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Then there is the Vacuum Catastrophe where Zero point energy is in conflict with Quantum Field Theory where QFT predicts vacuum energy up to 100 orders of magnitude higher than currently observed. I think that description is right... It's better than before where it predicted infinite energy.
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Luneshot posted:For what its worth, as a codename which originated during the Manhattan Project its pretty good. It's technically accurate, but so vague that you can discern basically zero information from it unless you already know what it is. This reminds me of a thing. At a previous job, at some point I met some folks from the department that deals with getting all the national offices to cooperate internationally. He said he was working on something with the internal name of 'Project Orlando', which was just an international IT infrastructure coordination project. So I asked him, why is it called Orlando? He told me, completely seriously, that they had an earlier, similar project called Project Miami, and they decided to stick with the theme of USA place names. So for this project, they decided Manhattan is a cool place and went with the name Project Manhattan. For some unfathomable reason, the people at the Japan office had a problem with this. So it was quickly changed to Project Orlando.
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Skyshine is a cuter and prettier name than you'd expect for something potentially dangerous.
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Zemyla posted:EDIT: As does oxygen holocaust. I would argue that the Great Oxygenation Event belongs in the bottom right corner, not the top left. It was a permanent change in the Earth’s atmosphere, rendering the planet toxic to the vast majority of life and setting off a global ice age lasting three hundred million years.
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K–T gets all the press because people love dinosaurs, but it only killed 75% of species. The P–Tr extinction killed 96%. It even wrecked insects.
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Kwyndig posted:Hey, Degloving isn't necessarily deadly. Horrifying yes, deadly not with medical treatment. Depends on the part that has been degloved Degloved penis. 
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Tochiazuma posted:'nuclear exchange' is my... favourite? countervalue exchange
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Phy posted:What's the most gallingly disparate terminology you can think of, in terms of the innocence of the description to the deadliness of the thing or phenomenon it describes? I like 'almond scented' treasured8elief has a new favorite as of 16:35 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Not quite chemistry but I am fond of " injuries incompatible with life" IE: Decapitation, such torso trauma that literal poo poo is coming out of their mouth and other fun things
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"Extremely characteristic scent" is always a favourite.
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"Evulsion" is one of my favorites. General definition: the action of plucking something out by force; violent or forcible extraction. Different than avulsion, which is a general tear of a muscle or tendon (but not the removal) Can happen to the tendons attaching your fingers to your forearm muscles if, say, a horse were to bite your fingers off because you didn't keep your palm flat when feeding it.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Gonna go start a chemistry themed death metal band That reminds me of The County Medical Examiners. They're a trio of, well, actual county medical examiners who perform songs in the style of early Carcass albums except with medically correct lyrics. They're too busy with their jobs & live too far away from each other to play live shows but they've made a few good albums. If you like early Carcass you will love them. Otherwise, probably not.  this one goes out to the nasty chemicals thread: NH2(CH2)4NH2 & C5H14N2 (Putrescine & Cadaverine) Putrescine and cadaverine, the pungent twins of putridity Colorless and syrupy biogenic amines Putrescine and cadaverine, vapor of ornithine The stench of death visits me in the morgue laboratory Perfume of rot, heady, thick and hot Putrescine and cadaverine, Brothers in liquidity Fuming stench of carcass stink, noisome gas, fetid glee Putrescine and cadaverine, ambassadors of ripened reek Breaking down dead protein, egressing odors miasmically Sickening stink makes watering eyes blink These dual chemical compounds, released shortly after death Cloud the pleasant morgue ambiance with their foul, rotten breath Fraternally bound to haunt swollen distended bodies Their chemical reactions clash amidst rank autopsies NH2(CH2)4NH2... Putrescine! C5H14N2... Cadaverine! NH2(CH2)4NH2... Putrescine! C5H14N2... Cadaverine! Gorges rise and heave with the stench A symphony of sickness perfumed with putrescence While affronted senses nauseously totter and lurch The carcass breeds odor and chemically gives birth NH2(CH2)4NH2... Putrescine! C5H14N2... Cadaverine! NH2(CH2)4NH2... Putrescine! C5H14N2... Cadaverine! The ripened tang of gaseous decomposition let loose in the morgue Overtaxed fans strain to aerate the grave-ly polluted ward Tumefied decedents belch their chemical cohorts into the air The airborne corpse-whiff adheres to fabrics, skin, and hair Acrid reek, odiferous cadaver leak
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Johnny Aztec posted:Not quite chemistry but I am fond of " injuries incompatible with life"
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Grundulum posted:I would argue that the Great Oxygenation Event belongs in the bottom right corner, not the top left. It was a permanent change in the Earth’s atmosphere, rendering the planet toxic to the vast majority of life and setting off a global ice age lasting three hundred million years. The first time, and hopefully the last, that life on Earth faced mass extinction due to chronic uncontrolled farting. Anaerobic bacteria are still angry about it so be careful around them.
