1. The theoretical flattening of a person (or object) when they slam into the ultra-dense surface of a gravastar at near-light speed.
2. The opposite of spaghettification — instead of being stretched into cosmic noodles by a black hole, you're squished like a celestial pancake.
Dude didn’t even make it past the gravastar’s shell. Total pancakification. Flat as a neutron-flapjack.”
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.