No Waldoes?

Uncle Wiggly: ..starfury..



/hot, of course

So we get nine items for the Daily 10? Sure, that makes sense.

Dead for Tax Reasons: The quark is named after the robotic characters which first appeared in the 1968 doctor who serial 'the dominators'

Dates from 1963 when Gell-Man took a word from a James Joyce novel.

Quark (new window)

My favorite was the addition of "Thagomizer" for the previously unnamed tail of the Stegosaurus. Thanks, Gary Larson.

Dead for Tax Reasons: MasterSFV: Dead for Tax Reasons: The quark is named after the robotic characters which first appeared in the 1968 doctor who serial 'the dominators'

Dates from 1963 when Gell-Man took a word from a James Joyce novel.

Quark (new window)

The 'top' quark is named after the dog in jules verne's 1874 novel 'the mysterious island'

You don't drink the bong water dude......

Came for ancible, leaving satisfied but only after mentioning "grok."

Was going to complain about the lack of "android", before I realised it wasn't coined by a science fiction writer.. but *was* popularised by one in 1886. So there's that.

FatMason: So we get nine items for the Daily 10? Sure, that makes sense.

I was just about to type an Outraged of Tunbridge Wells post to that effect when I noticed that the introduction says "blast off" was coined by E. E. Smith,

OneNightStand: My favorite was the addition of "Thagomizer" for the previously unnamed tail of the Stegosaurus. Thanks, Gary Larson.

Indeed, and we actually do use the term in scientific papers.

/once hid a haiku about Brachiosaurus in one of my manuscripts.

FatMason: So we get nine items for the Daily 10? Sure, that makes sense.

Clearly, the article was written by someone who lost a finger.

Dinodork: OneNightStand: My favorite was the addition of "Thagomizer" for the previously unnamed tail of the Stegosaurus. Thanks, Gary Larson.

Indeed, and we actually do use the term in scientific papers.

/once hid a haiku about Brachiosaurus in one of my manuscripts.

I had no idea that had been officially adopted. That's awesome

H.G. Wells coined the term atomic bomb.

dc0012c: They mentioned Asimov coining "robotics", but they should have at least mentioned the origin of the term "robot" which also comes from science fiction. The term was first introduced by Carel Capek in his 1920 play "RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots)".

Robot it a derivative term from the Russian/slavic "robota". http://masterrussian.com/vocabulary/rabota_work_job.htm

Since Asimov was Russian, it seems he just took the term and anglicized it.

More technology related than science, but the term "avatar" to represent your visual online persona was derived from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. That's the only one I can think of.

Pls post list, blocked at work. So I can claim list sucks, as everyone else does.

Robot was the FIRST that occurred to me, Waldo was second, cyberspace third. Are they really not on the list?

Yeah, "ansible" was always DOA IMHO.
Robotics doesn't count, the origin of "robot" predates by decades, as described above by other Farkers who seem to know more about this than the list writer.

/RUR is an awful, awful play to read, clunky translation available on gutenberg.org
//not sure if a better translation would help

1. Gas Giant
2. Worm (computer)
3. Virus (computer)
4. Pressure suit
5. Ion drive
6. Deep space
7. Zero-gravity
8. Genetic engineering
9. Robotics
10. Blast off

Dead for Tax Reasons: MasterSFV: Dead for Tax Reasons: The quark is named after the robotic characters which first appeared in the 1968 doctor who serial 'the dominators'

Dates from 1963 when Gell-Man took a word from a James Joyce novel.

Quark (new window)

The 'top' quark is named after the dog in jules verne's 1874 novel 'the mysterious island'

Always thought it was a dumb name for a dog.

Hey man, Lost stole from that book.

dc0012c: They mentioned Asimov coining "robotics", but they should have at least mentioned the origin of the term "robot" which also comes from science fiction. The term was first introduced by Carel Capek in his 1920 play "RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots)".

Where IO9 disappoints, Fark delivers - I'm glad somebody mentioned Capek and RUR.

Heinlein invented the waterbed. Does that count?

simplicimus: Ursula K Leguin used it in some forgettable novel.

Are you talking about the Left Hand of Darkness? That was a pretty good book.

the_innkeeper: dc0012c: They mentioned Asimov coining "robotics", but they should have at least mentioned the origin of the term "robot" which also comes from science fiction. The term was first introduced by Carel Capek in his 1920 play "RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots)".

Robot it a derivative term from the Russian/slavic "robota". http://masterrussian.com/vocabulary/rabota_work_job.htm

Since Asimov was Russian, it seems he just took the term and anglicized it.

I had not thought it through that Asimov was Russian. Explains his love of limmericks though. At least four published books of limmericks.

Bet he was more fun than a lot of people thought.

theorellior: rockymountainrider: Bet he was more fun than a lot of people thought.

I remember reading at least ^fourforty short stories of his that were basically shaggy-dog setups for awful, awful puns.


FTFY. I thought his limericks were awful, but you can check out "Too Gross" and decide for yourself.

rockymountainrider: I had not thought it through that Asimov was Russian. Explains his love of limmericks though. At least four published books of limmericks.

Bet he was more fun than a lot of people thought.

One of his books is called "The Sensuous Dirty Old Man", by "Dr. A". Haven't read it though.

theorellior: getting his daughter a publishing contract. Have you ever read anything by Janet Asimov? Oh, Lordy.

Um, that's his second wife.

He was fun by all reports, if arrongant and somewhat misogynistic. His autoibiography "I. Asimov" is pretty candid about a lot of things, and he doesn't hide his sense of superiority.

BTW, Asimov came to the states when he was something like three years old, so he's not Russian so much as a first-gen Brooklyn Jew.

Toquinha: More technology related than science, but the term "avatar" to represent your visual online persona was derived from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. That's the only one I can think of.


This comes to mind-1979-

the_innkeeper: dc0012c: They mentioned Asimov coining "robotics", but they should have at least mentioned the origin of the term "robot" which also comes from science fiction. The term was first introduced by Carel Capek in his 1920 play "RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots)".

Robot it a derivative term from the Russian/slavic "robota". http://masterrussian.com/vocabulary/rabota_work_job.htm

Since Asimov was Russian, it seems he just took the term and anglicized it.

Nope, Asimov himself said that he got the word from R.U.R. and Capek. However, he did say (proudly) that he was the first to ever use the word robotics.

navyjeff: 1. Gas Giant
2. Worm (computer)
3. Virus (computer)
4. Pressure suit
5. Ion drive
6. Deep space
7. Zero-gravity
8. Genetic engineering
9. Robotics
10. Blast off

Thanks, pal ... I absolutely refuse to click on i09 links, no matter how interesting they appear to be. I appreciate it when someone takes one for the team.

simplicimus: No, I find her style dull and slow shallow and pedantic.

FTFY
/I actually agree that it's slow.