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10-02-23, 12:54 PM | #2866 |
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The human body is made up of an average of seven billion atoms.
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10-02-23, 03:12 PM | #2867 |
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A puff is an informal name for a picofarad (pF), which describes an object’s ability to hold electrical charge.
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10-03-23, 12:49 PM | #2868 |
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The average diameter of an atom is one tenth of a billionth of a meter.
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10-03-23, 03:56 PM | #2869 |
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"The speed of light is one foot per nanosecond.
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10-04-23, 02:30 AM | #2870 |
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I once signed up for a Wikipedia account just to tell the author(s) of a particular article that they had specified the location of a city in degrees with fifteen decimal places - a precision of 0.1 nano-meters, or the average width of a single atom.
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10-04-23, 04:16 AM | #2872 |
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Atoms are composed of even smaller particles called quarks and leptons.
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10-04-23, 04:58 AM | #2873 |
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Since the speed of light is seldom constant, I would agree
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I would agree with that also
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10-04-23, 08:47 AM | #2876 |
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If the sun was filled up with Earths, you could fit about one million Earths inside the sun.
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10-04-23, 04:09 PM | #2877 |
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It is common to announce that a horse won a race by a number of lengths. But what exactly is a length?
A horse length is 8 feet.
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10-05-23, 06:40 AM | #2878 |
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It takes an average of eight minutes and twenty seconds for light from the sun to reach the Earth.
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10-05-23, 09:54 AM | #2879 |
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All imperial units received a definition based on SI-units, usually decades ago. This means that even the Americans are using the metric system (and have been doing so since at least the 1960s), it has only been cloaked behind a thin veil of imperialism
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10-05-23, 01:23 PM | #2880 |
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It's usually pointless to call the fire brigade when a cat sits in a tree - wherever cats climb up to they can climb down from as well.
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