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I believe you've just figured out (or one of those eminent scholars did)
why it's so hard to lose weight. Every time you work off a cubic centimeter of flab, the body reconfigures itself... sheesh!
posted by
Pat_B
on May 19, 2012 at 4:32 AM
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His numbers were mind boggling and then the pea! Just hard to conceive it visually, my brain refuses to expand for me, although I do get what he is saying! sam 
posted by
sam444
on May 17, 2012 at 11:54 PM
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I am finally making some small progress toward a wee understanding of your recent posts.... Is this equilivent to the size of our Country's debt now? Is the pea analogy a comparitive brain equity to that of the man who put us into this debt?
Imagine a row of dots a millimetre apart and a meter long. That will be one thousand dots (103). One thousand such rows next to one another gives a square meter of dots, one million (106) in total. Now stack one thousand such squares into a cube a meter high. That is a billion (109)...One thousand of them stretched out a kilometer long takes us up to a trillion (1012), and a square kilometer will be (1015)...Finally [we end up with a structure] one thousand by one thousand kilometres and a kilometer high, [which] would comfortably cover the entire British Isles to that height. At last we’re there: the number of dots we now have (1024) is around the number of atoms in a pea.
posted by
Justi
on May 17, 2012 at 10:47 AM
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Your posts help me to learn something new. You exercise our minds by encouraging us to think, thank you.
posted by
Amanda__
on May 16, 2012 at 12:34 PM
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Deep and thought provoking..
Over my head, lol but well done series, Naut! 
I've pondered the motion of particles as far as wondering what force or energy activates and shapes them and what keeps them moving..suppose that is the basis of religious thought; the genesis and/or meaning of life. 
posted by
Katray2
on May 16, 2012 at 6:25 AM
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Its still a little deep here, but I thought I would mention that my mother named all of her cats Lucy regardless of sex, and all of her dogs Tippy, and Tippy always chased Lucy back in her now. Great posts.
posted by
UtahJay
on May 15, 2012 at 11:32 PM
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Oh Dear!! 
posted by
BrightIrish
on May 15, 2012 at 3:43 PM
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It would have been nice if my 'thornbushes' had prefered a model's shape...
. These molecules being in constant motion - maybe that's the reason I can't settle down and sleep at night. I feel the little buggers dancing around in there!!
posted by
adnohr
on May 15, 2012 at 1:48 PM
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It's raining cats....Alleluia it's raining cats......oops that song is
actually about raining men....Oh never mind I will have to ring my Son tonight now and ask him how the tulips are doing!!! He will be just getting out of bed and standing himself upright when I ring. This sleeping upside down is tough on Aussies! I know, it's time for me to leave........let the intellectuals have their say.
posted by
Kabu
on May 15, 2012 at 11:41 AM
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WEll Naut it has taken me longer to read this than it would forty cats a leaping and forty swifts a flying. So the brain must must be slower reacting than most things, well mine is.
If Kabu receives information that her son's turnips are being dug up by whatever almost instantly, how can she reply instantaneously and say' shoot the beggars.'
posted by
C_C_T
on May 15, 2012 at 10:07 AM
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It's amazing to me that someone or some people have been able to figure out these sorts of things.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 15, 2012 at 10:02 AM
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One has an alarming image
of cats within cats within cats....
And anyone with the smallest knowledge of cats, knows the potential for cats from cats from cats...
posted by
Ciel
on May 15, 2012 at 9:19 AM
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