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Beyond wrote:I suck worse than you at scientific calculations.

Beyond wrote:But .9m/s is about 3-inches per second.

geckzilla wrote:I looked at my paper this morning and realized that I was probably off by one decimal place. So 9 m/s instead of .9 m/s. Which is still not impossibly fast but good grief, how do they accelerate and decelerate so quickly?

geckzilla wrote:I don't do it often enough.

geckzilla wrote:
I don't understand why having a bigger virus means it's closer to being a form of life. It is bigger and it has more genes but it still functions the same way by hijacking other cells to reproduce or it wouldn't be a virus, would it?

owlice wrote:

Always lovely to read a news article that refers to scientists as eggheads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles wrote:
<<Pericles (Greek: Περικλῆς, Periklēs, "surrounded by glory"; c. 495 – 429 BC) was the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age—specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family. Pericles promoted the arts and literature; it is principally through his efforts that Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural center of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). This project beautified the city, exhibited its glory, and gave work to the people. Pericles also fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics call him a populist.

Pericles' mother, Agariste, a scion of the powerful and controversial noble family of the Alcmaeonidae. According to HERODOTUS, Agariste dreamed, a few nights before Pericles' birth, that she had borne a lion. The story may allude to the unusual size of Pericles' skull, which became a popular target of contemporary comedians (who called him "Squill-head", after the Squill or Sea-Onion). (Plutarch claims that this deformity was the reason that Pericles was always depicted wearing a helmet.)>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droeshout wrote:
<<Martin DROESHOUT (April 1601 – 1650) was an English engraver whose fame rests completely on the fact that he made the title portrait for William Shakespeare's collected works, the First Folio of 1623. Coincidentally Martin Droeshout was baptized on St. George's Day, the day that both Shakespeare & Cervantes simultaneously died exactly 15 years later.>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_%28name%29 wrote:
<<William is a cognate from the German Wilhelm, and of Germanic origin: wil = "will or desire"; helm; Old English helm "helmet, protection". The name William has today been interpreted to mean protector of the kingdom or realm.>>