[URL="http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/02/sonic_boom_meets_sun_dog.php"]http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/02/sonic_boom_meets_sun_dog.php[/URL]

[url]http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/leftover-valentines-chocolate-use-it-to-measure-the-speed-of-light/[/url]

[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100222/sc_livescience/5thingsthatwillmakeyouhappier;_ylt=ApIt6FX4_MWUV3gUnisCJHOzvtEF;_ylu=X3oDMTE1MXFjZ3U3BHBvcwMzBHNlYwN5bi1jaGFubmVsBHNsawM1dGhpbmdzdGhhdHc-[/url]

[url=http://www.physorg.com/news186830615.html]Free will is an illusion?[/url]

[url=http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/02/mega-giga-tera-hella/]Mega, Giga, Tera, and Now the Hella[/url]

[QUOTE=retina;207239][url=http://www.physorg.com/news186830615.html]Free will is an illusion?[/url][/QUOTE]

Why does he bother to tell us? If we don't have free will then we can't decide whether to agree or not, we just will.

Oh wait - he can't stop himself because that would require free will.

[QUOTE=retina;207241][url=http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/02/mega-giga-tera-hella/]Mega, Giga, Tera, and Now the Hella[/url][/QUOTE]I would think that that report is 1 month and 1 day early.
20,000 facebook fans is nothing. An onion ring had 1.6 megafans.

recta- would make a better choice. It is an unused letter and sound combo, but is not subject to language problems that b, v, or w would, nor a dyslexic q p d b problem.

how about 1.21 jiggawatts

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;207271]recta- would make a better choice.[/QUOTE]Isn't recta the plural of rectum?

[QUOTE=CADavis;207281]how about 1.21 jiggawatts[/QUOTE]I thought that was 'gigawatts'. Doc Brown uses a soft 'g', like the 'g' in age, which makes it sound like a 'j'.

[QUOTE=retina;207293]Isn't recta the plural of rectum?[/QUOTE]
Then explain rectangle?