• Orcish Weaponry Unlocked - Legendary Orichalcum has been discovered!
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[url="http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/atlantis-legendary-metal-found-in-shipwreck-150106.htm"]Discovery News[/url] [url="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/orichalcum-metal-atlantis-discovered-2600-year-old-shipwreck-off-sicily-1482625"]International Business Times[/url] [url="http://www.techtimes.com/articles/25557/20150110/divers-retrieve-atlantis-metal-orichalcum-from-ancient-shipwreck.htm"]Tech Times[/url] [url="http://www.archaeology.org/news/2874-150107-sicily-orichalcum-metal"]Archaeology.org[/url] [img]http://www.archaeology.org/images/News/1501/031042_600.jpg[/img] [quote]Gleaming cast metal called orichalcum, which was said by Ancient Greeks to be found in Atlantis, has been recovered from a ship that sunk 2,600 years ago off the coast of Sicily. The lumps of metal were arriving to Gela in southern Sicily, possibly coming from Greece or Asia Minor. The ship that was carrying them was likely caught in a storm and sunk just when it was about to enter the port. "The wreck dates to the first half of the sixth century," Sebastiano Tusa, Sicily's superintendent of the Sea Office, told Discovery News. "It was found about 1,000 feet from Gela's coast at a depth of 10 feet." He noted that the 39 ingots found on the sandy sea floor represent a unique finding. "Nothing similar has ever been found," Tusa said. "We knew orichalcum from ancient texts and a few ornamental objects."[/quote] I, for one, think it's cool that there are still metals we need to discover. Also the whole Atlantis thing is pretty cool too.
Skyrim and reality have merged.
They're readying us for our inevitable battle with the Kraken.
i'm still holding out for orichalcum+
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;46900001][url="http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/atlantis-legendary-metal-found-in-shipwreck-150106.htm"]Discovery News[/url] [url="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/orichalcum-metal-atlantis-discovered-2600-year-old-shipwreck-off-sicily-1482625"]International Business Times[/url] [url="http://www.techtimes.com/articles/25557/20150110/divers-retrieve-atlantis-metal-orichalcum-from-ancient-shipwreck.htm"]Tech Times[/url] [url="http://www.archaeology.org/news/2874-150107-sicily-orichalcum-metal"]Archaeology.org[/url] [img]http://www.archaeology.org/images/News/1501/031042_600.jpg[/img] I, for one, think it's cool that there are still metals we need to discover. Also the whole Atlantis thing is pretty cool too.[/QUOTE] It's probably not a true elemental metal. More likely it's an interesting alloy.
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[QUOTE=Aide;46900014]Skyrim and reality have merged.[/QUOTE] So when are they going to set up Realitynexus.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;46900026]I've been waiting to cast Frenzy at the local mall for a while now. My time has come :v:[/QUOTE] Let me guess, Someone stole your sweetroll? [highlight](User was banned for this post ("two game reference shitposts" - Orkel))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;46900024]It's probably not a true elemental metal. More likely it's an interesting alloy.[/QUOTE] Change "probably" to "certainly" and you're completely correct. We've discovered all of the elements on the low-energy island of stability. Unless the metal came from a meteor born in a stellar particle collider then there's pretty much no way it could be an undiscovered element. [quote=Archaeology.org]Analysis of the metal shows that it is an alloy made of copper, zinc, and small percentages of nickel, lead, and iron.[/quote] [editline]10th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=yellowoboe;46900045]So when are they going to set up Realitynexus.[/QUOTE] muh khajiit sex slave
[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;46900024]It's probably not a true elemental metal. More likely it's an interesting alloy.[/QUOTE] It absolutely isn't a new elemental metal, it's a type of brass. [editline]10th January 2015[/editline] I'm late
[QUOTE=NixNax123;46900023]i'm still holding out for orichalcum+[/QUOTE] I shall have the moogles in my employ on standby.
Well shit, let's make some Orichalcum! We have everything necessary and even have the actual metal itself for us to analyze. Let's see if we can make it.
Well it's definitely interesting from an archaeological standpoint. I wonder what the people of Gela would have used this special brass for? Perhaps bells or ornaments? I dunno if these things would have been used to make Antikythera-style clockwork, since the Antikythera clockwork calendar was made of bronze around 2200 years ago, whereas this "orichalcum" brass was on a ship that sunk 2600 years ago. That said apparently brass is a good metal for making gears, so perhaps there are other such "clocks" that were made using brass components instead?
I didn't know orichalcum is a real metal. I thought it was just some fantasy nerd crap that shows up a lot in RPGs
[QUOTE=TornadoAP;46900210]Well shit, let's make some Orichalcum! We have everything necessary and even have the actual metal itself for us to analyze. Let's see if we can make it.[/QUOTE] Why though? We have far superior alloys today.
[QUOTE=Magman77;46900260]Why though? We have far superior alloys today.[/QUOTE] Do we even know what the properties of Orichalcum are? The way the article is worded makes it seem like we never had a physical sample to study before.
Orichalcum is just glorified brass with a stupid name
It's very unlikely we will [I]ever[/I] discover a [I]new[/I] metal, even anywhere else in space. We have predicted quite solidly the form and behavior of pretty much all elements up until the ones that are very unstable and have half-life of fraction of second, which means they are technically an element that exists but you can't exactly make anything out of it as it will decay into lighter elements right in your hands (and immediately kill you with radiation). It's also very unlikely we will discover any significantly different alloy from these we use today, as our material science is now largely focusing on materials with 3D nuclear matrixes like carbon fiber, buckyballs, graphene and such, and by principle these are bound to have more interesting properties than most alloys as far as strength and strength per weight goes.
