On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 12:48, Martin Stone Davis wrote: Ian Clarke wrote: > > > > What exactly is "unobtanium routing"? > > Ubobtanium routing was first proposed by me as "Improving NGR" in: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.devel/7791
That's the article about whether you should have your chef cook up a will. So far as a chef is concerned, a will is made of unobtanium, so he gives it a very low priority, or even rejects the request. > > Toad coined the term "Unobtanium" in IRC. (That's the way to spell it, > right Toad? It's the only one that googles.) > * toad_ might call it Unobtanium Load Handling, in honour of an obvious (but obscure) cinematic metaphor :) ... but it's largely m0davis's idea. Regarding the spelling, I guess the word derives from a combination of "obtain" and "titanium," so unobtanium may be correct. However, today I saw the alternative spelling in the newspaper: "They are going to be a stretch from a technology standpoint, but there is no reason why they can't develop and deploy them. There is no `unobtainium' in them," said Dennis Poulos, Northrop's Falcon program manager in El Segundo, Calif. "Unobtainium" is an imaginary material engineers jokingly invoke in presenting otherwise unobtainable solutions to problems. Another citation from Google News: The 'unobtainium' factor For Roger Launius, Chair of the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., OSP is like a dream machine from visions past. "We have been down this road several times before with such programs as the National Aerospace Plane and X-33 offering a promise for the future of space access. Unfortunately, we tried to build those vehicles from 'unobtainium.' I certainly hope OSP proves to be a successful program and leads to a replacement for the space shuttle," Launius said. -- Ed Huff
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