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Why, comics AND chemistry, of course!
http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/assets/images/metalmen.gif
The Periodic Table of Comic Books
A site devoted to each element showing a list of comic book pages involving that element.

Periodic Table (http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/index.html)


Personally, I think it's kinda cool. But I do have definite nerdy leanings.

Can't find a full link:

http://www.primidi.com/2003/10/14.html

The primary journal is even better (if you know your chemistry)

Got it, go here and click on "full text":
http://www.cas.org/spotlight/rlist3q04j/200410j8.html

Now they just need to make a collectable card game out of it.

Now they just need to make a collectable card game out of it.

Perfect! :p

The Scrooge McDuck strip for oxygen is kinda weird.
Scrooge
(http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/html/u__18_23_o.html)
They land on another planet and state that the atmosphere is breathable, with "nitrogen, oxygen, and a whiff of methane. Just like Earth!"
A whiff of methane?
In effect, he's saying our air smells like farts!
Must be delibrate plant by the writer.

Well i was going to say math...

Well i was going to say math...

Hey. Shut up.:gundge:

Hey. Shut up.:gundge:
Nope.
Math is dumb!

Nope.
Math is dumb!

Not if you're good at it.:)

What's more nerdy than comics or chemistry?

PHYSICS!

:)

This doesn't even make sense!

The nerdiest thing I can think of is when this guy Brian in high school made cards, like baseball cards, for every person in the school. One year he did wrestling characters, and another year he did superheroes/villains. The people who were nice to him were good guys, those who were not were bad guys. My wrestling character apparently wore a tux and top hat as a gimmick (seems like that would be difficult to wrestle in...maybe I wore the top half of a tuxedo and wrestling shorts on the bottom) and my superhero character had the ability to walk right through solid things like walls. I remember this because Brian would often corner me and describe the characters to me while pointing them out in the huge card binder he brought with him to school.

The cards were drawn with crayon and colored pencils, I think.

Not if you're good at it.:)
You only think you are good at it.
hat happens when you find out everything you have been taught or learnt is wrong?

You only think you are good at it.
hat happens when you find out everything you have been taught or learnt is wrong?

See that's the thing about maths. Once you prove something, it can never be wrong.:rolleyes:

See that's the thing about maths. Once you prove something, it can never be wrong.:rolleyes:
Until you realise your whole basis is wrong!
Your very idea is flawed!
Goodnight.:fluffle:

Until you realise your whole basis is wrong!
Your very idea is flawed!
Goodnight.:fluffle:

Basis can't be wrong. The basis is defined as being right.

Night:fluffle:

Y'know, there is actually a webcomic featuring personified elements as heroes.
Silver, and the periodic forces (http://mlatcomics.com/silver_index.html)
(it's very 80's cartoonish)

Y'know, there is actually a webcomic featuring personified elements as heroes.
Silver, and the periodic forces (http://mlatcomics.com/silver_index.html)
(it's very 80's cartoonish)
There was also Sapphire and Steel (http://www.steve-p.org/ss/) back in the 70s that had elemental characters.
And it was an awesome show, really scary at times. I spent 1/2 of each show hiding behind the sofa (I was very young then of course).
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.

Basis can't be wrong. The basis is defined as being right.

Night:fluffle:
Just you wait!

Chemistry is less nerdy than comics by virtue of the fact that that's the way it is.

I think this is a good argument because I can't really think of any other.

But, well, is chemistry even nerdy anymore? Consider: a large proportion of the female population use skin products. A good proportion of the male population, surveys indicate, now do likewise. In order to select their product, they have to understand (no matter how limited this understanding is) something about skin and the molecules that are useful to it's upkeep.

This is biology + chemistry.

Isn't chemistry then too widestream to be truly nerdy?

Of course, arguing about whether chemistry or comics is nerdiest is, indeed, perhaps the most easy way to determine whether one is, in fact, a true nerd. Else we wouldn't be doing so.

Would we?