2015 needs to be the year of archaeology.
Does it have any other properties than ordinary brass?
[QUOTE=booster;46900315]Does it have any other properties than ordinary brass?[/QUOTE] +5% magic resistance
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;46900298]It's very unlikely we will [I]ever[/I] discover a [I]new[/I] metal, even anywhere else in space. We have predicted quite solidly the form and behavior of pretty much all elements up until the ones that are very unstable and have half-life of fraction of second, which means they are technically an element that exists but you can't exactly make anything out of it as it will decay into lighter elements right in your hands (and immediately kill you with radiation). It's also very unlikely we will discover any significantly different alloy from these we use today, as our material science is now largely focusing on materials with 3D nuclear matrixes like carbon fiber, buckyballs, graphene and such, and by principle these are bound to have more interesting properties than most alloys as far as strength and strength per weight goes.[/QUOTE] Weren't there some theoretical stable elements way super high off the periodic table? Something about a supposed "island of stability"?
[QUOTE]"The wreck dates to the first half of the sixth century," Sebastiano Tusa, Sicily's superintendent of the Sea Office, told Discovery News.[/QUOTE] That's amazing.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;46900298]It's very unlikely we will [I]ever[/I] discover a [I]new[/I] metal, even anywhere else in space. We have predicted quite solidly the form and behavior of pretty much all elements up until the ones that are very unstable and have half-life of fraction of second, which means they are technically an element that exists but you can't exactly make anything out of it as it will decay into lighter elements right in your hands (and immediately kill you with radiation). It's also very unlikely we will discover any significantly different alloy from these we use today, as our material science is now largely focusing on materials with 3D nuclear matrixes like carbon fiber, buckyballs, graphene and such, and by principle these are bound to have more interesting properties than most alloys as far as strength and strength per weight goes.[/QUOTE] Fair enough. If we DO discover new stable superheavy elements on some sort of island of stability, it'd probably be something we forged in a supercollider, maybe even using some of the heavier quarks. Speaking of which, if and when we do invent elements using exotic matter, they'd probably need their own periodic tables to distinguish them from the "mundane" elements based around proton-neutron nuclei, since if you have a hydrogen atom with an exotic nucleus (replace the down quark in a proton with a strange quark), it'd have a lot more mass than a hydrogen atom with a normal nucleus, due to the mass of the "rarer" quarks. That said it's probably way more complicated due to stuff like quantum chromodynamics or colour charge or whatever its called (I will not pretend to understand that stuff, the basics of quarks is as deep as I can go), and there would probably be a lot of other complications caused by pairing a larger quark with two smaller ones.
[QUOTE=booster;46900315]Does it have any other properties than ordinary brass?[/QUOTE] Sounds like it would be similar to Naval Brass or C863 Bronze.
[QUOTE=Ardosos;46900370]Weren't there some theoretical stable elements way super high off the periodic table? Something about a supposed "island of stability"?[/QUOTE] I think it's extremely unlikely. The heavier an element gets (more protons+neutrons) the more prone to radioactive decay it becomes. That's why the elements currently highest on the periodic table have lifespans of a few milliseconds or so - a few atoms exist long enough to be detected and observed, then they decay into smaller elements and alpha/beta particles because they're simply too unstable. Even the proposed "island of stability" theoretical elements are predicted to have lifespans of just a few seconds.
So is there any particular reason they're referring to this stuff as orichalcum?
[QUOTE=RobbL;46900679]So is there any particular reason they're referring to this stuff as orichalcum?[/QUOTE] Yes, there is. Read the articles and find out.
Alloys are metal as fuck. For some reason I always thought Orichalcum was another name for Hepatizon, also known as Black Bronze (due to the addition of silver/gold in the bronze producing a liver-coloration.) [editline]10th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Awesomecaek;46900298]It's very unlikely we will [I]ever[/I] discover a [I]new[/I] metal, even anywhere else in space. We have predicted quite solidly the form and behavior of pretty much all elements up until the ones that are very unstable and have half-life of fraction of second, which means they are technically an element that exists but you can't exactly make anything out of it as it will decay into lighter elements right in your hands (and immediately kill you with radiation). It's also very unlikely we will discover any significantly different alloy from these we use today, as our material science is now largely focusing on materials with 3D nuclear matrixes like carbon fiber, buckyballs, graphene and such, and by principle these are bound to have more interesting properties than most alloys as far as strength and strength per weight goes.[/QUOTE] There's always Neutronium.
[QUOTE=Ardosos;46900370]Weren't there some theoretical stable elements way super high off the periodic table? Something about a supposed "island of stability"?[/QUOTE] Well it could happen, but that's why I am saying [I]unlikely[/I], not [I]impossible[/I]. [editline]11th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Canuhearme?;46900764] There's always Neutronium.[/QUOTE] It's not really a true element as it can't form real atoms (neutral electric charge, thusly can't hold electron envelope), and generally it's meant to behave as a pretty nasty cunt so I don't think it's something you will be able to like, touch, or build a spaceship of, without your eyeballs exploding or something.
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