I think middle era baby boomers like me were right in that age range when Trek premiered where the details imprint on the brain forever. I recall just killing on Trek trivia when going through a trivia contest phase. For example, I can tell you what famous food ingredient confirmation T'Pau delivered in a famous sci-fi movie of the seventies.
Jerzy Skolimowski's The Shout, with Susannah York and Alan Bates, is an uncanny masterpiece. Bookended by a cricket match in an insane asylum, it tells the story of a weirdo drifter (Bates) who learned a special shout from an indigenous Australian shaman that kills everyone in the general vicinity, or something like that. He hangs at the home of some composer/sound designer (John Hurt), with a VCS3 and a fondness for the work of Francis Bacon, and his wife (York), who recreates a crazy Bacon painting, and all kinds of shenanigans ensue.
This is utterly random and weird, but T25 is the most common torque screw in the US, and I was actually buying T25 driver bits this weekend. Drilling is really a pleasure in the T25 system...
I thought they were a crap power ballad band from the 1980s? Caught between Wet Wet Wet, Brian Adams, Bonnie Tyler, Bon Jovi and pretty much all American music, I thought the beautiful world of music had come to an end before I was 21.
You would not get Dilithium, group one
Hydrogen?
The periodic table always sticks Hydrogen out on its own.Hydrogen?
Not always. https://ptable.com/#Properties
The Star Trek theme played slowly, drenched in reverb and with some slap-back echo would sound nice--kinda Star Trek meets Firefly maybe?
No it was more like Star Trek meets IPA Hazy.
Right, so can you do that with other group ones?Hydrogen?
And, as a matter of fact…: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilithium
But not “crystals”, obvs. ………
My dream crew would have Hannah as captain (a sharp Scotswoman like her would have to be in charge) and maybe Gabrielle as 1st officer. Though perhaps, given her slightly subversive smile, she might be better cast as the surgeon.
I don't understand that, I thought that p electron would not form a covalent bond, what about all those other empty p orbitals? Why would that be stable?
In the gas phase I think yes in principle, though the bond strength would decline as you go down the group, due to poorer overlap of the increasingly diffuse valence orbitals.