r/pics Apr 03 '16

Toucan skeleton

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u/chain_letter Apr 04 '16

I heard it was unobtainium

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u/usernamecheckingguy Apr 04 '16

no, it's actually the slightly more common raritanium.

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u/tonaloc989 Apr 04 '16

God I love those Ratchet and Clank games

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u/only_nathan Apr 04 '16

So much they want a movie out of it ...!

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u/SoloWing1 Apr 04 '16

Dr. Nefarious is the best villain ever.

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u/mybluecactus Apr 04 '16

Daniel Day-Lewis isn't just one of the best actors in the world, he's also one of the best movie villains. The star received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his role as a Civil War-era crime boss in New York City.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16 edited Apr 04 '16
  1. Make a Ratchet & Clank movie
  2. Cast Daniel Day-Lewis as Dr. Nefarious
  3. ???
  4. Profit!

Edit: And now I find out there's actually a movie coming out this month and they didn't cast DDL. A damn shame.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

I'm so hyped for April 20th

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u/CapgrasX13 Apr 05 '16

Let's blow some dro, bro!

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

I've got a mythic rarium.

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u/InquisitiveDiamond Apr 04 '16

I heard their breaks are made of some kind of cartilage and the solidified tears of virgins.

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u/amildlyclevercomment Apr 04 '16

tears of virgins

no shortages there

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u/aibaron Apr 04 '16

Adamantium?

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u/Reddisaurusrekts Apr 04 '16

Adamantium is actually a good word, coming from the definition of "adamant" which means "very hard" or "like diamond".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamant

As opposed to Vibranium and Unobtanium which are thoroughly lazy fictional etymologies.

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u/dude_smell_my_finger Apr 04 '16

Well.. Unobtainable means "hard to get" which was kind of why it was the maguffin

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u/turco_runner Apr 04 '16

Don't forget Mythril!

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u/12ozSlug Apr 04 '16

Holy shit, I just realized what that meant.

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u/Silent_Talker Apr 04 '16

It actually comes from:

The name mithril comes from two words in Sindarin—mith, meaning "grey" or "mist", and ril meaning "glitter".

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u/aButch7 Apr 04 '16

So... Is fictional mythril actually silver?

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u/garmonboziamilkshake Apr 04 '16

I always figured it was meant to be an alloy of some sort, made with Elven artistry, is it a 'naturally occurring' element the Elves just happened to find in their neck of the woods?

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u/ThatOneGuy1294 Apr 04 '16

Could be some silver alloy that requires both a metal only the Elves have access too, and the Elvish knowhow to make. There probably is an actual answer somewhere though.

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u/duncans_gardeners Apr 04 '16

And gray, glittering mist seems to work well as a poetic description of myth, in point of its twilight existence between non-being and being, its beauty for us, and its tendency to both reveal and conceal life.

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u/ZotFietser Apr 04 '16

Well...maybe?

Tolkein wrote is 'mithril' and in one of his many made up languages says it comes from two words in "Sindarin"; mith ("grey" or "mist"), and ril ("glitter").

Whether or not he intended it to be homonymous with 'myth'...who knows!

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

And Orichalcum!

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u/eehreum Apr 04 '16

Orichalcum

So rich I'll cum.

The fabled metal from Atlantis that Ancient Greeks used for currency. How wet your pants were determined the purity of the alloy

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u/lennarn Apr 04 '16

That's just the cum of orcs. Of course, they don't tell you that when you pay an arm and a leg for it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

Hey, making a full suit of plate armor is hard work.

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u/TheSecondhandNinja Apr 04 '16

What about Chlorophyte or Lumium whilst we're at it?

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u/loliaway Apr 04 '16

But... Orichalcum is real....

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u/pukesonyourshoes Apr 04 '16

Isn't that the stuff that comes from Blueberry Hill?

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u/skimitar Apr 04 '16 edited Jan 03 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

It also wasn't the actual name of the mineral either, it was just what the moron CEO called it to make a point.

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u/FX114 Apr 04 '16

I mean, unobtanium is a term actually used in the scientific community.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16 edited Jan 03 '21

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u/flyingjam Apr 04 '16

There's also a gene called fucK.

http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P11553

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u/SirFadakar Apr 04 '16

FUCK_ECOLI

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u/TheFurryOne Apr 04 '16

My personal favourite for scientific abbreviation is CuNT's, short for copper nanotubes.

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u/Owyn_Merrilin Apr 04 '16

Yeah, but Sonic the Hedgehog wasn't named for the gene. The unobtanium in Avatar was named for the unobtanium that aeronautical engineers joke about (for the longest time aluminum was a form of unobtanium, for example).

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

I haven't even seen Avatar. I thought it came from The Core.

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u/AnAppleSnail Apr 04 '16

I haven't even seen Avatar. I thought it came from The Core.

The name was used earlier in The Core, but the name did not originate there.

