YouDoNotKnowMyName Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Hello everybody! It took me a while to realize this, but the "quicksilver ingots" don't make any sense. Mercury (quicksilver) melts at about -37,8 °C, making it the only metal that is in liquid form at "room temperature".So having an actual ingot of the stuff makes no sense. It would be more realistic to have a flask filled with it, but as it has a really high density, having one of those large vase - things full of mercury would be nearly impossible to carry around :laugh:. I know, it's just a game, but this is just so ... wrong ...I get why they did it, they just took the basic ingot item and gave it a different texture for each metal, but still, it annoys me.Maybe I will make a mod that replaces all "quicksilver ingots" with "quicksilver filled flasks". And you could have a option to maybe mix it with frost salts to get the quicksilver into a "solid form", I don't know .... I don't really know why I posted this here ... Just my thoughts ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lachdonin Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Quicksilver in Tamriel is not mercury. The leading theory is that it's just another name for Mithril in TES. It's the same issue as TES' Dragons technically being Wyverns (in British heraldry, anyway). In-universe rules come first, real-world inspiration second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouDoNotKnowMyName Posted January 9, 2020 Author Share Posted January 9, 2020 Oh, ok!That makes sense. I don't know much about Mithril, but I personally think the "quicksilver" stuff is an alloy made of mercury and maybe another soft metal like tin or something like that.So it's kind of like corundum: When I first played Skyrim and encountered that metal I thought "Oh looks like copper" but no. (Copper + Iron does not make steel IRL).Yeah, looks like real life metallurgy does not apply in Tamriel :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadeybladey Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 CorundumDescription Corundum is a crystalline form of aluminium oxide typically containing traces of iron, titanium, vanadium and chromium. It is a rock-forming mineral. It is also a naturally transparent material, but can have different colors depending on the presence of transition metal impurities in its crystalline structure. Wikipedia Streak: WhiteSpecific gravity: 3.95–4.10Melting point: 2,044 °C (3,711 °F)Refractive index: nω = 1.767–1.772; nε = 1.759–1.763Sapphire: Any color except redRuby: Red Corundum probably does not make a good metal alloy in reality, but corundum dust and sand was used by the ancient Egyptians to polish granite and drill holes in things. So when you see morons like Lyin' Brien Foerster et al talking about "IMPOSSIBLE without diamond-tipped tools", you know to say "Yeah, cool story, bro..." :rolleyes: :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouDoNotKnowMyName Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 Wow, I didn't know that there was a material in real life that was called Corundum. I guess you learn something new everyday :laugh: I don't know what you are talking about with the "IMPOSSIBLE without diamond-tipped tools" thing ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadeybladey Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Oh, there are a bunch of frauds who do very interesting nonsense, because they deal with real archaeology and architectural structures, but lie through their teeth about it. Sitchin, von Daniken etc Ancient Aliens, Atlantis, all that nonsense. Lyin' Brien Fraudster is one of those who insists that the Egyptians could not have made their statues, bowls etc without diamond-tipped tools. Sadly, he also thinks that the obelisks (which represent rays of the Sun) were antennae for a world-wide, wi-fi radio system. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouDoNotKnowMyName Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 Ah, ok, so just people beeing "different". Nothing new :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lachdonin Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Stitchen, von Daniken, Foerester... All you're missing is Gardner and you've struck my rage-quartet. Any time i so much as HEAR their names on tv or youtube, i feel the beast welling in my stomach. Hell, Stitchen almost managed to ruin Mystery Inc for me, and i KNOW Scooby Doo is fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouDoNotKnowMyName Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 Stitchen, von Daniken, Foerester... All you're missing is Gardner and you've struck my rage-quartet. Any time i so much as HEAR their names on tv or youtube, i feel the beast welling in my stomach. Hell, Stitchen almost managed to ruin Mystery Inc for me, and i KNOW Scooby Doo is fiction.I don't really watch TV or get into all of the "conspiracy" and "alien" stuff anymore, so I don't have those problems :tongue:I used to be all about that stuff, but now I just worry about the problems I can actually solve myself or that impact my life directly.Yes, that means I am a bit "disconnected" from what's going on in the world, but it is better for me that way!That's one of the reasons why I love playing Skyrim. To me it feels like I can make a (positive) difference, unlike in the real world where I get overwhelmed with problems that I can't solve. I also usually don't get "triggered" by real-life-stuff, but artificial game limitations (for example the custom worldspace size limit +-64 cells in the X axis, now that gets my blood boiling, because it is affecting my life directly -> I can't create very large worldspaces in Skyrim or Fallout4). By the way, this is really getting off topic (from quicksilver ingots to alien-conspiracy to my crazy brain, but I guess that's just how the internet works, right? :laugh: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadeybladey Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Stitchen, von Daniken, Foerester... All you're missing is Gardner and you've struck my rage-quartet. LOL! Ain't it the truth? I've not had a TV for years, but I loved scooby Doo as a kid! Gardner I don't know, but Lloyd Pye, John Anthony West, Graham Hancock etc. Charlatans and Frauds one and all. If like the genuine stuff, try Digital Hammurabi on YouTube for Assyriology, DS Anderson (Twitter, not YT) and the old Non Sequitur shows where these guys were guests. Before Kyle ruined it all :( D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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