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  1. Jul 8th, 2004, 04:13 PM #1
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    Technical Terms

    I found these technical terms for common every day events in New Scientist:

    Explosion = Spontaneous Rapid Disassembly Event
    Fire = Uncontolled Thermal Event
    Bursting = Unplanned Loss of Containment
    Crash = Deconstructive Deceleration
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    Re: Technical Terms

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    Nuclear Meltdown - Unrequested fission surplus
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    Baldness - Chronological forehead encroachment.
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    Re: Technical Terms

    Quote Originally Posted by visualAd
    I found these technical terms for common every day events in New Scientist:

    Explosion = Spontaneous Rapid Disassembly Event
    Fire = Uncontolled Thermal Event
    Bursting = Unplanned Loss of Containment
    Crash = Deconstructive Deceleration

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    Re: Technical Terms

    Quote Originally Posted by visualAd
    Bursting = Unplanned Loss of Containment
    Is it really technical?
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    Re: Technical Terms

    Melting - Diminishing Structural Integrity Due To Positive Thermal Imbalance

    Editorial Deadline (De) - Hypothetical Point in Near Future At Which Work Remaining Must Equal Nil. (footnote: De always lapses before W=0)
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    jargon = usage of discombobulated language resulting in cerebral obtuseness
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    Implode - when something sucks so badly it goes bang. Apple Mac units have been known to do this.
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    Fast - Velocitous and expedient change of displacement from a given spacial coordinate. e.g. in "fast" vehicles, often attributable to adornment with acceleration enhancing decals referred to colloquially as "Go Faster Stripes".
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    Green - The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers.
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    computer crash = impromptu incompetency-induced leisure time
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    Plain English - The prescribed technique of employing comprehensible and unambiguous speech or literature to convey insight or information to another person or entity in such a manner as to avoid condescension and superciliousness that could conceivably and detrimentally affect the guidance thereby imparted.

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    Police = Governmental instrument of exaggerated ineptitude.
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    Post office = Arcane mail delivery system
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    Petroleum - Plant and animal based explosive corrosive liquid propellant.
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    Telephone - Lit "Distance sound" Enables vocal communication over unlimited distances by means of electromagnetic and electrostatic signals transmitted via radio waves and lengths of extruded copper.
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