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