved).
I am so tired of stupid people… but more tired of smart people… as the smarter they get, the more they concentrate in one area and become truly ignorant in most others… with a shocking amount of ideology driving their thinking.
Anyway…
The most productive thing that came out of this was the idea that it only superconducts on one plain within the crystal… and a superconducting wire would be a pretty useful thing. True that.
The other possibility is that it COULD superconduct in 3D but crappy manufacturing means it might only conduct via one pathway where the crystals happen to form corectly.
I notice all replication has the same effect of one end hovering and one end dragging. Time to get out the nail clippers and start trimming away the dead end.
Either nobody thought of this (doubtful) or it doesn’t do anything… which would also be interesting.
These eggheads don’t know how to do business and listening to them yap rationalizations about why the LK-99 guys have been oking at this for 25 years with nothing solid to show is disgusting.
“They ran out of funding. They couldn’t afford the expensive outside tests to prove what it was.”
Fùck you, eggheads.
So i went down the list of properties that define a supercondutor.
Over half can be verified with stuff you can buy on Aliexpress for less than they spent decorating their office.
So the way you do this with no money is to list your variables, make a hyper-dimensional tensor with each axis as a range of this variable, and follow the recipe at each location in the tensor.
If you get a substance that shows promise, you concentrate in this area. Entire columns in your recipe tensor can be done at once by doing such things as making long tubes of this substance and cooling at one end, which will give you a spectum of cooling rates. Cut it into thin slices and see if there is a property difference between 1500⁰C/min and 100⁰C/min. Etc.
You can work part time at McDonalds and fund this work once you have the equipment.
If you create a substance that looks like a superconductor in all the ways you can test at home (such as fully hovering instead of dragging àss), you will have zero problem getting funding for some x-ray crystalography so you can write your paper.
But these eggheads live and die by funding… so the goal is not really science… it is securing funding.
This is why all those covid scientists privately said covid came from the lab down the street from the outbreak where they did gain of function on covid, and the virus was clearly manupulated, yet publicly said it came from animals… because Fauci was in charge of approving their funding.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
(Unless we are a pharmaceutical comany)
Fortunately, LK-99 can be made in a home lab and lots of people are trying.
We will see if the batches get better… this opens a new metamaterial field of study… or it fades along with superconductor stock prices and is never spoken of again.
Note: i suspect it is not a room temperature superconductor but has some interesting properties worthy of more research… though, perhaps, with a level of manufacturing quality very difficult to achieve, it could be?
Let’s see what happens.
Bonus: the linked article has a mistake. Red phosphorus is not used to “synthesize morphone derivatives”. It is used in the manufacture of meth (red-p method). It is also a “controlled substance” only if you are unable to “cut matches”.
Ref the so-called jamboree: why do liberals insist on gathering thousands of imbeciles (just look at the pictures) and then make a spectacle of their imbecilic behavior? Not prepared for the heat in August? Really?
Mmm, maybe there were (recent) examples of large gatherings where things went horribly wrong.
Steven
10 months ago
Chickenhead, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Mcgeehee, who are you referring to, when you say they are liberal imbeciles?
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NoSpam
10 months ago
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“Stoic Wisdom” by Nancy Sherman
ChickenHead
10 months ago
“Mcgeehee, who are you referring to, when you say they are liberal imbeciles?”
He might be talking about such policy changes as letting girls in the Boy Scouts, allowing homosexuals to be troop leaders, allowing transsexual Scouts, and requiring a diversity and inclusion badge to become an eagle scout.
The Girl Scouts are pretty much reduced to cookie pushers increasingly indoctrinated with femino-centric values.
God has been sidelined from the original Christian-based Scouts. And however you feel about Christianity in general, it has a very good moral code that provides excellent guidance for those who roughly follow it without abusing it.
These are liberal policies and they are imbecilic.
I most likely wouldn’t have answered Steven; because normally, the ones asking for an explanation are part of the problem.
And then they want an explanation for the explanation. Infinity.
ChickenHead
10 months ago
Did I mention that modern social justice-focused scouts were not prepared individually or organizationally with the most basic scouting essentials like shade and water, when a Google search clearly explains August Korean weather.
The scouts of the 70s would have been prepared for this or would have adapted and overcome.
The modern divertity and inclusion scouts couldn’t scout their way off a mudflat in view of a modern city of 10 million kind and accommodating people.
This is not just an embarrassment to Korea (with a history of such embarassments), but it is an embarrassment to the Scouts.
