Apparently Lady Godiva suffered "accidental excursions." As did Godiva II. ("middle melted, disks warped, and bolts stretched") Does it inspire you with confidence to read that "due to a miscalculation, Jemima was assembled with too many disks (of U235); this caused an excursion of 1.5 x 10^16 fissions"?
Saturday, September 01, 2018
Turns of phrase
People sometimes do amazing things with the language. You have heard of "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly." You can read about that here, together with such other marvels as "lithobraking maneuver" and "deconstructive deceleration" and "kaputnik."
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My favorite is 'percussive maintenance'.
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