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Unobtanium
#1
Unobtanium
Sorry, couldn't resist the title but it one sense it is somewhat accurate.

Bacteria (and plants) that use what is called photosystem II of the Z scheme to split water (pretty much all the Oxygen we breath is a result of this) have the Manganese Center...

[Image: 620px-Manganese_cluster.svg.png]

yet this extremely small molecule which could easily solve all the world's energy needs forever (or until mankind ceases to exist) is unable to be made by any process known to man as of yet. In that sense, it is the true unobtanium.

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#2
RE: Unobtanium
I can make it I'm just lazy Big Grin
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#3
RE: Unobtanium
(April 22, 2012 at 9:20 am)Insanity x Wrote: I can make it I'm just lazy Big Grin

Then you must really be an alien. Tell Ripley I said hello Smile
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#4
RE: Unobtanium
I'm not sure about the molecule, but I know that if man could tap into zero-point energy, we'd have all the power we could ever want or need.
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#5
RE: Unobtanium
But all you have to do is obtain plants, and then therefore you have obtained it. So it's not really unobtainable.
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#6
RE: Unobtanium
Obtain plants, disregard flower-bearing females.
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#7
RE: Unobtanium
Geeks.(jealous)

Phil are you a scientist?
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#8
RE: Unobtanium
Sod Unobtanium, I want Narrativium!
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#9
RE: Unobtanium
When speaking of autotrophs, we are truly standing under the shadow of superior beings with regards to energy. While we spent millions of years trying to walk, or think, these organisms mastered organic chemistry and thus the entire planet, without needing to give the matter a single passing thought.

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#10
RE: Unobtanium
(April 22, 2012 at 3:51 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: Geeks.(jealous)

Phil are you a scientist?

I guess you can say that but I would say more of a degreed lab rat.
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