I've been getting nervous ticks for about two years as the media misuses terms of trajectory. "Spiral" is the one that really gets to me. They use the word, spiral when they really mean "hyperbolic trajectory". The stocks are not whirling around a fixed point in a plane and precessing, they are, uhmm... What's the term here? Oh yeah, they're sinking into the water faster than Jimmy Hoffa's body sunk into the Detroit river with lead weights attached to it. Stocks fell faster than DB Cooper when his parachute didn't open.
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I've been getting nervous ticks for about two years as the media misuses terms of trajectory. "Spiral" is the one that really gets to me. They use the word, spiral when they really mean "hyperbolic trajectory". The stocks are not whirling around a fixed point in a plane and precessing, they are, uhmm... What's the term here? Oh yeah, they're sinking into the water faster than Jimmy Hoffa's body sunk into the Detroit river with lead weights attached to it. Stocks fell faster than DB Cooper when his parachute didn't open.