“Be Prepared”
That is the Scout motto.
The lefties want to blame the Korean government (including the Gender Equality Ministry, where mediocrity goes to die) and they may have some blame in not recognizing the imcompetence of the Scouts.
But the Scouts are shockingly the… the… opposite… of… Scouts.
They don’t have a Jamboree Checklist?
“Hey, guys, have we learned any lessons in the last 100 years?”
“Well, those kids get thirsty running around in the sun. Seems like unlimited cool water and many distribution points might be needed.
And according to our last 99 Jamborees, heat is tolerable in the shade but out in the sun with nowhere to sit puts kids in the hospital.”
“OK. Go get our Jamboree Checklist, call Korea and tell them what to prepare. Have them send pictures and a report so we can evaluate what they have done. And have one of our Korea-American members make a list of outside suppliers we can call for water, food, shade, toilets, medical services, and all the other things on the checklist, in case we run short. Get an evacuation plan to a stadium or other large enclosed area in case of disater.
Oh, and get some security with baseball bats… Korea has been… uh… rather stabby lately.”
I could have organized these logistics in a week or two… even without 113 years of institutional knowledge backing me up.
But leftist values ruins everything that works… as it moves priority away from the goal to chase unrelated agendas.
Leftists get their power from disorder and disfunction… and if follows them like a shadow.
Stephen
10 months ago
Steven,
interesting spelling,
Stephen
Stefan
10 months ago
Steven is a fairly common name, Stephen.
Korean Man
10 months ago
Wow, China is in this all out now, they’ve just released a video showing a full levitation of LK-99 material.
It’s almost as if going outside has inherent risk involved that no amount of government planning can account for at the individual level for a completely voluntary public event. One might say, ‘gosh people ought to think for themselves and plan accordingly!’
You do realize that Yoon’s presidential spokesman, in his response to the press, claimed that the fault lies with the Minjoo party leaders and that the President’s office will spark an investigation of the Minjoo party leaders ‘responsible for the lack of organization of world Jamboree’, right? If this is nobody’s fault, why is Yoon blaming the former government and is looking to arrest former government leaders?
Princess Yojong’s new TV commercial railing against the southern barbarian invasion.
I hate Taeguk Ladies football, K-pop, choco-pies and Hyundai cars!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CeWbMY6pduI&pp
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-stabbing-sidewalk-9dddc21d452f7d97d4be02202992c025
The first stabbing was brutal.
A security camera in a shop caught the sutuation in high resolution.
A truck passed and the stabber started stabbing the stabee.
The stabee flailed and kicked while blood collected on the ground.
Then the stabee could go on no longer and suddenly went limp.
The stabber hit them a couple more times, once in the face, and fled.
A girl came to the shop door with body language indicating she didn’t understand what she just saw.
Stay safe.
China has serious flooding even in Beijing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LbLXRtGoDg&t=1s
Please pray for them.
UK Scouts pulled out of world jamboree in South Korea.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66407392
She’s speaking to deaf ears. South Korean government and its supporters think individuals are responsible for their own health and welfare so the government is blameless. That’s the kind of attitude that the Korean people have been dealing with so far. Those foreign kids, they’re lucky they got international press about it, to embarrass the Korean government into late action. Otherwise, if those kids were Koreans, they would have been left to rot on their own devices and many would have died by now, with the blame going to the dead kids.
A materials scientist examines the LK-99 paper in detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aobfGrGNlXM&ab_channel=TimVentura
Let’s hope that this “discovery” is fake, as claimed by many Western media. One expert even likened the Korean scientists to amateurs, yaddy yaddi yad, etc etc. And also a couple of posters in this forum likened this to Korean “chopsticks” claims. Impossible that this is real.
While Western media and even scientific experts sit on their high chairs outright dismissing this, I’m worried that the Chinese are convinced they’ve replicated this study. The Chinese government is currently directing 100% of its resources to ‘rediscover’ this material and make it the China-99 material. If this is real (that is the real question). China’s goal is to rule the world with this stuff by taking credit. They are racing ahead in a mad dash right now, to be the first ones to bring this stuff to the markets and make every other country pay patent fees to Chinese research centers. The world doesn’t want this thing to be weaponized by China because the balance of power will tip in favor of a ruthless dictatorship.
But if this turns out to be a false positive claim, then there’s nothing to worry about, and you have all the free time to make more fun of Korean chopsticks.
