Part II - The Use Of The Term "Boom Shakalaka" In One Of Geophysicist Stefan Burn's 3 I Atlas Podcasts & In That Podcast's Discussion Thread

Edited by Azizi Powell

Latest revision -November 7, 2025

This post is Part II of this pancocojams series.

This post presents some definitions of the African American originated term "Boom Shakalaka" that Stefan Burns used in his podcast about 3 I/ Atlas that is showcased in Part I of this pancocojams series.

This pancocojams post also presents some comments from the discussion thread of this showcase video that include the term "boom shakalaka".Some other discussion thread comments that don't include the term "boomshakalaka" are also included in this pancocojams post for vontext..

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/10/art-i-3-i-atlas-geophysics-and.html for Part I of a two part pancocojams series about 3 I/ Atlas and the use of the African American created term  "Boom Shakalaka" by the podcaster, geophysicist Stefan Burns  and by some commenters in tht podcast's discussion thread.

That post showcases a video of that abovementioned podcast and presents the official description of that channel. This pancocojams post also presents an excerpt of the auto-generated transcript.

In addition, that pancocojams post presents some information about 3 I /Atlas (also given as "Three i/ Atlas" (spelled with an upper case letter i).

The Addendum to that pancocojams post presents a definition of the terms "the sun's corona", "supermoon", and "perihelion". Each of these words are found in this video's summary and/or in its auto-generated transcript. 

The content of this post is presented for socio-cultural, geophysics, and linguistic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Stefan Burns for sharing his knowledge and opinions about geophysics and, in particular, about 3 I Atlas. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/10/sly-and-family-stones-1968-hit-song-i.html for the related pancocojams post entitled "Sly And The Family Stone's 1968 Hit Song "I Want To Take You Higher" And Its "Boom Shakalaka" or "Boom Laka Laka" Lyrics"

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DEFINITIONS OF THE TERM "BOOM SHAKALAKA"
A. What "Boom shakalaka" means in context of Ai Atlas and coronal mass ejections 
An acknowledgement of, appreciation of, and excitement about the explosive power of 3I Atlas and/or an acknowledgement of, appreciation of, and excitement about the explosions and/or the explosive power of coronal mass ejections and an expression of excitement, joy, and satisfaction about the explosive power of Ai Atlas and the sun's coronal mass ejections. (Read the section about "More On Stefan Burns Used The Term "Coronal Mass Ejections" below.) 

Many commenters writing the word "Boom shakalaka" in Stefan Burn's podcasts emphasize the word "boom" (the sound a bomb or dynamite makes) in that term.

Update: November 7, 2025- Here are a few comments from Stefan Burn's 
November 6, 2025 podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uXFELv_EbQ "New Rogue Object Discovered"
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1.@eugeniovasquez3780, Nov. 6, 2025
"Im still hungover from all the boom 💥 shakalakas from yesterday's live stream. And now this new object is in space. Just when I thought I was all boom 💥 shakalakad out, i have another reason to get up and go boom 💥 shakalaka once again.

Thank you"

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2. .@bevturquoise4651
"BOOM Shakalaka!"

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B. Definitions For "Boom Shakalaka" Prior To Its Use In Relationship With Ai Atlas and the  
Source #1: AI Overview [retrieved on October 24, 2025]
"Boom shakalaka" is an interjection expressing excitement, triumph, or dominance, popularized in the 1990s by the NBA Jam video game announcer. The phrase likely originated from a misheard lyric in Sly and the Family Stone's 1969 song "I Want to Take You Higher" and became an onomatopoeia for a powerful basketball dunk, according to this Facebook post, Wiktionary, and Quora.

Meaning and usage

An exclamation: It's an expression of excitement, joy, triumph, or dominance.

Onomatopoeia: "Boom" can represent the sound of a basketball hitting the rim, and "shakalaka" can represent the rattling sound of the net during a powerful dunk, notes Quora and this YouTube video.

Popular context: It is famously associated with basketball, especially for slam dunks.

Example: You might say "Boomshakalaka!" to affirm a great play or achievement.

Origin

Musical roots: The phrase may have originated from a mishearing of the "boom-laka-laka-laka" lyrics in the 1969 song "I Want to Take You Higher" by Sly and the Family Stone.

