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[mamculuna]

The funniest thing about today's XKCD is how many commenters got the obscure trigonometry mnemonic reference, but had no clue about what kind of bomb was being tested in 1945...

(ETA: Am I revealing my age or my national background by knowing what Los Alamos is?)

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[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

This is clearly because they don't go to the opera enough. I did a consulting gig once that involved visiting the plant where they did the distillation of the Uranium Hexafluoride that provided the fissile material for the Manhattan project.

As to the acronym, I learned it in 1970 as "Some Old Hulks Carry A Huge Tub Of Ale".

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Now imagining a computer geek-modern opera reference cartoon...brain fail.

Glad you came back from that job without turning into something with glowing fins.

My teachers didn't give us cool mnemonic acronyms.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of John Adams' Doctor Atomic which was done at the Met last year.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

No, I knew what the opera was--meant I couldn't imagine an XKCD using an opera reference. But probably their writers can.

[usedtobeljs]

...whilst I got Los Alamos but had no idea about the trig. ;-)

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Me too! Had to google.