If only the Scouts had some kind of motto that would have allowed them to anticipate future problems and be ready to address them.
The Scouts have been downhill since their founder died.
The Chinabots are quite clever here. They are openly blaming Yoon, who has nothing to do with this and responded with “unlimited” aircon busses and other needs, but they are really making fun of Korea and Koreans.
They are pointing out that Korean events of this nature are frequently a clusterfunk of disorganization… not enough food, not enough water, NEVER enough shade, no preperation for wind or rain or heat or cold, horrid crowd management, poor hygiene management, a farcical person-to-toilet ratio, etc.
But in this case, the Korea-haters are right.
LK-99 is almost certainly fake.
This entire situation is almost certainly a stock manipulation scheme as everybody rushes to invest in superconductor companies.
Like the every-few-years cold fusion excitement, this too will fade.
My observations:
They have been dorking around with this since 1999.
It appears to have some interesting properties, one of which is similar to a superconductor property, so they have had 25 years of hope.
They have filed patents and formed a company.
But there is no hope becasue it is not a superconductor and they haven’t been able to make it one.
Now it is time to pump up the hype, dump shares into the market, and release it to the world and see if anyone else can do something with it.
It requires a few hundred dollars in equipment, standard chemicals, and little work or time, to reproduce this. If it looks like the real deal, I will personally run off a batch and report here.
After reading all the papers, I would guess the biggest holdup to making an actual superconductor (if this really works) is making perfect crystals with perfectly distributed doping… meaning this is an engineering problem rather than a science problem.
However, whike it seems to demonstrate at least one interesting property, a superconductor is defined by several properties, and there is no hint of the others.
This just in, 25 American kids were taken to hospital and 5 of them have died. It was their own fault. The Yoon government blamed the leftist commies for accusing him of something he was not responsible for.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/08/05/world-scout-jamboree-American-teens-dead-south-korean-heatwave/?sh=78d3bd3013db
I know of a few Koreans who are part of the volunteer organization committee for this Jamboree, and let me tell you, they predicted this disaster well before the event took place. They complained (well before the event) that the organization was in utter chaos, lack of organization, safety contingency plans, and lack of funds. The volunteers time and time again, pointed out all the long list of serious deficiencies and safety violations to the government in charge, but they were all ignored. They only got lip service words that everything was in control and that everything is well prepared.
The government organizations responsible for organizing this were the Gender Equality Ministry, Interior Safety Ministry, and the Culture Ministry. They partnered with the North Jeolla provincial government (Democrat) to run this event. The North Jeolla governor wanted to cancel the event due to high heat warnings – but got overruled by the Gender Ministry. Last year, the Democrat party grilled the Government on the lack of preparedness for the coming event in a parliamentary session inquiry that was televised. At that time, the Government claimed that they were well prepared and that the opposition was just trying to politically attack the ruling party.
At that time last year, the Democrats asked the central government to release an emergency fund to quickly improve the serious issues that were affecting the Jamboree. The government denied that fund request, until yesterday when they released an emergency fund to help those poor kids from all over the world.
The central government is now blaming all this on the former Moon government for getting the Jamboree event in 2017, saying that the Moon government failed to organize the event properly. This is quite ridiculous in light of the fact that Yoon himself said that Korea was well prepared for this event that everything will go well and that this is going to further improve South Korea’s reputation. He made that speech right at the start of the event. Instead, the opposite has happened, and this is tarnishing the country’s reputation that was carefully built up over the years.
The President has to take the fault because he is the one who picked the heads of the ministries involved in organizing the event. The Safety Interior Minister was involved in the Itaewon tragedy and he was cleared of all wrongdoings. Now it looks like he’ll avoid punishment again due to the President backing him unconditionally. Incompetence and dereliction of duty should be enough cause to be fired. But not under the Yoon government which completely rebuilt the Korean government’s decision-making system into an authoritarian hierarchical top-down centralized decision-making system. Like a Communist Party leadership, only a few high-positioned people (mostly prosecutors who were buddies of Yoon) who are not experts, who had absolutely no idea about the fields that they are in charge of, are the ones making detailed day-to-day decisions. If the top is rot, then it’s not surprising the rot goes to the bottom. Incompetence and lack of responsibility permeate the current government.
This disaster is the responsibility of all Koreans who voted for this horribly incompetent government. The consequence is that we all must now pay for it by suffering under this government. We wake up one day, and we find out the country is now back to being an underdeveloped corrupt country that can’t do anything right. The clock was turned back. What a sad day for Korea.
