# also known as tungsten popular in-scene conversational phrase short for 'tungsten core micro mesh' general crossover term referring to the scenic practice of turning media 'cheese' into 'raw hardcore rnd' well not making it better exactly - more just wringing out the best in what's often already good enough for five minutes waiting between stations of the existential tide also directly akin to similar phrase 'techniques and final approaches'; one-word 'koan poems' which point toward more essential ongoing super modem synthetic natures of 'big science' for example 'ocean' and 'pacific' more on that later but for now // republic of bob