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asciilifeform: ( and that's on si. on e.g. gallium arsenide, even moar so )
asciilifeform: i suspect that it is even possible to cheat, lower melting temp of the pb with (surprisingly cheap) gallium
mircea_popescu: shinohai : buncha other people are running eulora with gallium 4.0, incl on llvmpipe. that wouldn't likely be it.
assbot: 27 results for 'gallium' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=gallium
asciilifeform: !s gallium
assbot: 25 results for 'gallium' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=gallium
asciilifeform: !s gallium
asciilifeform: ecl miners probably live on the same planet as gallium arsenide, etc. miners.
asciilifeform: and if you're building computers in the tens or hundreds rather than quajizillions quantities there is no reason not to use germanium, gallium arsenide, doped diamond, etc. chemistries
mircea_popescu: does all gallium belong to mendeleev's estate now ?
asciilifeform: physical Bitcoin << two-legged vacuum lamp half filled with gallium.
jurov: http://www.elementsales.com/ecoins.htm interesting tidbits (asciilifeform: gallium coins too)
asciilifeform: BlueMeanie4: how many contracts for the purchase of, e.g, gallium, were written today?
asciilifeform believe or not, has no gallium
punkman: asciilifeform: I think of you when I read gallium now
assbot: 15 results for 'gallium' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=gallium
asciilifeform: !s gallium
BingoBoingo: It might take what, 1, 2 kilograms to fill a small fountain? The gallium might need changed out every couple seasons due to impurities?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, I think retaliation from the Gallium upbidding cartel could take the form of upbidding Indium. iPhones can have problems too.
BingoBoingo: I like the gallium torroid idea. I was thinking I might be useful for creating small bronze scultpures that could be remoulded almost like clay.
mircea_popescu: mike_c how about a btc fund that buys gallium ? :D
assbot: One or Two Ounces of Contaminated Gallium Liquid Metal Read | eBay
asciilifeform: http://www.ebay.com/itm/One-or-two-ounces-of-Contaminated-Gallium-Liquid-Metal-READ-/321427316761?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ad68fa019
asciilifeform: that's actually the part that intrigues me - how do we fake gallium
jurov: there are other amalgams not suitable as solder, but for faking gallium in closed container something can be certainly though of
jurov: BingoBoingo asciilifeform according to pediwikia gallium is incredibly sticky and messy once it melts, and rather poisonous...so, no chains nor cutlery
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why silver is the white metal everyone seems to horde and not gallium << Ga is typically found in bauxite, so it had to wait for cheap Al refinement.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I wonder why silver is the white metal everyone seems to horde and not gallium.
asciilifeform: naive engineer / worker bee might imagine that 'next wave' is gallium arsenide, eldrich optical cpu, etc. - but nope.
nubbins`: Vexual: well, when the value explodes in the future, you can't just sell your gallium coins to samsung or w/e
asciilifeform: or, anybody still alive knows how to wrangle gallium arsenide logic?
asciilifeform: it could also look like a 1m by 1m cube of gallium arsenide optical logic, bathed in liquid He
asciilifeform: anyone know if someone ever built a miner out of discrete emitter-coupled logic (or gallium arsenide, or the like) ?