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Post by ayezatulbrite on Aug 18, 2012 20:36:04 GMT -5
nanocrystalline cellulose
might try and make some myself if I'm feeling particularly mad... will probably end up with paper mache!
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Post by StormInateacup on Aug 18, 2012 22:53:34 GMT -5
A kind of haberdashic Alchemy, do you mean? Well do recall two important points about the practice: "Most alchemists were nervous, in any case; it came from not knowing what the crucible of bubbling stuff they were experimenting with was going to do next." and: "It was the sort of thing you expected in the Street of Alchemists. The neighbours preferred explosions, which were at least identifiable and soon over. They were better than the smells, which crept up on you." -- (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)  eta: His third point is even more salient: By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold. |
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Aug 19, 2012 16:41:57 GMT -5
I did once make a tweeter out of an egg shell! worked quite well actually.
as for making gold... well, there's always cold fusion
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Aug 19, 2012 16:46:34 GMT -5
Making gold is easy. Start a religion.
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Post by StormInateacup on Aug 19, 2012 21:06:21 GMT -5
Making gold is easy. Start a religion.  True enough though, innit??? That's a kind if alchemy too. They make gold out of fuckwits....look at Scientology. The more fuckwitted your base ingredient, the bigger the piles of gold you end up with. |
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Aug 19, 2012 21:09:45 GMT -5
Exactly!
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