We might want to verify these statements but…
– it sounds 100% plausible
– it fits with my experience at almost all such events in Korea
– the explanation was refeshingly well-written
– “You’re doin’ a heckava job, Brownie.”
Plus one.
I wonder what the historical context of jamborees is?
It’s almost as if going outside has inherent risk involved that no amount of government planning can account for at the individual level for a completely voluntary public event. One might say, ‘gosh people ought to think for themselves and plan accordingly!’
Of course such ‘radical’ notions of personal responsibility get drowned out in the never ending tirade of effeminate voices pleading for big mommy government to hold their hands and spoon feed them. Look no further than “Korean” “Man, who I doubt is really a “man,” or even “Korean” for that matter,
What kind of eunuch thinking is this? Of course individual general welfare is their own responsibility. What kind of man desires a big dommy mommy government henpecking them at all times about diet and fitness and etc and etc ad infinitum. Here’s an idea… if it’s hot outside bring a lot of water, maybe even a handheld fan, decadent I know, but no more decadent than spending thousands of dollars to attend an event. I noticed thousands of others did not succumb to the heat. It’s almost as if they went well prepared, you know, the kind of responsibility the Boy’s Scouts is trying to instill.
Does he believe his low testosterone is the government’s fault and not her own self castration?
“Korean” “Man,” do some pushups and eat some meat already, and maybe you’ll actually be able to call yourself a man.
The first LK-99 replication success in the United States was just made by an R&D engineer with the California-based Varda Space Industries, named Andrew McCalip who live-streamed his replication.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/engineer-details-messy-lk-99-superconductor-fabrication-process
There is still a question if this is really a superconducting event that will require improvement to make it into a full Meisner Effect. Right now, only one side of the material is raised, while the other side is not.
Watch the discussion by three guys, including McCalip talking about his successful replication. Even if LK-99 is not a superconductive material, they point out that at the very least, this is a new material that has opened up a new field of research in superconductivity – a new game changer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pnKiBdNVhc&ab_channel=ThisWeekinStartups
I just had a conversation with some PhDs (Science but not chemistry) and they are the usual idiots over this… Not from a chinese lab, Safe & Effective, Ukraine is Winning, illegal immigrants are good, George Floyd is a hero, LK-99 must be a superconductor and the world is going to be a better place. (They are not Korean so no nationalism involved).
I am so tired of stupid people… but more tired of smart people… as the smarter they get, the more they concentrate in one area and become truly ignorant in most others… with a shocking amount of ideology driving their thinking.
Anyway…
The most productive thing that came out of this was the idea that it only superconducts on one plain within the crystal… and a superconducting wire would be a pretty useful thing. True that.
The other possibility is that it COULD superconduct in 3D but crappy manufacturing means it might only conduct via one pathway where the crystals happen to form corectly.
I notice all replication has the same effect of one end hovering and one end dragging. Time to get out the nail clippers and start trimming away the dead end.
Either nobody thought of this (doubtful) or it doesn’t do anything… which would also be interesting.
These eggheads don’t know how to do business and listening to them yap rationalizations about why the LK-99 guys have been oking at this for 25 years with nothing solid to show is disgusting.
“They ran out of funding. They couldn’t afford the expensive outside tests to prove what it was.”
Fùck you, eggheads.
So i went down the list of properties that define a supercondutor.
Over half can be verified with stuff you can buy on Aliexpress for less than they spent decorating their office.
So the way you do this with no money is to list your variables, make a hyper-dimensional tensor with each axis as a range of this variable, and follow the recipe at each location in the tensor.
If you get a substance that shows promise, you concentrate in this area. Entire columns in your recipe tensor can be done at once by doing such things as making long tubes of this substance and cooling at one end, which will give you a spectum of cooling rates. Cut it into thin slices and see if there is a property difference between 1500⁰C/min and 100⁰C/min. Etc.
You can work part time at McDonalds and fund this work once you have the equipment.
If you create a substance that looks like a superconductor in all the ways you can test at home (such as fully hovering instead of dragging àss), you will have zero problem getting funding for some x-ray crystalography so you can write your paper.
But these eggheads live and die by funding… so the goal is not really science… it is securing funding.
This is why all those covid scientists privately said covid came from the lab down the street from the outbreak where they did gain of function on covid, and the virus was clearly manupulated, yet publicly said it came from animals… because Fauci was in charge of approving their funding.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
(Unless we are a pharmaceutical comany)
Fortunately, LK-99 can be made in a home lab and lots of people are trying.
