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There are multiple mentions of "extraterrestrial super islands", is this a mistranslation of the Meissner effect? Great term nonetheless.
by obituary_latte 3y ago
There are multiple mentions of "extraterrestrial super islands", is this a mistranslation of the Meissner effect? Great term nonetheless.
- jacquesm 3y agoYes, I saw that, there are some more obvious translation errors.
- rfoo 3y agoIt's the mistranslation of room-temperature superconductivity. "super islands" is likely translated from 超岛 which sounds the same as 超导 (superconductivity). I have no idea how 室温 (room-temperature) became extraterrestrial, must be extraordinarily bad speech to text model. edit: could be 室温 (shi4wen1) -> shi4wai4 -> 室外(outdoors)/世外(out of this world) -> extraterrestrial
- wg0 3y agoI wish I could learn CJK. Will take a lifetime to master.
- devindotcom 3y agoWhat a hilarious mistranslation. Somehow it is fitting though, as a totally unprecedented floating material.
- e63f67dd-065b 3y agoYou're exactly right on the extraterrestrial part: the speech to text transcribed it as "最近我们这个有关世外超岛的话题非常的火热"
- ansbalin 3y agoThe extraterrestrial super island of stability
- jacquesm 3y agoLet's break one rule at the time, please. I don't think I'm quite ready for heavy elements that are long lived, either at room temperature or any other, and even less so if they turn out to be non-radioactive... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability