Joe Rogan on science: what the evidence says · JRE #2152
SUBJECT: SCIENCE
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This is a system that uses a stable element called element 115 that was just theoretical until they discovered that it actually exists in a particle collider in the two thousands.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Element 115 (moscovium) was first synthesized in 2003 by a joint Russian-American team at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, by accelerating calcium-48 ions into an americium-243 target; the discovery was independently verified and the element was officially named in 2016 by IUPAC. This synthesis used a heavy-ion accelerator that fuses nuclei together, not a particle collider of the kind used to smash particles at high energy for physics experiments, and it produced only a handful of atoms rather than a usable stable material. Moscovium is intensely radioactive, with the most stable known isotope having a half-life well under one second (around 0.65 seconds for moscovium-290, roughly 220 milliseconds for moscovium-289), the opposite of the stable, weaponizable, anti-gravity fuel source described by Bob Lazar. The 2003-2016 discovery and naming of element 115 is real and well-documented, but it does not corroborate Lazar's specific claims about a stable element used for propulsion; current science regards moscovium as an extremely short-lived synthetic element with no known anti-gravity properties.