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nandomrumbertoday at 12:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

The Alchemists were right, just not ambitious enough.

If they’d’ve started with turning hydrogen in to gold they’d’ve had more success, and we’d be a space fairing species by now.


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fookertoday at 12:36 PM

Step 1: yeet mercury into a mini sun.

If this actually works, I'm going to be convinced that some alchemist overheard an alien dude talking about this but misinterpreted it in line with contemporary knowledge.

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cindyllmtoday at 12:37 PM

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runlaszloruntoday at 1:40 PM

It's not their fault, they didn't have lean startup and blitz scaling yet. </s>