The entire economic ecosystem of mining, manufacturing, construction, and energy production built to operate in space or on other celestial bodies, using primarily in-situ resources. The goal is to break the "tyranny of the rocket equation" by not hauling everything from Earth. This includes asteroid mining for metals and water, lunar solar foundries, Martian cement production using local regolith, and orbital shipyards. It's the industrial revolution, re-enacted in a vacuum.

Offworld Industries Example: A fully realized Offworld Industry chain might look like: Robots on Ceres mine water ice and metals -> This is processed at a Lagrange point factory into fuel and structural components -> These components are used to build massive solar power satellites in orbit -> The energy is beamed to a growing Mars colony, which uses it to power its own local industries. It's a self-fueling economic engine beyond Earth.

Offworld Industries by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026

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Nutshot

It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.

Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.

Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009

Word of the Day on June 26, 2026

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