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I'm not sure it follows that it's a clickbait term rather than having a simpler explanation. It seems more to me that "explosive cyclogenesis" is a bit too comp

I'm not sure it follows that it's a clickbait term rather than having a simpler explanation. It seems more to me that "explosive cyclogenesis" is a bit too complex for the sub 7th-grade reading level most Americans are comfortable with. To me, the relationship is pretty clear: Explosive => Bomb Cyclogenesis => Cyclone Suddenly your news article is based on a concept whose nomenclature doesn't require you to know how Latin roots work.

techdragon 4y ago
Like a bomb calorimeter… you rapidly decompose your sample to efficiently extract the energy from it in thermal form for measurement.
PopAlongKid 4y ago
My point was that while the actual weather event has presumably been happening for all of human history, it is only in the last decade or so that the term "bomb" has been applied to it, which I conclude is solely for clickbait reasons. here is some evidence: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bomb+cyclone&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bomb+cyclone&y...
- thefurdrake 4y ago
  And my point is that your conclusion have to doesn't follow when pandering to American literacy to make sure the lowest common denominator comprehends what they're reading is just as likely a scenario. It's been a trend in "journalism" for a very long time. You ignored what I said and repeated yourself, good job.
  - PopAlongKid 4y ago
    >to make sure the lowest common denominator comprehends what they're reading So are you saying that prior to the last 10-15 years, "lowest common denominator" people didn't understand anything about when a low pressure system developed quite rapidly around them, changing the local weather drastically -- because there was no easy-to-understand name for it?
    - thefurdrake 4y ago
      No, that is indeed not what I am saying.
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techdragon 4y ago

Like a bomb calorimeter… you rapidly decompose your sample to efficiently extract the energy from it in thermal form for measurement.

PopAlongKid 4y ago

My point was that while the actual weather event has presumably been happening for all of human history, it is only in the last decade or so that the term "bomb" has been applied to it, which I conclude is solely for clickbait reasons. here is some evidence: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bomb+cyclone&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bomb+cyclone&y...

thefurdrake 4y ago
And my point is that your conclusion have to doesn't follow when pandering to American literacy to make sure the lowest common denominator comprehends what they're reading is just as likely a scenario. It's been a trend in "journalism" for a very long time. You ignored what I said and repeated yourself, good job.
- PopAlongKid 4y ago
  >to make sure the lowest common denominator comprehends what they're reading So are you saying that prior to the last 10-15 years, "lowest common denominator" people didn't understand anything about when a low pressure system developed quite rapidly around them, changing the local weather drastically -- because there was no easy-to-understand name for it?
  - thefurdrake 4y ago
    No, that is indeed not what I am saying.
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