A nonsense word used in an attempt to describe the indescribable feeling of fear felt by AP students. It is generally used when the student feels that they have too much work (117% of the time), when they fear they have not been taught enough to complete their work (132% of the time), and in some cases may even be used to describe the lethargy and despair felt by AP student that are otherwise involved in their communities, schools, extracurricular activities, or social lives, and thus experience monumental amounts of stress usually resulting in serious medical complications (~163% of the time).

The safeguarding of Earth and other worlds from biological cross-contamination (i.e. billionaires with too much time on their hands).

Also known as “planetary protection.” Planetary protection / quarantine “reflects both the unknown nature of the space environment and the desire of the scientific community to preserve the pristine nature of celestial bodies until they can be studied in detail.”

There are two types of interplanetary contamination. Forward contamination is the transfer of viable organisms from Earth to another celestial body. Back contamination is the transfer of extraterrestrial organisms, if such exist, back to the Earth's biosphere.