NBA Jam: The term was popularized by the 1992 video game NBA Jam, where the announcer Tim Kitzrow famously used it to describe powerful dunks. Kitzrow later attributed the phrase's popularity to a scriptwriter who saw it in the movie Stripes.

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Source #2
From https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boom+shakalaka
WARNING-  Some of the definitions for this term in urbandictionary.com are sexual. I'm not including those definitions, in part, because that isn't the meaning of that term as it was used in Stefan Burns'  3I/Atlast Podcast and its discussion thread. 

1. "boom shakalaka

the sound that is heard when someone makes an awesome slam dunk.

when tim duncan made that dunk, the announcers yelled in unison, "BOOM SHAKALAKA!!!!

by Anonymous May 22, 2003"
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This is the top definition for this term on this urbandictionary.com page [as of October 25, 2025]

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2. "boom shakalaka

Something a person says after doing or saying something that they think is cool.

She finished the marathon in record time, as she crossed the finish line she shouted Boom Shakalaka!

by LucyDayDay January 17, 2016"
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This is the second definition for this term on this urbandictionary.com page.

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3. "boom shakalaka

Contrary to popular belief, it's actually the sound of a shotgun getting shot and re-cocked.

GIVE ME SOME ELBOW ROOM, I NEED SOME ELBOW ROOM, SO I CAN *BOOM SHAKALAKA BOOM*

THAT'S THE SOUND OF THE 20 GAUGE, LOCK US UP AND DA LENCH MOB CAN BREAK OUT OF ANY CAGE!

by de la bro April 13, 2010"
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This is the fourth definition for this term on this urbandictionary.com page.

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Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakalaka for a list of how "Shakalaka" and "Boom Shakalaka" have been used in American music, movies, and games.

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MORE ON HOW STEFAN BURNS USED THE TERM "BOOM SHAKALAKA" IN HIS OCTOBER 24, 2025 PODCAST ABOUT 3 I Atlas
In his October 24, 2025 podcast Geophysicist Stefan Burns referred to coronal mass ejections the two or three times he used the term "Boom Shakalaka".

Here's a portion of the information about coronal mass ejections that I included in Part I of this pancocojams series on 3 I Atlas and "Boom Shakalaka":  

Coronal mass ejections
From https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/coronal-mass-ejections "Coronal Mass Ejections"
"Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic field from the Sun’s corona. They can eject billions of tons of coronal material and carry an embedded magnetic field (frozen in flux) that is stronger than the background solar wind interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) strength. CMEs travel outward from the Sun at speeds ranging from slower than 250 kilometers per second (km/s) to as fast as near 3000 km/s. The fastest Earth-directed CMEs can reach our planet in as little as 15-18 hours. Slower CMEs can take several days to arrive. They expand in size as they propagate away from the Sun and larger CMEs can reach a size comprising nearly a quarter of the space between Earth and the Sun by the time it reaches our planet.

The more explosive CMEs generally begin when highly twisted magnetic field structures (flux ropes) contained in the Sun’s lower corona become too stressed and realign into a less tense configuration – a process called magnetic reconnection. This can result in the sudden release of electromagnetic energy in the form of a solar flare; which typically accompanies the explosive acceleration of plasma away from the Sun – the CME...
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Given that information, I think that Stefan Burns used the term "boom shakalaka" to emphasize the explosive nation of those expulsions as expressed by the word "Boom" and at the same time he was expressing how "cool" (amazing, awesome) coronal mass ejections (and also 3I/Atlas) are.

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS PODCAST'S DISCUSSION THREAD
All of these comments are from October 24, 2025. These comments are given in no particular order.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3FpgvizYrc  "3I/ATLAS's Orbit UNCHANGED by Massive Ongoing Solar Explosions 💥 Latest Breaking Updates"

Three HUGE coronal mass ejections have been blasted from the Sun towards interstellar object 3I/ATLAS during it's closest approach to the Sun, and we visual confirmation of it's movement over the past few days due to it's appearance in CCOR-1 coronagraph imagery! Is 3I/ATLAS triggering all this intense farside solar activity, and will that renewed burst of energy eventually impact the earth in early November around the time of the Full Supermoon? Is earthquake activity about to pick up in a big way? Latest updates on 3I/ATLAS, space weather, and Earth gegophysics by geophysicist Stefan Burns

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1. @AceThaDragon
"It doesn’t matter what we think…if 3IATLAS IS a spaceship then it’ll make itself known. What it’s doing now isn’t comet behavior take it or leave it.

