LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short
What's even more interesting than the mysteries properties of LK-99 is the kind of response it's brought out. You even see it right here in HN.<p>Have you ever seen a Youtube video about someone reviewing a Tesla or comparing it to another car? The comments are always full of hostile and vitriolic remarks by people who are <i>personally offended</i> if the video suggests the cup holders on a Model 3 are less than perfection. For some reason, Tesla is surrounded by a cult of personality where it's not just a car, it's a <i>lifestyle</i>.<p>And bizarrely, something similar is happening with this funny floating rocks. Here we are, on HN, and people in this very thread are calling Nature (<i>Nature!</i>) an "online sensational clickbait magazine" because they want to believe the hype that the rock has properties that they only learned about from Wikipedia a few days prior (and only understood 5% of it, at that)<p>Is there reason to be excited? Hell yeah. Are all the different replication attempts super fascinating? Hell yeah. Could it be the real deal? It could!<p>But this has become some weird spectator sport, where you're either a believer or a skeptic, and if you're on a different side than I am then <i>screw you</i>, even if you are Nature.