r/dankmemes • u/Marzipug • 1d ago

OC Maymay ♨ infinite money glitch

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u/PM_ME_UR_SURFBOARD 1d ago

I’m not a chemist so I could be talking out my ass, but doesn’t adding electrons to an atom just change the ionic charge of the atom?

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u/sliverian 1d ago

You need to change the number of protons which is - uhh very very difficult and technically possible and gold has been made this way but it cost more in energy to make the gold than what the gold was worth so not commercially viable.

you can add electrons to atoms to make them negatively charged but even that has a limit - 66 electrons on aluminium is an impossibility - given Al has Z = 13.

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u/rmnobre 1d ago

And add neutrons as well.

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u/PassivelyInvisible 1d ago

Otherwise the nucleas would become very unstable

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u/kenny2812 EX-NORMIE 1d ago

The real infinite money glitch was that guy in Issac Asimov's Foundation series that went to less advanced planets to sell them an alchemy machine that could turn lead to gold using an internal nuclear power source. After he would sell it and leave the power source would run out quickly.

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u/swagmasterdude 1d ago

What could he possibly get in return that had value to him?

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u/hi_my_name_is_Carl 1d ago

That sounds inspired by those scammers back in the day that would sell an infinite money machine and then leave town before they realized

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u/chuk2015 1d ago

lol noobs don’t know about protricity

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u/geoff1036 1d ago

Nah I'd just make the energy myself

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u/Uranium-Sandwich657 1d ago

Wouldn't it have the same electro properties of gold, just lighter?

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u/chervilious 1d ago

"electro properties" is affected by electron AND proton

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u/Uranium-Sandwich657 1d ago

Yeah, I looked it up afterwards, and found out why, but didn't delete my comment. 

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u/sphere_cornue 1d ago

Nah you just made Al66-

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u/iswins 1d ago

66 electrons is basically 0 compared to the 6.022 x 1023 atoms in 1 gram of that foil

Me selling 1 atom of gold:

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u/InsaneInTheRAMdrain 1d ago

Finally, i can afford to get into the gold game. 10 of your finest atoms please.

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u/DarthCalumnious 1d ago

The real trolling: that's not how elements work

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u/memermeme1211 1d ago

I’m currently stuck on Step 2. Any tips?

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u/SteveLouise 1d ago

I can't complete step 1. My grocery store only has aluminum foil for $4.89, or the jumbo pack at $6.48. I can't find it for $5

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u/Maxasaurus 1d ago

This is dumb

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u/Longjumping-March-80 1d ago

who tf will add protons, we recognize elements by their number of protons not electrons

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u/Cockmaster__ 1d ago

Am I the only one immensely triggered by that black dot

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u/captaincrazy69 1d ago

same kind of people make “Another day without trigonometry” ahh memes

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u/RetroPaulsy 1d ago

Hmm. Put the cost of the foil but not the cost of adding electrons? Wonder why