Things That Scare Me.

[Doc]

This morning, while having a cup o coffee, I was flipping through a college handbook / course book. Just wanted to see what the kids today are learning about.

While flipping through the "T"s I see Thanatology, nice to see that's around. Just a few entries down though almost made coffee shoot through my nose.

Thermo-Nuclear Dentistry. WTF?!

What the hell is Thermo-Nuclear Dentistry? This is not a typo.

"Hmm this molar isn't coming quietly. Somebody get me... The A-Bomb."

When did dentists get involved in the arms race? Is this punishment for not flossing?

I must be misunderstanding something, but this is what the book says.

I for one, am glad I am never going to the dentist again.

So uh, somebody mind filling me in? What the hell is Thermo-Nuclear Dentistry?

Does this mean we are going to need a lot more laughing gas and novacaine?

[TaMeOlta]

Ooooh ! :blink: Looks like those wisdom teeth are gonna hafta come out ....

[Minionman]

This morning, while having a cup o coffee, I was flipping through a college handbook / course book. Just wanted to see what the kids today are learning about.

While flipping through the "T"s I see Thanatology, nice to see that's around. Just a few entries down though almost made coffee shoot through my nose.

Thermo-Nuclear Dentistry. WTF?!

What the hell is Thermo-Nuclear Dentistry? This is not a typo.

"Hmm this molar isn't coming quietly. Somebody get me... The A-Bomb."

When did dentists get involved in the arms race? Is this punishment for not flossing?

I must be misunderstanding something, but this is what the book says.

I for one, am glad I am never going to the dentist again.

So uh, somebody mind filling me in? What the hell is Thermo-Nuclear Dentistry?

Does this mean we are going to need a lot more laughing gas and novacaine?
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Nuclear probably means they use radiation for something, and it could be Thermo with a dash means that there's a "thermo" part and a "nuclear" part that don't need to go together. Googling it hasn' turned up anything, but it seems that there are some studies that use teeth to cshow what some bomb effects are, that could also be it.

[Drasca]

So uh, somebody mind filling me in? What the hell is Thermo-Nuclear Dentistry?

So you want me to become a Dentist just so I can give you 2-megaton atomic fillings? Or shall I go for something a little less lethal? Like, a set of steel dentures with crocodile kung fu grip :D

Don't know what thermo-nuclear dentistry is. Too busy with thermodynamics in Chemical Engineering---thought I'd be working with drugs and explosives and the occasional distillery. That, or building cool giant machinery... I sorta got that in Chemical Engineering... uh, yeah. The power of chemistry compells me to have a headache.

[Treesh]

Nuclear probably means they use radiation for something, and it could be Thermo with a dash means that there's a "thermo" part and a "nuclear" part that don't need to go together.  Googling it hasn' turned up anything, but it seems that there are some studies that use teeth to cshow what some bomb effects are, that could also be it.
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You need more google-fu training. ;)

There are actually quite a few colleges/universitites out there that have nuclear medicine courses. I still don't know why the "thermo" part in your case Doc, but nuclear medicine isn't that crazy. Want to know what scares me? The fact that there is a billboard in town advertising lazik surgery at our local Walmart. Yes, you can now get surgery at Walmart. Be scared.

[Rhydderch Hael]

Thanatology? The generation of students who were raised playing Resident Evil games now have Thanatology courses for an option?

Crap. Makes me long for the days when I could have gone for Necromancy and Divination classes instead of that useless ol' Computer Office Administration curriculum... :wacko:

[Doc]

Thanatology? The generation of students who were raised playing Resident Evil games now have Thanatology courses for an option?

Crap. Makes me long for the days when I could have gone for Necromancy and Divination classes instead of that useless ol' Computer Office Administration curriculum...  :wacko:
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I took courses in Thanatology. I don't think it is what you think it is.

It's the study of death and the bereavement process, and how to comfort widows. The various religious aspects of death, the actual biological processes of death, but it's mostly how to comfort people that have lost loved ones.

I don't know about now, but when I did it, it involved sitting in a hospital room and watching somebody die. It's not for everybody, you need some sense of cold clinical detatchment. Otherwise it screws with your mellon.

[TaMeOlta]

.....phew ! I'm glad Thanatos isn't back ..... I was worried that the Silver Surfer hadn't kicked his butt out of our galaxy ...... :whistling:

[Urza-DSF]

...you need some sense of cold clinical detatchment. Otherwise it screws with your mellon.
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Hmmm, I dont believe I agree with you on that one. It dosen't nessicarily require detatchment, just acceptance. People fear death because its the greatest of unknowns and people fear what they do not know. This is of course coupled with loosing someone who has been close to you, usually for quite a long time if you in actual mourning.

But for me, death is the next part of life. It's inevitable and there is no reason to get horribly worked up when someone close to you passes on. It's better to respect their memory by focusing on this world and not worrying about what happens whenever this is over.

[Guest]

I dont believe you.

Give the recent propensity for Lurkers to to post audacious liesnks to lies and then have a good laugh when someone falls for it(a bad trend by the way) I dont really buy the story.

If you are serious I think it is either a typo or you have mistyped something. I could be wrong and some crank decided to have some fun with a college cataloge, but i doubt it.

[Doc]

Actually, from what I have been able to gather, Thermo-Nuclear dentistry is the applications of lasers and nuclear medicine to dentistry. For people that have various types of cancers, growths, etc, that need to be taken care of. The name sounds much scarier than it really is.

