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Re:LK-99 by yellowcake0 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:52PM (#36899201)
this doesn't even make sense
Re:LK-99 by optimalsolver on Thursday July 27, 2023 @04:35PM (#36899777)
What's confusing you?
Re:LK-99 by hcks on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:12PM (#36900234)
It’s cringe, dude.
Re:LK-99 by optimalsolver on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:34PM (#36900460)
Dude, you're now in the LK-99 Age. Learn to live with it.
Re:LK-99 by yellowcake0 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:13PM (#36900245)
it's not confusing, it's just silly, the Iron Age ended over 2000 years ago, so there were just no ages between the birth of Christ and LK-99?
Re:LK-99 by optimalsolver on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:31PM (#36900437)
None which are generally accepted by historians that happen to be named after a single substance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-age_system

Re:LK-99 by yellowcake0 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:25PM (#36900964)
Those are only for prehistory.

In any case it's a pretty silly contrivance, how about the oil age? or the silicon age? Both of those are likely to remain more impactful than the LK-99 age, in the event that it does turn out to be an ambient temp/pressure superconductor.

Re:LK-99 by optimalsolver on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:46PM (#36901128)
If replicated, those are gonna be footnotes to LK-99 and its likely many derivatives and close cousins.
Re:LK-99 by maxbond on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:26PM (#36900966)
[New person]

Alright, but if we're going to be relying on the authority of historians, they don't recognize the LK-99 age anymore then they recognize the steel, plastics/petroleum products, or silicon age though.

I can't speak for anyone else but what struck me as off about it was that it felt like boosterism for a technology that's so new and poorly understood it that we may find out it doesn't actually work at any moment. Even if it does work, we have no idea if it's useful in real applications or if it needs another decade of refinement. It reminded me of AI and cryptoasset evangelism, and made me inwardly groan, "here we go again...."

You don't have to write comments according to my preferences, I didn't downvote your comment fwiw, that's just how I saw it.