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jueves, 26 de noviembre de 2015

HIGH TECH GIST FOR A NICKEL: STRATEGIC METALS FOR TRANS-HUMANS AND POST-HUMANS

Source: Wikipedia.

By Gundhramns Hammer
November 26, 2015


In the olden days when people could get more for their money, kids used to get happy when their parents gave them a nickel, a five-cent coin composed of copper and nickel and minted in the United States. 

Why so much fuss about a nickel for the kids? 

Simple. Because with a nickel, kids could run to the nearest grocery store in their neighbourhood to get a couple of candies and put a smile on their faces. 

At least for a while, for when rotten back teeth hurt, they can make you touch hell for sure.

Today you cannot buy shit with a nickel. Everything is sky high.

However, generally speaking, people are familiar with the word nickel

Everybody knows all about nickel or has heard of nickel at least once in his or her fucking life.

As man dug deeper into his screwy home-made Pandora´s science box, other metals such as iron, copper, lead and aluminium, for example, have also fully entered popular language. 

Yeah, especially lead, for this metal is poisonous to animals and humans. Lead can screw up your nervous system, making you dumber that the Illuminati´s old world order already has you with their fucking chemtrails or other damn tricks. 

Lead can also easily ship you to the general human storehouse: the cemetery. End of your Earth-screwing line.

Perhaps, in a few decades in the future, post-humanoid folks on the street will be talking about dysprosium or neodynium, for instance, just like you now can talk about junk food, ketchup or even a sporadic happy screw. 

For the time being, most folks ain´t. 

People might encounter these words here and there written on the newspapers, but for the most part these words still sound too funny to the ears of most Transhomo insapiens

Nevertheless, modern living has already, directly or indirectly, been dysprosionated or neodynionated, for 21st century´s high tech depends on both of these two and other rare metals. 

The rare dysprosium and neodynium babies are what experts call "strategic metals"

There are a bunch of strategic metals on man´s list, so far. And they are not common stuff. Not common like the hairs on your head, providing you still have any left after living off an ET diet.

Although most people have no idea what the heck any of these metals are all about or they do not give a fuck about them, strategic metals are something to worry about in order to continue with the present high tech party which may one day put an end to man himself.  

According to Moss et al. (2011), there are 14 strategic metals to worry about. These 14 metals are, in order of decreasing demand: tellurium, indium, tin, hafnium, silver, dysprosium, gallium, neodymium, cadmium, nickel, molybdenum, vanadium, niobium and selenium.

And Moss et al. (2011)´s report singles out 5 of the 14 metals to be at high risk for the high tech party, particularly: the rare earth metals neodymium and dysprosium, and the by-products (from the processing of other metals) indium, tellurium and gallium.

Table 1 shows you the market and political factors of these 14 metals. Let us check man´s high tech gist for the price of a nickel:

Table 1. Strategic metals needed for the high tech party. Source: Moss et al. (2011).



Now you know the names of the strategic metals needed for today´s trans-humans and tomorrow´s post-humans

If you wish to impress your neighbour, your buddies or make your love partner mad with your cheap talk about strange metals, you should start memorising the names of these babies now.

On the other hand, you don´t need do that unless your school days are not yet over. Just continue with your daydreaming which has been dreamed for your dreams which are not your dreams but someone else´s dreams who has already dreamed them for your dreams to keep you dreaming in their global power dream.

Anyway, for more detail on the importance of these metallic babies, check out the paper below.


References

Moss, R.L., Ztimas E., Kara H., Willis P. & Kooroshy J. (2011). Critical Metals in Strategic Energy Technologies: Assessing Rare Metals as Supply-Chain Bottlenecks in Low-Carbon Energy Technologies. European Commission, JRC Scientific and Technical Reports, EUR 24884 EN. 164 p.

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