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[–] darcy 8 points 10 months ago (7 children)

wait how has noone thought of this?

[–] Aurenkin 70 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah I think there were some folks who thought about splitting the atom right? I forget who.

Anyway, now I am become wealth, buyer of worlds.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean "no one". There is a wikihow guide on this: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Gold-from-Mercury

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Seems easy enough. Off to the nuclear reactor store to get started.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Aw man, all we have near us is IKEA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Just buy your Nuclear Reactor from IKEA: Stråhlå

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Could always build yourself a fusor for a weak neutron source. Lots of guides for that on YouTube.

[–] octoperson 13 points 10 months ago

Step two is fiddly

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This was the idea by alchemy. They thought you could change one element into another. Lead to gold and so forth, but not so easy in medieval Europe

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah they didn't have tweezers back then

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't be daft, of course they have tweezers back then.

They don't have plastic yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

But eletricity didnt exist at the time, so no risk of being electrocuted.

[–] darcy 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you can make gold from platinum! however this is a net loss as platinum costs more

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

You can make gold from hydrogen too! Just gotta put enough of it into one place so it forms a large star, then wait for it to go supernova.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah but it would cost more and take an exorbitant amount of time (like billions of years) to produce anything of value, let alone profit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Step 2 is expensive :( tweezers ain't cheap!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Zircon-encrusted

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Where am I gonna get a pygmy pony at this hour?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They have they all died tho cos it makes hydrogen gas and the die and suffocate please like to spread awareness

[–] darcy 2 points 10 months ago

just hold your breath ???