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Re:Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with... by DrStalker on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @10:35PM (#9503019)
Is there a word like serendipity that means "found as a joke" instead of "found by a fortunate accident?"
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Re:Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with... by JoshTriplett on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @11:05PM (#9503082)
Not a single word, but http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html is related.
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Re:Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with... by derefr on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @11:08PM (#9503091)
Not a word, per se, but this mechanism of discovery tends to correlate with being the sort of thing that wins an Ig Nobel prize.
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