nick weiner's definitions

Interstellar Travel

Travel between star systems - which may someday be do-able but given that even our closest star is 4.6 light years away it is something that will require technology and resources that we can only dream of by today's standards.

It is also a very big subject in science fiction; the rapid transit between star systems by faster-than-light travel; Star Trek, Star Wars, and Mass Effect are examples.

While Voyager 1 is technically making interstellar travel, at the rate it is going, it will take more than 72,000 years from now to do so.

by Nick Weiner January 31, 2009

upset

A one-word summary of Super Bowl XLII.

After winning every single game and not losing one, it was a spectacular upset to finally lose in the championship game (especially against a team they beat in a spectacular regular-season encore).

by nick weiner October 24, 2008

Crimson Omen

The name of the logo in the Xbox 360 hit Gears of War. It consists of a blood-covered skull incased within a blood-covered COG (Coalition of Ordered Governments) logo. These appear in the single player mode wherever a COG tag is to be found, as well as in multiplayer as a health meter (the more apparent the symbol appears on the screen, the closer you are to being downed).

The Gears of War icon that appears on your Gamercard showing you played the game is the Crimson Omen.

by Nick Weiner May 11, 2008

Plattsburgh

A town in extreme upstate New York that is pretty much the only place for activity in that whole area. Very cold in the winter.

I went up north towards Quebec; all of interest along the way was in the city of Plattsburgh.

by Nick Weiner February 3, 2009

Interplanetary Travel

Travelling between the eight planets in our solar system. We've reached every one by unmanned probes but all we've been able to take a human to is our moon.

NASA is planning to send humans on an Interplanetary Travel mission to Mars by 2020, but it looks like we have too many problems on Earth to deal with first.

by Nick Weiner January 31, 2009

collapse

A one-word description of the Yankees during the 2004 American League Championship Series.

Having been just three outs away from sweeping the Red Sox out of the ALCS and going on to lose the series four games later was the biggest collapse in Major League Baseball post-season history.

by Nick Weiner May 11, 2008

Digital feces

Slang term for when a video game has such poor graphics or collision detection it is as pleasant for the eye as looking at actual human feces.

Games like Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Hour of Victory are such a disgrace to look at and involve so much going through walls and obstructions that it is pretty much digital feces.

by Nick Weiner March 1, 2009