Most dudes are weak against any rock. Rocks are very good at inducing skull fractures if you're not Superman, and stone knives were a thing, too. There's a reason why stone tools were popular for literally millions of years.
That picture is uranium though? In the picture it has yellow oxides forming on the outside.
In the same way that if someone posted a picture of a rusty piece of iron, we'd still say it was iron, even though iron is a silvery-grey metal, but in the picture, it would be reddish/brown.
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mr_account@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 246d
Don't even need to go that far. History has shown us that just throwing a non-radioactive rock at someone is a weakness
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 246d
I argue that the entire history of weapon development has been "figure out better way to throw better rock".
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 28 pts · 246d
It’s funny when you learn that an ‘advanced weapon’ in hypothetical interplanetary warfare is ‘fling an asteroid into their planet’.
officermike@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 246d
For conventional weapons, sure. But I don't think your description fits flamethrowers, sonic, or laser weaponry.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 246d
Flamethrowers use oil products, which are part of petrochemistry. "Petro" comes from the Greek word for "rock".
mr_account@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 246d
Liquid dino-rock
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 246d
plankto-rock, if we want to pedant (and we do)
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 246d
Flamethrower - throw burning rock Sonic - throw tiny rocks Laser - throw even tinier rocks
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 20 pts · 246d
You could even argue that throwing rocks is (one of) the human superpower(s).
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 25 pts · 246d
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 21 pts · 246d
Most dudes are weak against any rock. Rocks are very good at inducing skull fractures if you're not Superman, and stone knives were a thing, too. There's a reason why stone tools were popular for literally millions of years.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 233d
we're also quite weak against.. most things, on the whole. It's more a matter of what doesn't instantly kill us
RustyShackleford@piefed.social · 13 pts · 246d
Don’t quote me, but that’s pyrite or chalcopyrite, right?
Trail@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 245d
Chalcopyright.
cyberslask@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 246d
According to some evolutionary scientists, the art of throwing rocks is the reason our brains needed to get so large. Here is one source:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/696721
Cattail@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 246d
I would have chosen arsenic as human weakness
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 246d
Nah, if you hold arsenic in my general vicinity, I'll feel extremely emotionally uncomfortable, but physically fine.
Cattail@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 246d
Now I'm thinking there has to be an element where all isotopes are radioactive, because uranium doesn't radiate all the time
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 6 pts · 246d
I never claimed to have super powers.
ech@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 246d
It's really bugging me that the title is missing a word. It doesn't track with the music.
Nima@leminal.space · 3 pts · 246d
I noticed it as well. "If I go crazy then will you still call me super man?"
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 246d
That picture is NOT Uranium:
bisby@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 246d
That picture is uranium though? In the picture it has yellow oxides forming on the outside.
In the same way that if someone posted a picture of a rusty piece of iron, we'd still say it was iron, even though iron is a silvery-grey metal, but in the picture, it would be reddish/brown.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 246d
Thanks, I did not know that!