Hello Richard - I see you have been drinking Doug's Diet Mt. Dew again! I
will send your objection to the FEQAB and ask for a review over the
weekend. I expect that they will have a reply on Monday.
And to think I thought this activity would be just a little Friday quiz -
such a monster it has grown into! : - )
LOL
Dave
From: "Stadem, Richard D." <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 01/24/2014 03:32 PM
Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Answer, for FEQAB review
and appeal.
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Dear Mr. Hillman
I strenuously object and request that this email be formally considered an
appeal to the FEQAB board because the clues for this week's question used
the generic name Ununhexium. The correct term is hexium. This is because
everyone knows the latest research (and my pragmatic common sense) show
that unhexium is not-hexium (or hexium, not), and therefore un-unhexium is
not not-hexium, meaning it is hexium. In addition, I could find no
research that supported the clue statement that Livermorium could possibly
be a colorless gas in its natural state, as there is plenty of evidence it
has never been actually seen in its natural state and absence of evidence
of color is not evidence of absence of color, especially since there is no
known instrumentation that could capture any light spectrum or diffracture
while passing through this element in its short half-life of one billionth
of a second, or whatever it was.
Mr. Hillman, I ask if you have ever met anyone who has stated that they
have actually seen Livermorium gas? I challenge you to produce a credible
witness or viable research with proof of the visibility of Livermorium. I
think a 5 x 7 .pdf image of the refractory spectrum with appropriate test
documentation would be adequate.
In researching the answer, this was a source of confusion and therefore
disqualifies the descriptive clues provided in this week's question. As
such, there can be no real winner except by sheer dumb luck, and the
weekly winner's archives should therefore show an asterisk behind the
respected Mr. Woodall's and Mr. Feyereisen's name.
If it had not been for those two incorrectly-stated clues I know I would
have won. Easily. Nooooo problemoooo.
Signed,
Richard D. Stadem
Sr. Advanced Engineer/Scientist
GENERAL DYNAMICS ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS
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-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David D. Hillman
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 2:22 PM
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Subject: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Answer
Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Answer:
The Question:
This element is presumed to be a colorless gas in its natural state. It is
produced by bombarding atoms of curium-248 with calcium-48 ions. It was
given a "real" name in 2012. What element is being described?
The Answer:
The element is Livermorium (Lv)! Element 116 was named Livermorium in
honor of the Livermore National Laboratory by the IUPAC in 2012. Lv was
discovered in December of 2000 and per IUPAC rules initially given the
generic name ununhexium. Lv is believe to have similar properties to
polonium and tellurium due to its location in the Periodic table. It is
also believed to be a colorless gas in its natural state.
The winners of the weekly element quiz are Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. and
Ron Feyereisen, Sigmatron Int. They will split the services of Clumpy and
Kloumpios for the week. I did not specify I wanted the official element
name so Ron's response was deemed correct by the FEQAB. Ron - let me know
where your facility is at and the boys will go there after spending a
couple of days at Leland's facility.
And next week I'll find a horribly ugly US East coast time to send out the
Quiz question! :-)
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
Week 21 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell
Week 21 David Bealer, Watch Fire Signs
Week 22 Phil Kinner
Week 23 Guy Ramsey, RD Circuits
Week 24 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger
Week 25 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
Week 26 Paul Reid, PWB Interconnect Solutions Inc
Week 27 Greg Munie, IPC
Week 28 Steve Gregory
Week 29 Gus Trakas, Viasystems
Week 29 Steve Creswick
Week 30 Robert Welch, Moog Component Group
Week 31 Heidi Havelka, Interplex Sunbelt
Week 32 Raye Rivera, Canoga Perkins
Week 33 Steve Creswick
Week 34 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell
Week 35 Don Vischulis
Week 36 Greg Munie, IPC
Week 37 Larry Dzaugis
Week 37 Bonus Question Steve Mikell
Week 38 Curt McNamara, Logic PD
Week 38 Bonus Question Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell
- deferred the boys to Curt's facility
Week 39 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
- Tell the guys I'm giving them a late Christmas present, and they can
spend the week at home with their wives fulfilling their own set of
chores. Maybe they'll get a chance to get back to NC a little later on in
the year, and it will be warm enough to go fishing at the coast.
Week 40 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
- assisted with ????
Week 40 Ron Feyereisen, Sigmatron Int.
- assisted with ????
Everyone have a safe week.
Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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