Michael P Gibson(@William_Blake):Isaac Newton spent decades huffing mercury fumes in a Cambridge cellar, grinding lead into a worthless sludge while praying to the gods of alchemy. Now Marathon can use its reactor blanket to turn mercury-198 into stable gold by the ton. The alchemist will lose to the atom.

Michael P Gibson

@William_Blake

Coffeehouse radical capitalist. Gutter whiskey poet. Cofounder 1517 Fund + Thiel Fellowship

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Michael P Gibson@William_Blake

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Isaac Newton spent decades huffing mercury fumes in a Cambridge cellar, grinding lead into a worthless sludge while praying to the gods of alchemy. Now Marathon can use its reactor blanket to turn mercury-198 into stable gold by the ton. The alchemist will lose to the atom.

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