Daily Dose of Happiness 2016

Deep Thought-Octarine

A few new elements have been added to the periodic table, and there's a petition going around to call it Octarine after the color of magic in the Discworld book series.

"Pratchett, who died in March 2015, writes in his first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, that octarine is "the King Colour, of which all the lesser colours are merely partial and wishy-washy reflections. It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple."

I think this is the coolest thing, and besides, pretty words.

~Paint_splatt