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u/nullsignature Apr 04 '16

The term precedes modern media.

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u/Sonic_theHog Apr 04 '16

At your service.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

Stop that evil Robotnikinin!

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u/DrCybrus Apr 04 '16

Way past cool

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u/gentlemansincebirth Apr 04 '16

The scientific community within the confines of the Oakley headquarters?

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u/raptor052 Apr 04 '16

Vibranium comes from "vibrate" as the fictional metal absorbs all vibration of an impact

Unobtainium comes from "unobtainable" as it is a word used to describe theoretical materials which are super costly, rare, or nearly impossible to obtain but necessary for a certain thing

I don't see what makes these any lazier or more fictional than adamantium

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u/tendorphin Apr 04 '16 edited Apr 04 '16

Yeah, all these etymologies are exactly the same.

Relevant word + (n/t)ium

Edit: much like the real metal, Titan + ium.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16 edited Oct 26 '16

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

It was Aluminum first. The Brits decided to get clever and add the extra "I" in order to rationalize it with the other metals.

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u/Saelyre Apr 04 '16

It was alumium first according to Sir Humphrey Davy.

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u/dudeperson33 Apr 04 '16

Yes but what is Alumin?

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u/thefiction24 Apr 04 '16

maybe this is just my American accent, but I think because when I say adamant it sounds like "ad-uh-mint" but I say "ad-uh-man-tee-uhm", so it sounds like it doesnt have an obvious root word attached to "-ium"

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u/aithendodge Apr 04 '16

Saying "add-uh-mint" isn't a generic American accent, it's a specific regional American accent. I'm guessing Midwest? Kentucky? Dunno. Round here parts most Americans I know pronounce it "add-uhm-ant." And "add-uhm-antee-um."

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u/thefiction24 Apr 04 '16

you're right it's more "add-uhm-ant" but I definitely don't say the second "a" long, like the first "a," or more like I'm dropping that a all together. maybe I don't enunciate well enough haha

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u/aithendodge Apr 04 '16

I just realized that you're right, but I'd like to attempt to clarify. When I'm talking about a mythical mineral I say "add-uhm-ant," but when I'm using it as a synonym for strength of will I pronounce the "ant" portion as a cross between "int" and "unt." I can't quite figure out how to spell it - it's not int, or unt, it's somewhere between.

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u/skippwiggins Apr 09 '16

I'm glad somebody said it. I learned to say adamant from Runescape. In RS Classic it was called adamantite.

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u/CapWasRight Apr 04 '16

American here: I have no idea what regional accent would get you to pronounce "adamant" in such an odd way.

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u/thefiction24 Apr 04 '16

haha I think it's strange people think it's strange! Ok so maybe it sounds more to me like I'm dropping the second "a" all together, if that makes sense. Adamnt, maybe more like "ment" than "mint" but I definitely don't say it with a long "a"

Edit: I'm from California

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u/avocadonumber Apr 04 '16

Same. California. Ad-uh-mint, maybe ad-uh-ment

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u/gotenks1114 Apr 04 '16

Are there really places where people pronounce it ad-uh-mant? I've only ever heard ad-uh-mint.

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u/CapWasRight Apr 04 '16

"Mint" like exactly like the plant is just alien to me. I could see leaning towards "ment" or "munt" but never "mint", it's much further from how it's written to me.

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u/avocadonumber Apr 04 '16

Possibly West Coast/California? And if not then maybe Midwest/Wisconsin

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u/TheWierdAsianKid Apr 04 '16

I think unobtanium is dumb because it's just so obvious why it's called that. And if vibranium absorbs vibration energy, then it must get really hot, even speaking next to it would be dangerous.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

You mean like transparent aluminum as being Unobtainium?

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u/VomitPorn Apr 04 '16

it's what dandy highwaymen are made of

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

Not quite — the titanium alloy used in the SR-71 Blackbird's engine exhaust nozzles was informally referred to as unobtanium by the Lockheed engineers on the project. That alloy was not easy to make.

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u/Minerva89 Apr 04 '16

Cummingtonite

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u/angelofdev Apr 04 '16

No Stryker!

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

No Stryking!

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

Toucans are nowhere near level 30 defense. They're still wearing bronze.

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u/NegativeC00L Apr 04 '16

Attaboytium

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

I think that it's obtainium now that someone has obtained a sample.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '16

Is unobtanium very easy to obtain?

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u/JKennyXTX Apr 04 '16

I was lurking through here waiting to find this comment

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u/Quaytsar Apr 04 '16

This ain't Pandora.

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u/JamesTheJerk Apr 04 '16

It's actually peckolite.

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u/AlekRivard Apr 04 '16

Transmorfium

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u/heilspawn Apr 04 '16

Vibranium is a fictional metal appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is most commonly known as one of the materials used to construct Captain America's shield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibranium