Yep, and I was one of them...
Good pun!

Sorry, slow on the draw lately...I get it! Hahaha :)

Guffow!

No one at all commented on my tongue-in-cheek use of "elementary," which is the only reason I wrote what I wrote.

HAHA.

Really good one.

hard to tell the difference between Bernie's ideas and magic...

so that's the way they're gonna do it. . and, all this time,
I was thinking that it was magic. -- j
.

That was my impression also. Maybe they take the "Table name" literally..."Periodic" ...these new elements appear Periodically...(only after we do this or that) sad by funny.

Allo.. I've got a Periodic Table pinned above my desk that all of those placeholders clearly labeled.
And the date of the publication was April 17, 2006.
Case Closiummed... :)

And if the physicists just take a break for a decade or two, would the next "discovery" be Moratorium?

In Bernie's bag of tricks for how to pay for all his promises...

Me, too, and I replied to one of the few comments at that link, for the same reason.
Yes, North America DID exist... had been 'created' long before Columbus knew what salt spray in the face felt like, but Never Having Seen It Before, for HIM, and many Europeans, it was Definitely a Discovery... seeing something that had been there (maybe for a very long time,) but not having been seen by certain groups (even tho Columbus wasn't the first to set foot there... for Him and His Buddies, it certainly WAS a 'discovery.'
Now, as to the 'new elements,' odds are damned good that few, if any of them HAD existed prior to their atom-smashing Creation, and since they decayed so quickly after 'creation,' odds are even better that there Were No Such Examples of those Elements around for Anyone To Notice (i.e., discover) ever before. They were nearly simultaneously created and discovered at the same time, if you want to stretch things a little. But the Creation came first, then the detection to prove they actually existed, so someone could say they 'discovered' 'em.
Please be more careful with logic and words.
Thanks.... no, not you gg... the other guys.

Most "pure" research is tax-funded. This is why the EPA, and similar agencies overseas, has such an ability to corrupt the organizations of the science establishment worldwide.

Reason did a piece years ago on a scientist who had been blackballed by EPA and his career destroyed for suggesting that the low pH (acid content) of lakes in New England might be the result of acidic soils rather than acid rain. I have no doubt whatever that they have doubled down when it comes to climate change. Rand predicted it perfectly, and EPA is the State Science Institute.

For what it's worth, though, funding "pure" research in a non-mooching world would be a hard problem economically, because its benefits are hard to limit to just the people who paid for them.

That also can be applied to certain member of the Washington Elite. They mostly seem to have clouded minds already.

Good one.

and where are imaginarium and manurium? -- j
.

Thanks, I just developed more laugh lines...:)

...momentium...?

CloudsMen'sMindsium?

Many years ago when I was in high school (in New Jersey), the chemistry teacher often wielded his meter stick. When a deserving slacker offered a particularly bad answer, he's get smacked in the arm.
When asked, "What is Avogadro's Number?" one fellow answered, "3×10 to the eighth." Smack! The same question went to the guy seated next to the slacker. "6.02×10 to the 23rd." The teacher said, "Right." The slacker said, "Oh, that was my second choice." That got him another smack, to which he responded, "I deserved it."

Which gas law relates pressure and temperature of a gas? The girl who responded, "It's that Gay guy!" would have been smacked, but everyone, including the teacher, was laughing too hard.
[That pressure and temperature vary directly is Gay-Lussac's Law after French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac.]

lol. Except that we might someday discover faster-than-light travel to colonize that planet. There's no feasible use for these ultra-heavy elements other than scientific curiosity.

Oh, come now...these are just as valuable to mankind as the discovery of an Earth like planet, a mere 400 light years away.