That explains my hair at least ;^)
I had that kind of socialist "logic" applied to my modest (but hard fought and earned) accomplishments in high school.
Guess the wound from that lesson in socialism hasn't healed completely, and never will.

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.

While there are some notable exceptions, most well-educated scientists (at least the ones I know) are rather quite left-leaning. To such people, nothing would be more "correctly-aligned thought" and "socialistically proper" to immortalize "the anointed dear leader" with its name on the one thing that is guaranteed to transcend history - the Periodic Table.

Then again, I understand North Korea claims that the world acknowledges their unparalleled success at discovery of all the elements above 109 on the Table... that's why they all begin with "Un..."

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

CloudsMen'sMindsium?

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.

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... :)

Would that be in the best interest of the companies that provide the textbooks? If so, common sense will prevail. If not...let's require the schools/kids buy each updated text.

I've become rather cynical in my old age.