Comment by squigz
1 day ago
I thought you had to be joking, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremendously_high_frequency
And here I was thinking that GregTech's "Ludicrous Voltage" sounded out of place...
1 day ago
I thought you had to be joking, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremendously_high_frequency
And here I was thinking that GregTech's "Ludicrous Voltage" sounded out of place...
Scientists and engineers have fantastic senses of humor when naming things.
> The time derivative of acceleration is called jerk, and the time derivative of jerk is called jounce. One published paper whimsically named the fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of "snap", "crackle", and "pop" after the cartoon characters on boxes of Rice Krispies breakfast cereal.