In my mind, it still sounds like some mad dentist planting an A-bomb in somebody's mouth when a tooth wont come out. Gives me a delicious case of the shivers.

So, does this mean the barbaric practices of dentistry will one day get better? Instead of sawing a tooth that will not come out, they could burn it out nice and clean with a laser? No more drilling?

Since finding out, I am still very much in the dark.

Dental carries look out... You are going to get burninated!

[pakman]

Let's analyze this here actual rankine cycle with two reheats. Remember your isentropic efficiencies and what it looks like on a T-s digram with respect to the saturation lines. And while we're at it, let's do entropy balance for fun! I just took thermo this past semester and it was not fun :(

So you want me to become a Dentist just so I can give you 2-megaton atomic fillings? Or shall I go for something a little less lethal? Like, a set of steel dentures with crocodile kung fu grip :D

Don't know what thermo-nuclear dentistry is. Too busy with thermodynamics in Chemical Engineering---thought I'd be working with drugs and explosives and the occasional distillery. That, or building cool giant machinery... I sorta got that in Chemical Engineering... uh, yeah. The power of chemistry compells me to have a headache.
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[Minionman]

Nuclear mediciine, I knew what it was, adding the thermo makes it more confusing.

[Minionman]

So you want me to become a Dentist just so I can give you 2-megaton atomic fillings? Or shall I go for something a little less lethal? Like, a set of steel dentures with crocodile kung fu grip :D

Don't know what thermo-nuclear dentistry is. Too busy with thermodynamics in Chemical Engineering---thought I'd be working with drugs and explosives and the occasional distillery. That, or building cool giant machinery... I sorta got that in Chemical Engineering... uh, yeah. The power of chemistry compells me to have a headache.
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That's what I'll be doing in the next few years.

[Occhidiangela]

Let's analyze this here actual rankine cycle with two reheats.  Remember your isentropic efficiencies and what it looks like on a T-s digram with respect to the saturation lines.  And while we're at it, let's do entropy balance for fun! I just took thermo this past semester and it was not fun :(
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I always liked Thermo. The study and application of things going boom, and of heat in general, is interesting to me. Of course, Combustion is more the "things that go boom" course, but Thermo is a pre req that I enjoyed.

As for isentropic anything, IIRC that's rar to find other than "on paper." There's a little madness and chaos in everything real, which is nice -- at least I think so.

Occhi

[Doc]

I always liked Thermo.  The study and application of things going boom, and of heat in general, is interesting to me.  Of course, Combustion is more the "things that go boom" course, but Thermo is a pre req that I enjoyed.

As for isentropic anything, IIRC that's rar to find other than "on paper."  There's a little madness and chaos in everything real, which is nice -- at least I think so.

Occhi
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I know how to make things go "boom" but I really didn't go to college to do it. Leave me alone in a workshop with common household chemicals and I can make amazing things, but I have absolutely no idea why it does what it does, nor can I name half the chemicals that go into it.

Give me a danish tin, some fertilizer, and some stuff commonly found under the kitchen sink, along with a digital watch, and a few other electric bits, and a nine volt battery, and I can make something that will make so big a "boom" that it would blow an entire house to splinters and crumbly bits.

I guess this makes me dangerous. But damn, it's so much fun.

[Rhydderch Hael]

I took courses in Thanatology. I don't think it is what you think it is.

It's the study of death and the bereavement process, and how to comfort widows. The various religious aspects of death, the actual biological processes of death, but it's mostly how to comfort people that have lost loved ones.

I don't know about now, but when I did it, it involved sitting in a hospital room and watching somebody die. It's not for everybody, you need some sense of cold clinical detatchment. Otherwise it screws with your mellon.
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Precisely what I thought. The science of death and dying. The study in both physical and spiritual aspects of one's cessation of life and entry into the state of death.

It just sounds like a good place as any for a mad scientist type to begin on his journey into making his very own Zombieville, too.

I'll stick to nekroi mantia, if you don't mind. Would rather talk to ghosts rather than than give them a return ticket to the mortal coil.

[Doc]

Precisely what I thought. The science of death and dying. The study in both physical and spiritual aspects of one's cessation of life and entry into the state of death.

It just sounds like a good place as any for a mad scientist type to begin on his journey into making his very own Zombieville, too.

I'll stick to nekroi mantia, if you don't mind. Would rather talk to ghosts rather than than give them a return ticket to the mortal coil.
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Science? I don't know if I would call it just that.

It's more like the philosophy of death. Science, biology, religion, and various schools of thought all rolled into one. It deals with a lot of things that science has currently no way to measure, chart, or apply scientific theory to.

[Munkay]

Precisely what I thought. The science of death and dying. The study in both physical and spiritual aspects of one's cessation of life and entry into the state of death.

It just sounds like a good place as any for a mad scientist type to begin on his journey into making his very own Zombieville, too.

I'll stick to nekroi mantia, if you don't mind. Would rather talk to ghosts rather than than give them a return ticket to the mortal coil.
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apothaneskomai is the ancient greek verb for 'to die.' Thanalogy is a derivation of the word ["Than"].

Who said philogy isn't practical!

Cheers,

Munk

[Doc]

apothaneskomai is the ancient greek verb for 'to die.'  Thanalogy is a derivation of the word ["Than"].

Who said philogy isn't practical!

Cheers,

Munk
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Thanatos is also the Greek name for the Angel of Death.

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