Definitions by hammer---;, hytham
Ostrich Years
Major world insatbility and poverty that will lead to the 'trivializing' of TV news' coverage as 'water wars', 'climate wars' would lead all humanity into riots and all-encompassing chaos!
Apocophilia is a name befitting journalists who keep talking about the upcoming 'Ostrich Years' (2008-2012), that would usher the End.
Ostrich Years by hammer---;, hytham April 25, 2007
Big Splat
The reverse of the Big Bang! This is what has been called the 'Cosmic Katrina', by worried astrophysicists who predict that a large, earth-crossing 'doomsday rock' will hit the Earth and cause a large-scale extinction of living organisms!
This recent 'asteroid anxiety' has prompted the UN to start what it called an 'asteroid defense' program that plans to put into the 'killer' asteroid's rock structure a space 'bullet': a fly-by-satellite mini-nuke weapon that rides on the asteroid using its own 'microgravity' and then plant the bomb inside its hollow to blow it.
This recent 'asteroid anxiety' has prompted the UN to start what it called an 'asteroid defense' program that plans to put into the 'killer' asteroid's rock structure a space 'bullet': a fly-by-satellite mini-nuke weapon that rides on the asteroid using its own 'microgravity' and then plant the bomb inside its hollow to blow it.
PHAs (potentially-hazardous asteroids) are various in size and impactability-risk and two scales have been put to calculate the risk against the Big Splat:
-The Torino Scale (uses a scale from 0 - 10 for regular impactability).
-The Palermo Scale (uses stats from average-sized NEOs 'near-earth objects' over a long period of time, on a scale from -2 - 0).
-The Torino Scale (uses a scale from 0 - 10 for regular impactability).
-The Palermo Scale (uses stats from average-sized NEOs 'near-earth objects' over a long period of time, on a scale from -2 - 0).
Big Splat by hammer---;, hytham April 25, 2007
smart dust
Cheap, self-replicating, wireless nanobots (nanoscale-robots), or 'motes' (short for remote robots), used as sensors by the nanorati ('nanotechnology lierati', or elite scientists)... that can communicate, moniter and send data or accomplish nano-scale tasks.
Also called:
-smart matter.
-digital dust.
-micro machines/ microbots.
-nanomachines.
-nanoassemblers (or 'assmeblers' for short).
-nanites.
-Nanos.
-clonebots.
-insect robots.
-MEMS: microelectronic mechanical systems.
-software TinyOS: Weenix (LinuxOS-using nanobots)/ Weendows (Windows).
-photovores (nanobots that feed on sun-light, also known as 'heliovores'.
-gastrobots: feed on organic sugar.
Also called:
-smart matter.
-digital dust.
-micro machines/ microbots.
-nanomachines.
-nanoassemblers (or 'assmeblers' for short).
-nanites.
-Nanos.
-clonebots.
-insect robots.
-MEMS: microelectronic mechanical systems.
-software TinyOS: Weenix (LinuxOS-using nanobots)/ Weendows (Windows).
-photovores (nanobots that feed on sun-light, also known as 'heliovores'.
-gastrobots: feed on organic sugar.
A wild and really off-the-wall theory had recently emerged when one scientist predicted that 'smart dust' (these tiny, little nanostructured machines that can collect 'atoms' from the air!) will in a couple of decades lead to what he called the 'global ecophagy' theory : these nanobots come eqiupped with small nanoscal-blades and thus capable of eating away at the whole Earth, leaving in their trail what became known as 'grey goo'! Some other, even madder scientists have also predicted that there would be other 'police' nanobots that will control the others' action and named these 'blue goo'!
Any way, seriously there is today quiet a concern for what is called 'nanotoxicolgy', or nanopollution: the prediction of the harmful effects nanos can make on the 'nanosphere' and the impact of using AMOs (atomically-modified organisms), that are basically GMOs on atom-scale manipulation.
Finally, there's a new role that nanotechnology is playing right now in bringing together different sciences and pitting them together to create a stranger-than-fiction new one: NBIC (nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and cognitive science) that long-awaited science that can make the TransHuman dream a reality!
Any way, seriously there is today quiet a concern for what is called 'nanotoxicolgy', or nanopollution: the prediction of the harmful effects nanos can make on the 'nanosphere' and the impact of using AMOs (atomically-modified organisms), that are basically GMOs on atom-scale manipulation.
Finally, there's a new role that nanotechnology is playing right now in bringing together different sciences and pitting them together to create a stranger-than-fiction new one: NBIC (nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and cognitive science) that long-awaited science that can make the TransHuman dream a reality!
smart dust by hammer---;, hytham April 25, 2007
Notwork
The network that I normally use to 'lug' along the disinformation super-hypeway!
A.k.a. WWW (World Wide Wait!)/ (Wait Wait Wait!).
A.k.a. WWW (World Wide Wait!)/ (Wait Wait Wait!).
Notwork by hammer---;, hytham April 25, 2007
World War Zero
World War Zero is called so because it spread to vast parts outside the original war zone, namely China and the North Pacific regions.
World War Zero by hammer---;, hytham April 25, 2007
zips
A lot of neo-words were suggested to describe the decade we live in right now, but many of these weren't as good as the zips.
Here's a list:
-the earlies.
-the beginnings.
-the peacefuls.
-the tookies (from 2Ks: Years 2000).
-the ohs/ oh-ohs.
-the zeros.
-the aughts/ aughties.
-the naughts/ the naughties.
-the the 00psies/ 2000-psies (resounding the dot-bomb effect!). Also: the dooming 2000s.
-the oozies.
Here's a list:
-the earlies.
-the beginnings.
-the peacefuls.
-the tookies (from 2Ks: Years 2000).
-the ohs/ oh-ohs.
-the zeros.
-the aughts/ aughties.
-the naughts/ the naughties.
-the the 00psies/ 2000-psies (resounding the dot-bomb effect!). Also: the dooming 2000s.
-the oozies.
zips by hammer---;, hytham April 25, 2007