The only substance in the world that could hold Congress speechless.
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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Pauls
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 7:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question
I was informed, in no uncertain terms, that I needed to get off my lazy ass and do some further education on half fractionals.
The element being described here is Scepterium (Sp-74.5). It is a half fractional with the properties of gold, silver and curium. It is most commonly found in the ore Dukeite and exists as Scepterium iodide.
Scepterium was first isolated by Sir Arthur Percival Roderick Speechless in 1815, from deposits of Dukeite prevalent in Farnsborough in the UK. The Scepterium, when reduced to pure form had all the luster of gold, the malleability of silver, and a very interesting radiation effect, which was not understood for years. When the material was displayed for George IV, two of the radiation effects became apparent. The radiation caused those near the metal to long to hold it (similar to gold and silver) and to believe they played a much greater role in the grand scheme of things. It was immediately crafted into a Royal Sceptre of the British Empire. As a side historical note, Sir Arthur was knighted by George IV using this Scepter, but it was so heavy it crushed Sir Arthur's skull, killing him on the spot. This is the origin of the term - struck speechless. A sad tale, but true.
The famous Washington monument Dave speaks of is the US Capitol, and I know this because I was there last week. A small amount of Scepterium was alloyed into the metals used to build the capstones of the chambers for the Senate and for the House of Representatives. Consequently, all those who sit in those chambers feel they are much more important or much more "royal" than they really are. As another side historical note, the Scepterium was sold to the US Government by Graham Naisbitt's great great
grandfather. So our present political problems are all his fault. A sad
tale, but true.
There is also a small amount of Scepterium plated over the top part of the Washington Monument capstone, which was damaged in the 2011 earthquake. So there are actually two monuments involved. They cannot finish the earthquake renovations until Graham sells the US government a little more Scepterium. He is holding out.
OK Hillman, do your worst.
Doug Pauls
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Date: 08/09/2013 06:54 AM
Subject: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question
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Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question:
The Question:
The pure form of this element is not found in nature. During the early 1800's this element was considered a precious metal and used by royalty. A
famous Washington DC monument has a capstone made from this element. What
element is being described?
The winner of the weekly element quiz will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week.
So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
Past Quiz winners/tasks:
Week 1 Dick Krug, Spartan Complex Systems Week 2 Laura Turbini, IRC Week 3 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited Week 3 Pat Goodyear, PGE Week 4 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory Week 5 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 6 Steve Gregory Week 7 Phil Kinner Week 8 Brian Ellis Week 9 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited Week 10 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
Week 11 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld-Elektronik Week 13 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
Week 14 Brian Ellis
Week 15 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 16 Steve Gregory Week 17 Phil Kinner Week 18 Ian Braddock, MBDA Systems Week 19 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
Week 20 Denny Fritz
Week 21 Amol Kane
- the boys can help me with optimization and qualification of Process Equipment like stencil printer and wash. In their spare time they can enjoy the fine TX summer
Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell
- the boys can stay 2 days with me and as I've always said "a man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking". I'll be training them in stand-up comedy dealing with the dichotomy of Technet humor. Their names and act will be " Grim and Stellar".
David Bealer, Watch Fire Signs
- since I will be out next week, they can take those 2 days off. Everybody deserves a weekend once in a while.
Week 22 Phil Kinner
- assisted with ????
Week 23 Guy Ramsey, RD Circuits
- The boys arrived on Saturday as promised. Stayed at our place, StonebridgeFarm, and helped hang high tension electric fence for my daughter's horse boarding operation. Sunday they helped me pull 300 hr maintenance on the tractor, watched Caroline start (break) a horse in training, tipped a few back by the pool, enjoyed a glorious purple sunset, tipped a couple more while telling stories and watching fire flies . . . took it easy.
During the week they worked on the in-line cleaner, validating and verifying the PID setups, repaired our high pressure pump for our factory humidification system, which without Steve Gregory's care and attention, had started to leak. Then we kicked around possible ways to keep a 600mm by 450mm by 7.6mm, 60 layer, sequential lamination board, with 33:1 PTH, eight DUT performance board at .4 mm pitch for 1189 Ball BGA survive reflow, measured z axis shift, and designed the attachment; pad, ball diameter and stencil for the interposers. They had to rush off before we finished developing the underfill process needed to stabilize the interposers.
Week 24 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger
- The boys have been working hard and surely deserve some break. I'm fixin' to be nice to the boys and just let them sit on my porch, have a Texas drink, relax and enjoy our weather. This summer's been kinda cold around here: has not even hit 40C (104F) yet.
Week 25 ????
- assisted with ????
Everyone have a safe week!
Dave Hillman
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