P.S if you think about it, it is Alien because it’s not known to us based current science"

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2. @FredNel-l9b
"What amazes me is that a 50 km sized piece of rock can affect something as big as the sun when the earth is thousands of times bigger than that little piece of rock, but when you put the earth next to the sun its like a pin head size next to a soccer ball, meaning you wuddnt even see 3i Atlas next to the sun lol, amazing and there must be something verry special about that piece of rock to have that ability right ??? 🤔, its verry confusing and verry hard to believe too 👀, btw i have believed all along that its just a piece of rock flying through space and just happened to come across our solar system"

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3. @Roxy4324
"@FredNel-l9b  Being billions of years old, maybe, I think it seen more than just our little sun 🤞🏻 it makes it back to wherever it came from ☄️🖤"

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4. @Anomize23
"Perhaps some kind of weird element on this rock that it’s harnessing energy from which could be some kind of element from another solar system? Very interesting stuff"

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5.@mid-lifechesscrisis
"BOOM SHAKA LAKA ALLLRIGGHHHHT 🎉❤"

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6. @valenriquez8882
"my question is why were 3 coronal mass ejections blasted towards 3iAtLAS? is it kind of a defense system from the sun? did atlas ask the sun for plasma energy? why?"

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7. @casket8530
"Cant wait for this thing to pass so all the ufo nutjobs can settle down"

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8.@pennyburns6123
"Your the best. What would we all do without you? I thank you very much. Boomshakalaka☄️🔭💪🏼  🌞🌎🌝👀    🌕"

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9. @JaneK-q9n
"The sun is saying, hey. .this is my domain 🥰"

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10. @hiltonhillhomestead
" "shewwwing" ATLAS away. Lmao!🤣"

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11. @spikekobler2598
"Very interesting. The Sun is aware of 3I/Atlas and blasting it with flares."

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12. @"nazlily
"The Sun energising Atlas I thought."

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13. @JustMe-cs5zq
"​ @nazlily I wondered the same thing..."

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14. @HAL900032
"its electric.."

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15. @DanielSmith-yu9wq
"Boom Chaka Laka!"

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16. @kancltwoful
"Good to see at least one channel being grounded about this while keeping an open mind. It's strange and we won't know until we do. But regardless of what happens, this is the time of change."  

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17.@JTCgaragetraining
"Im pretty sure it's safe to say. Go max out your credit cards. Live life to the fullest and do everything on the bucket list!"

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18. @Michael-e1i5k
"Uranus = Expect the Unexpected"

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19. @jvllejan
"Super freak it's a super freak 🌠"

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20. @davethe-bear9923
"👽👽 ITS RECHARGING FROM THE SUN. ,,,,Like POINTING PHASERS AT THE DILITHIUM CRYSTALS!!!!! 2:27"

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21. @hootieandyblowfish2013
"So our sun is just a gas station ? Cool!"

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22. @anthonymoscon18
"Its a flying rock yall"

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23. @cobz76
"Everybody gangsta, until 3I/ATLAS comes away from the back of the sun, flys past Earth and... STOPS in front of Earth...    🛸 🌎  Surprise Mother*  *  *  *  *  *!"
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This is the way that this comment is written in that discussion thread.

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24. @OneOfAMineRocks
"BOOM SHAKA LAKA 💥"

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25. @ETCDITR
"I think the sun is fighting it off and blasting in its direction to make sure it gets kicked out of orbit. Just my thoughts but what do I know lol"

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26. @kevinestrada900
"BOOOM 💥 SHAKALAKA"

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27.@peterwbryce1
"Thanks, Stefan! This event amplifies the tenuous nature of human existence and past civilizations' near extinctions. OMG, if only humans could get their poop together from recognizing this event! Boomshakalaka!"

