The Bible is old. It’s been around for a while now, and there’s really nothing new you can learn from reading it over and over again. It’s just the same old thing re-translated and reprinted a million times over, and with all the sex and violence in it, it just doesn’t really make for good morning reading.

Science, on the other hand, is awesome. You learn a new thing every day; useful practical stuff you can actually apply, or fun trivial stuff that make you think. Science makes a heck of a lot more sense, answers a heck of a lot more questions, and the ultimate proof of superiority: it has way cooler words.

Once in a while we need a dose of cool science, to start our day with awesomeness, and to brighten up a boring afternoon like this one. So every so often I’ll be posting a Nerd Word, something from a random branch of science that I, and perhaps other nerds like me, find utterly fascinating, with a little trivia on what it means.

And today’s Nerd Word is: Spaghettification.
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