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Re:Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'st... by Izkata on Friday December 13, 2024 @01:13AM (#42406314)
> claimed to be a stable building material.

Element 115 wasn't a building material, it was supposed to exhibit antigravity properties under the right circumstances and was part how UFOs flew in such abnormal patterns.

Re:Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'st... by yencabulator on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:09AM (#42409083)
Can't search the images but one of the quotes is

> We enter the first order of business is checking for E115 then leaving the ship together to send it away.

Once again, E115 decays fully (multiple half-lifes, very little left) in mere seconds and is very radioactive.

Re:Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'st... by CaptainSamJohn on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:17AM (#42429351)
> Once again, E115 decays fully (multiple half-lifes, very little left) in mere seconds and is very radioactive.

That said, this only applies to the isotopes we've been able to synthesize so far. It’s not the definitive answer for all possible isotopes. Nuclear physics theories, particularly around the "island of stability," suggest there could be heavier isotopes of Element 115 with more favorable neutron-to-proton ratios. These isotopes might have significantly longer half-lives—potentially lasting seconds, minutes, or even days or weeks.

We simply haven’t discovered these isotopes yet. With better technology and experiments in the future, there’s a chance we might find longer-lived variants of Element 115, but for now, we can only speculate.