Josh Clark

He threw his lot in with the four elements in part because he totally rejected Democritus' assertion that there was such a thing as atoms moving in a void, in free space.

Yeah.

They might not melt down, but if everything went wrong,

Because they have an equal number of protons and electrons.

And we did it.

I don't remember a lot about the details, but remember we did a podcast on antimatter spacecraft.

And now all of a sudden our rubber supply was either cut off or in danger.

the whole thing could blow up.

You lose an electron, all of a sudden you have a positively charged ion and that negatively charged electron running around and it just causes trouble.

Well, and you know what an atomic bomb is.

Gross.

There's a lot of weird ones.

It's a fusion reaction.

So the United States, led by FDR, said, hey, four biggest rubber companies, we're going to get together and we need to come up with a synthetic rubber toot suite.

Press basil between some bricks and you'll get a scorpion?

This is a lot of those all put together in one 100-foot tower.

Oh, yeah.

How amazing those were.

Sure.

He said there's no such thing as a void.