Path: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.bu.edu!dartvax.dartmouth.edu!not-for-mail From: Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium) Newsgroups: sci.chem Subject: Re: I wouldn't shitake in Seaborg's face, the blasphemor of gods Date: 25 Aug 1997 09:11:53 GMT Organization: Lobby to name chemical elements after plutonium with god names Lines: 35 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5tri8p$ppn$1@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiewit-off-bp-187.dartmouth.edu X-Newsreader: InterNews 2.0.2@kiewit-off-bp-187.dartmouth.edu[U] X-Authenticated: Archimedes.Plutonium on DND host dartmouth.edu Xref: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu sci.chem:105466 Organization University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In article skirvin@uiuc.edu (Robert M Skirvin) writes: > Why I wouldn't take a shitake in Seaborg's face. > The names of chemical elements should be reserved for gods, not greedy human > scientists. Why the gods may smoot us for this blasphemy. > -- > Robert M Skirvin (skirvin) - Prof - Natural Resources And Environmental > Sciences , Horticulture > Robert M. Skirvin > 258 E. R. Madigan Laboratory, MC-051 > 1201 West Gregory Drive > Urbana, Illinois 61801 > Phone: 217-333-1530 > E-mail: skirvin@uiuc.edu > >>Organization University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign >>In article tskirvin@uiuc.edu (Tim >>Skirvin) writes: >> >> I have to clarify for my Dad, he is working on a thornless shitake mushroom >> >> >> -- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@uiuc.edu) >> Yahoo search engine >> Archimedes Plutonium [uiuc.edu] >> Archimedes Plutonium [darmputh.edu] I don't understand Tim. What is your father's relationship to thornless horticulture mushrooms and his vehement desire to have the chemical elements named only after gods? Tim, a question. Was not Jesus a man and not a god and therefore Jesusium cannot be the name of an element?