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28. @peewee747
"There is far too much sensationalist and speculative content on YouTube regarding 3i/Atlas, so it's a relief to find an objective, fact based presentation like this one. Thank you Stefan"

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29. @1eightrcracing
"Awe man such a bummer. Was really looking forward to meeting some extraterrestrial beings"

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29. @niurkalopezcuba4230
"BEST TIME 2 BE ALIVE. BOOM 💥 SHAKALAKA YES"

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30 . @thinkvoiceact

"I feel both relieved and disappointed to hear 3i/atlas is behaving as expected. Thanks for the great information Stefan, I'm putting my trust in you!"

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31. @ednacrabapple5392

"I always wait for his videos before believing anything. I’m so glad he’s here."

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32. @OneOfAMineRocks
"BOOM SHAKA LAKA 💥"

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33. @WoozyMoose5150
"Aliens hauling interstellar Sasquatch eggs. Can't be anything else. 🤔"

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34. @scoobydee3954
"They are coming for us"

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35. @hangmanbangman
"Whatever it is, this is an amazing time to be alive.. I'm not sure where humanity is headed, but our future is as limitless as we allow it to be"

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36. @criswohlfeil9884
"Amazing!

Boom Shakalaka💥 this is so exciting ☄️  Thank you Stefan Burns for all the hard work you do to always keep us updated! Love your enthusiasm soul tribe brother ☮️🩷🙏"

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37. @uniqueme1976
"Yeah.. Thank God.. for a moment there I though I'm gonna see that apocalypse future.. 2nd chance is good even when humans are still terrible.. See you around aliens.."

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38. @es3238
"I love that you show your excitement with BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!! Do you think we’ve traveled in to a part of the galaxy where there are interstellar objects that we just never aware of until now…I love watching you!!"

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39.@desertweasel6965
"It's unheard-of for any comet to not change trajectory whatsoever WITHOUT these solar blasts. This thing has been hit twice with MASSIVE solar flares and basically laughed at them."

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40. @DuaneBall-s9f
"It’s a rock people calm down"

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41. @sivader17
"Can a random "rock" carry out such manoeuvres at such a crucial planetary positional time?

Not likely"

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42.@garyglynn9945
"Thanks, Stephan! Astrologer, Richard Nolle (who coined the term "Super Moon") tags this one as an eXreme Supermoon - about as close as the moon ever gets to the Earth. The last X super rmoon was about 3 years ago but the next one won't happen until 2034! Boom shaka lacka!"

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43. @alice-xm6by
"God is in control and he sees everything in space. It's divine intervention that the sun sent those huge coronal mass ejections to Ai Atlas."

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44. @nardcore661
"I think I’m a nerd, i actually understand this stuff and i watch your videos in full"

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45. @danbartstow9829
"We are all doomed! Doomed! We have a target on our earth! 😊"

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46.  @truthhurts3811
"Glad to hear something that sounds sound !  Our Ancestors knew stones were related to gods, which is why they raised them towards the cosmos. 3iAtlas is a complex organism of minerals that have reached cosmic consciousness. A level of consciousness much higher than human/mankind consciousness, a level of consciousness on the same level as the soul of planet earth. It is not here for us, it is here to communicate with the god like souls of the planets and the suns it passes by."

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47. @jamesshevnin981
"Booshakalaks coming in hot. Thanks Stefan. Another great presentation."

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48. @nobaloneymahoney7940
"Short Circuiting the sun! Is that what he said! Whoah! Talk about your BoomShakaLakaBoom 😮"

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49. @elmedloxen
"We're down here like heeeeeelp"

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50. @tbarkley8100
"Just wow, it's all just amazing."

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51. @esardeste
"I'm 57 and i hope im still fit to fight when aliens invade us 💪"

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52. @JanChristine-LivingInLove
"I still believe it is Alien. And I believe it is no coincidence that the US government is closed for business, allowing for our own individual discernment of what it is. I also believe that they are opening our minds to the possibility of Aliens, whilst also checking our collective readiness for contact. I, for one, am looking forward to  this eventual mass contact. Please note that this is my opinion, and keep in mind that at any time on Earth there are over 8 Billion people with over 8 Billion opinions. 😁"

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53. @K.A.R.Y.O.N
"Oh boy. Im here to learn and to just appreciate watching the passion of someone doing what they love to do, and we’re born to do. Thankyou and it’s Stefan who is BoomShakalaka himself."

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54. @glennllewellyn7369
"Booom!

Love it!"

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55.  @theshiftwork
"Interesting times are upon us 🙌🏼🌟✨"

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