Re: Google Cloud went down

JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

On 13 Jun 2025 16:43:24 -0300, Mike Spencer
<mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
 

New word: Clathrosynclastic -- broken together in a basket

 
AI Overview
 
"Clathrosynclastic" is not a standard geological term. It seems to be
a combination of two geological terms: "clastic" and "syncline
 
Given that "clathrosynclastic" is likely a compound term, it could
potentially describe a geological structure where:
 
    Clastic sedimentary rocks are arranged in a syncline.
    The formation or characteristic of a syncline involves clastic
materials"

That's what you get whe you rely on so-called AI.  It's not a
geological term at all.  It's a neologism applicable in numerous
metaphorical cases.

Clastic -- Etymology

   borrowed from French clastique, from Greek klastos "broken in pieces"

   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clastic

Clathrate -- Etymology

   Latin clathratus, furnished with a lattice, from clathri (plural)
   lattice, from Greek kleithron bar, from kleiein to close

   Clathrate hydrate Clathrate hydrates, or gas hydrates, clathrates,
   or hydrates, are crystalline water-based solids physically
   resembling ice, in which small non-polar molecules or polar
   molecules with large hydrophobic moieties are trapped inside
   "cages" of hydrogen bonded, frozen water molecules.

Syn -- together, as in synthesis, syndactyly

Greek for basket is kalathi but kalathisynclastic doesn't sound as
strong and the trapping of small molecules in cages or baskets of ice is
a good mnemonic.

Clathrosynclastic: broken together in a basket.

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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada