Part Time Relatives

The type of relatives that only show up for Christmas and birthdays

Was my birthday yesterday and had my Aunt and Uncle over to celebrate and now I won't see them for another year. Stupid Part Time Relatives

by Upstairsdragon July 11, 2016

Mihai Doncu's relatives

Mihai Doncu's relatives are a powerful romanian gang that can fuck you up immediately.

When you work on your badly engineered car and you get angry you can say: "Mihai Doncu's relatives fuck that."

by Gobi1 December 20, 2023

relatie

A relatie is a dutch word for Relationship, its when two people are stuck to each other with love.

Sometimes a girl wants to do everything with you but not a relatie.

Alert!

That is the biggest lie there is because she is to pussy and she goes to Basic Fit. So if a girl does this to you, you are not the one who is wrong!

Hey do you want a relatie?
No i dont want a relatie!
Oh okay then... you are wrong!
I cant hecht me... but i still love you -_-

by Blondefrominside February 27, 2017

relaxive

when something is relaxing it is also relaxive.

It is relaxive to talk with you.

by umitism May 2, 2020

Relativistic Computing

The art of exploiting the freaky time and space distortions predicted by Einstein's Special Relativity to make computers do wild shit. The core idea: if you move a processor or memory at a significant fraction of light speed relative to another part of the system, time literally slows down for the fast-moving part (time dilation). This could let you perform ultra-fast calculations from a slower-moving observer's perspective or solve problems where synchronization is fucked by relativity.

Example: Imagine a financial trading AI hosted on a satellite in a super-fast orbit. From Earth's perspective, its clock ticks slower. It could run millions more simulated market scenarios in what feels like a blink of an eye down here, executing trades before its earthbound competitors even finish booting up. Alternatively, a "relativistic blockchain" where consensus is achieved by comparing timestamps from nodes moving at different velocities, making it unhackable unless you can mess with the fabric of spacetime itself. It's Relativistic Computing.

by Abzugal January 24, 2026

Relativistic Communication

Any method of sending information that has to account for the freaky rules of Einstein's relativity, where the order of events can be subjective and nothing can outrace light. It's not about FTL; it's about dealing with the mind-bending fact that due to time dilation and the relativity of simultaneity, "now" for you isn't "now" for someone moving at a different speed. This makes syncing up conversations across interstellar distances or near light-speed ships a total headache.

*Example: You're on a generation ship cruising at 90% light speed to Alpha Centauri. You send a video message back to Earth. For you, the trip takes a few years. But due to time dilation, decades pass on Earth before they receive it. Their reply takes decades to catch up to your moving ship. You might be dead by the time you get a response. The entire conversation is less a chat and more like sending cosmic voicemails into a time-warped void. GPS satellites already do baby versions of this, correcting their clocks for relativistic effects so your "Turn left" command isn't based on a skewed time signal.* It's relativistic communication.

by Abzugal January 24, 2026

Relativistic Travel

Getting from A to B at a high enough velocity that Einstein's Special Relativity stops being a math problem and becomes your travel agent. The key feature is time dilation: for the travelers moving at a substantial fraction of light speed, time passes slower than for the people they left behind. You can cross the galaxy within a human lifetime... but you'll return to a future where everyone you know is dust.

*Example: The classic Twin Paradox. One twin blasts off on a round-trip to a star 10 light-years away at 99% light speed. For her, the journey might take 15 years. She comes home only 15 years older. But on Earth, over 20 years have passed. Her stay-at-home brother is now older than her. This isn't sci-fi magic; it's a direct prediction of tested physics. Relativistic travel is the ultimate "you can't go home again" scenario, because home exists thousands of years in your future.*

by Abzugal January 24, 2026