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Syd Midnight posted:That reminds me of The County Medical Examiners. They're a trio of, well, actual county medical examiners who perform songs in the style of early Carcass albums except with medically correct lyrics. They're too busy with their jobs & live too far away from each other to play live shows but they've made a few good albums. If you like early Carcass you will love them. Otherwise, probably not. These guys are 2x scarier looking than your average murder-core metal band, there's a nonzero chance they've actually killed people before.
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"Particulation" sounds innocent enough, until you find it's about victims from air crashes.
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Platystemon posted:K–T gets all the press because people love dinosaurs, but it only killed 75% of species. Yeah but the Permian-Triassic extinction event is called "The Great Dying", not really relevant to the discussion at hand.
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My personal favorite is 'spagettification'. Like being pressed through an extruder, only there's no extruder! Edit: Scrag. Scrag is a good word. And 'safe' as a verb for 'to blow something up.' Cichlidae has a new favorite as of 05:10 on Jan 4, 2018 |
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pressure differential
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Syd Midnight posted:The first time, and hopefully the last, that life on Earth faced mass extinction due to chronic uncontrolled farting. Anaerobic bacteria are still angry about it so be careful around them. No, not the last.
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Syd Midnight posted:The first time, and hopefully the last, that life on Earth faced mass extinction due to chronic uncontrolled farting. Anaerobic bacteria are still angry about it so be careful around them. Moo.
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Captain Foo posted:pressure differential I'm a fan of "pressure gradient". Especially when preceded by the word "steep"
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The background for the chart should be an AutoCAD cloud labeled "event"
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Hands down the most innocent sounding terrible thing is "excursion"
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I've always liked "controlled flight into terrain." Controlled is good! Edit: The Jewel Voice Broadcast might contain one of the greatest understatements in history: "... the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." - Emperor Hirohito, Aug 15, 1945. Rent-A-Cop has a new favorite as of 15:21 on Jan 4, 2018 |
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“lithobraking”
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Vando posted:Hands down the most innocent sounding terrible thing is "excursion" What's the horror here?
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Nth Doctor posted:What's the horror here? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident
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Captain Foo posted:pressure differential ΔP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEtbFm_CjE0
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Holy crap - that Mayak incident was a symphony of fuckups!
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MrUnderbridge posted:Holy crap - that Mayak incident was a symphony of fuckups! I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to be more specific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak#List_of_accidents
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Zernach posted:Unfavorable vessel geometry Platystemon posted:Favorable Geometry Remind me, which one of these causes criticalities?
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The Claptain posted:Remind me, which one of these causes criticalities? Unfavorable.
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 Maybe call this "less than ideal"?
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Considering what those are supposed to be, less than ideal is the understatement of the year.
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I'm guessing they're not fancy cigar cases like Will Smith had in Independence Day
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Phy posted:I'm guessing they're not fancy cigar cases like Will Smith had in Independence Day
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GWBBQ posted:Rods of plutonium arranged for a photo op. They were close enough together that bumping the table too hard or having too many people gathered around them could have induced criticality. One person was assigned to walk up and carefully move them away from each other, but other people weren't cleared out because gently caress nuclear safety procedures, work has to continue. aaaaAAAAAAAHHHHHHH 
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Farmdizzle posted:
Significantly less than ideal. Every time I see that photo, I clench.
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