CSI Effect- The impossibly high expectations jurors have for DNA and other crime scene evidence after watching a few episodes of CSI.
Generation O- Slang term for today's swelling population of dangerously obese children
Chimping- Pro sports photographerss habit of flipping over their digicams to preview shots and to periodically ooh-ooh-ooh over the good ones.
Hide and Sleep Weapons- "Weapoons that can loiter over a battlefield or sneak into enemy territory and 'sleep' until an appropriate military target blunders into their sights." according to the The Straits Times of Singapore. Example: Lockheed Martin's Loitering Attack Missile which seeks out mobile artillery.
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Missing Mars- Screwing up an engineering project by failing to specify whether the metric or English measurement system is being used. Refers to the Mars Climate Orbiter, which was lost when two teams used different systems to build key components.
Generation O- Slang term for today's swelling population of dangerously obese children
Chimping- Pro sports photographerss habit of flipping over their digicams to preview shots and to periodically ooh-ooh-ooh over the good ones.
Hide and Sleep Weapons- "Weapoons that can loiter over a battlefield or sneak into enemy territory and 'sleep' until an appropriate military target blunders into their sights." according to the The Straits Times of Singapore. Example: Lockheed Martin's Loitering Attack Missile which seeks out mobile artillery.
My fav
Missing Mars- Screwing up an engineering project by failing to specify whether the metric or English measurement system is being used. Refers to the Mars Climate Orbiter, which was lost when two teams used different systems to build key components.
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