Anyone Here Know About Elements?

POSTED BY: DarkHood
UPDATED: Thursday, June 3, 2004 18:38
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ANNIK

Sunday, May 30, 2004 1:31 AM

The only element I know much about is the Fifth. She's a gorgeous female-analogue with bright orangey-red hair and really nice teeth. Speaks gibberish in Armenian and looks good in a variety of skin-clinging-type outfits.

I have no idea as to the weight of her various parts or her periods.

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

TJACK

Tuesday, June 1, 2004 5:52 PM

Everything I know about the elements I was taught by Venus Fly-Trap.

When faced with a moral question I ask myself; "What would The Lone Ranger do?"

ANNIK

Tuesday, June 1, 2004 9:46 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Tjack:
Everything I know about the elements I was taught by Venus Fly-Trap.

When faced with a moral question I ask myself; "What would The Lone Ranger do?"

I think Venus played 'The Four Seasons' ... but what did he do about the elements? Inquiring minds want to know!

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

CYBERSNARK

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 2:48 PM

My knowledge of the elements is mostly alchemical.

The Western (European, and by extension American) elements are Earth, Wind, Water, Fire, and Spirit. Spirit, being the only "mental" element, is the most powerful of the four, and is manifested in all living beings.

In (somewhat lesser-known) Chinese cosmology, there's another system of elements: Fire, Water, Earth, Metal, and Wood.

Sometimes people conflate the two and add Wind to the Chinese system, and merge Earth, Metal, and Wood (since Metal comes from rocks, and Wood grows in earth).

I know this because I use the Element motif in my writing, for the Dragon myth of Creation (each race of dragons has stewardship over one element: Wyrms breath fire, Shen live in rivers, Sphinx live in the desert, and Quetzal have no legs, so must remain airborne). Also, the four elements, in their primal form, worked together to form life (Earth formed a basin to hold Water, Fire [the Sun] stirred Air and created Lightning [a fifth element]. Lightning touched the silty water, and created living cells).

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FLOATER68

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 3:37 PM

Just the other day, I was interested in knowing if sodium was a metal and I googled to this really cool site:
http://www.chemicalelements.com/
I think it has a lot of what your looking for.

F68

TJACK

Thursday, June 3, 2004 6:38 PM

For Inquiring Minds:
On the TV show WKRP in Cinncinati one of the characters named Venus Fly-Trap (played by Tim Reid) helped a gang kid understand the atom by decribingit as a gang neighborhood.
The protons were "the Pros" and the electrons were "the Elected Ones" and so on.
The scene also set up some backstory that Venus was a High School teacher before he became a DJ.

When faced with a moral question I ask myself; "What would The Lone Ranger do?"

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