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- gus_massa 12y ago24Magnesium is a dead end. It'd be a good idea to use a different font color to mark it. (What happens with the 24Magnesium in the real stars?) Edit: From a comment in another thread by ISL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7607397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7607397 > I'm getting trapped at Mg24. Following the alpha-process, I should be able to stuff in another alpha to get to Silicon, but it's not happening, nor is it listed in the fusion rules below the game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_process .
- ISL 12y agoIt's a dead end, but it makes the game kind of interesting (I just exclaimed in the office 'I got to SILICON! Now I can rip up the alpha process to iron! Muahahahahahaha! Then I got iron, and the game was over). If you can just hammer alphas (Helium nuclei), the game is sorta dull. I think there's still a ton of merit to this basic idea: Playing on a larger board initially full of hydrogen, allowing correct branching of decay products (so you keep getting back hydrogen in random locations), and allowing fission could be a (complicated) lot of fun.