Comment by WarmWash
5 hours ago
Rumor is that boron existed, but was quickly superseded by carbon. Obviously they are going with alphabetical element names.
5 hours ago
Rumor is that boron existed, but was quickly superseded by carbon. Obviously they are going with alphabetical element names.
I can understand alphabetical ordering in some circumstances, but if the point is to indicate which model family is lighter or heavier, surely atomic numbers should be taken into account?!?
Argon - 18
Boron - 5
Carbon - 6
I don't think I'll be able to cope with this level of elemental disorder.
It's gonna be even worse then they name the 11th iteration Potassium.
They'll never get there since there's no J at all ;)
The naming is elementary, my dear Watson.
I thought Carbon for composable stood well on it's own marketing. As did Argon, for impervious. Next to one another the pair comes off utterly cockeyed and sleazy.
There aren't any _good_ elements that start with the letters D or E. Imagine if they name the next one "Dysprosium" where the Greek root translates to "hard to get at" or "difficult to access" reflecting how difficult it was for its discovers to isolate it in the late 19th century, but also sounds kind of untrustworthy to give an AI model such a name.
The root word of argon is argos which means "lazy" in ancient greek, so I don't know how much mind they are paying to it hah
Deuterium (close enough to an element)? Einsteinium?
This seems like an odd thing to do / a hell of a lot of people are going to learn Dysprosium is an element
I heard they're going to skip D and go straight to the element Earth...
Should have gone with Chromium