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Get the Swanking mug.When someone chronically misses obvious details and words after reading or looking at written material. A sister of Tunnel Vision.
His sister sent him his OWN number and he proceeded to ask her who’s number that was….clear case of scanning syndrome
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So I popped into Pizza Express for a quick bite, and the waitress was like ‘you’ve got to scan the NHS app before sitting down’. So I take out my phone and appear to scan it, but in fact I’m phantom scanning it. No lock down for me, ha ha ha ha
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Get the Jank-swanking mug.When you BEGIN stan someone, mainly a musical group that has already split or disbanded.
The term is inspired by the word "retroactive," which means "taking effect from a date in the past."
It's not really nostalgia, because you were never really there.
So it feels like you are stanning a period in the past, and you are mentally there.
The term is inspired by the word "retroactive," which means "taking effect from a date in the past."
It's not really nostalgia, because you were never really there.
So it feels like you are stanning a period in the past, and you are mentally there.
1. Since JPop was gatekept for a million years, now I'm retro-stanning King & Prince as 5/6 members in 2025.
2. Retro-stanning *insert former famous girl group or boy band* because the hype is gone now.
2. Retro-stanning *insert former famous girl group or boy band* because the hype is gone now.
by boygroupism April 19, 2025
Get the retro-stanning mug.The use of advanced remote sensing technologies—like muon tomography, quantum gravimetry, or deep-penetrating radar—to map and identify valuable mineral, aqueous, or energy resources buried kilometers beneath a planet's or moon's surface. It's the high-tech equivalent of X-ray vision for entire landscapes, allowing prospectors to "see" ore deposits, groundwater aquifers, or geothermal pockets without digging a single hole. This is the critical first step for any large-scale off-world mining or colony site selection.
Example: Before establishing a Mars base, a fleet of orbiters and rovers would perform Deep Resource Scanning to pinpoint the exact location of subsurface water-ice deposits, saving a colony from drilling a dozen dry holes. On an asteroid, such scanning could map the internal veins of platinum-group metals before sending in mining drones.
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