We will see if the batches get better… this opens a new metamaterial field of study… or it fades along with superconductor stock prices and is never spoken of again.
Note: i suspect it is not a room temperature superconductor but has some interesting properties worthy of more research… though, perhaps, with a level of manufacturing quality very difficult to achieve, it could be?
Let’s see what happens.
Bonus: the linked article has a mistake. Red phosphorus is not used to “synthesize morphone derivatives”. It is used in the manufacture of meth (red-p method). It is also a “controlled substance” only if you are unable to “cut matches”.
Ref the so-called jamboree: why do liberals insist on gathering thousands of imbeciles (just look at the pictures) and then make a spectacle of their imbecilic behavior? Not prepared for the heat in August? Really?
Mmm, maybe there were (recent) examples of large gatherings where things went horribly wrong.
Chickenhead, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Mcgeehee, who are you referring to, when you say they are liberal imbeciles?
Here’s a great book to add to your Kindle library.
“Stoic Wisdom” by Nancy Sherman
“Mcgeehee, who are you referring to, when you say they are liberal imbeciles?”
He might be talking about such policy changes as letting girls in the Boy Scouts, allowing homosexuals to be troop leaders, allowing transsexual Scouts, and requiring a diversity and inclusion badge to become an eagle scout.
The Girl Scouts are pretty much reduced to cookie pushers increasingly indoctrinated with femino-centric values.
God has been sidelined from the original Christian-based Scouts. And however you feel about Christianity in general, it has a very good moral code that provides excellent guidance for those who roughly follow it without abusing it.
These are liberal policies and they are imbecilic.
Thanks CH. Succinct, impactful, and true.
I most likely wouldn’t have answered Steven; because normally, the ones asking for an explanation are part of the problem.
And then they want an explanation for the explanation. Infinity.
Did I mention that modern social justice-focused scouts were not prepared individually or organizationally with the most basic scouting essentials like shade and water, when a Google search clearly explains August Korean weather.
The scouts of the 70s would have been prepared for this or would have adapted and overcome.
The modern divertity and inclusion scouts couldn’t scout their way off a mudflat in view of a modern city of 10 million kind and accommodating people.
This is not just an embarrassment to Korea (with a history of such embarassments), but it is an embarrassment to the Scouts.
“Be Prepared”
That is the Scout motto.
The lefties want to blame the Korean government (including the Gender Equality Ministry, where mediocrity goes to die) and they may have some blame in not recognizing the imcompetence of the Scouts.
But the Scouts are shockingly the… the… opposite… of… Scouts.
They don’t have a Jamboree Checklist?
“Hey, guys, have we learned any lessons in the last 100 years?”
“Well, those kids get thirsty running around in the sun. Seems like unlimited cool water and many distribution points might be needed.
And according to our last 99 Jamborees, heat is tolerable in the shade but out in the sun with nowhere to sit puts kids in the hospital.”
“OK. Go get our Jamboree Checklist, call Korea and tell them what to prepare. Have them send pictures and a report so we can evaluate what they have done. And have one of our Korea-American members make a list of outside suppliers we can call for water, food, shade, toilets, medical services, and all the other things on the checklist, in case we run short. Get an evacuation plan to a stadium or other large enclosed area in case of disater.
Oh, and get some security with baseball bats… Korea has been… uh… rather stabby lately.”
I could have organized these logistics in a week or two… even without 113 years of institutional knowledge backing me up.
But leftist values ruins everything that works… as it moves priority away from the goal to chase unrelated agendas.
Leftists get their power from disorder and disfunction… and if follows them like a shadow.
Steven,
interesting spelling,
Stephen
Steven is a fairly common name, Stephen.
Wow, China is in this all out now, they’ve just released a video showing a full levitation of LK-99 material.
https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1687740396691185664
Google Translating this Chinese site that Andrew Cote cited, the Chinese are claiming that the Intellectual Property belongs to China.
https://wallstreetcn.com/articles/3694890
You do realize that Yoon’s presidential spokesman, in his response to the press, claimed that the fault lies with the Minjoo party leaders and that the President’s office will spark an investigation of the Minjoo party leaders ‘responsible for the lack of organization of world Jamboree’, right? If this is nobody’s fault, why is Yoon blaming the former government and is looking to arrest former government leaders?
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