Oh, and one more thing. Normalizing "swim speed compared to body length" is worthless, unless you plan on altering the Olympics so that only people exactly the same height as Phelps can compete.
I've never seen a goldfish swim over 200m in a straight line, accelerating all the way. A tuna or dolphin would have been a better comparison, or shark of some sort.
You can get all that food for less than $42 in Oregon? I'm jealous. Where I am, a 3-piece at Popeye's alone is over $10. Adding in all the other things listed would probably bring me over $60, at least.
Thanks to that stupid Russian invasion, I looked at that map and immediately thought of how difficult it would be to defend the capital if one of those outer quadrants fell.
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. The Ossetians want their own independent country. The ethnic Russian that were imported by the truckload from Russia want it to be absorbed back into Russia. Russia refuses to recognize Ossetia or Abkhazia as independent nations because they just want to control the land they are on.
As for the most recent violence, those ethnic Russians and Cossacks that were trucked in by Russia fired on civilians outside of Ossetia, and the Georgians had no option but to move into their province of South Ossetia and stop the cossacks from killing more innocent people. Then Russia came in, bombed Tskhinvili, Gori, Tbilisi, and Poti, and sent tank columns in to conquer the Republic of Georgia.
There is only a finite amount of gold on Earth. Most of what people currently possess was mined an extremely long time ago, and was bought as scrap and remelted. It's one of the most recycled substances around.
One of the few things that creeps me out more than small, venomous spiders is those spiders working together like bees or ants. Eugh. What's next, wings?
Guess what? You can get a lot done when your entire country is afraid of being locked away for having a hair out of place on TV.
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. The Ossetians want their own independent country. The ethnic Russian that were imported by the truckload from Russia want it to be absorbed back into Russia. Russia refuses to recognize Ossetia or Abkhazia as independent nations because they just want to control the land they are on.
As for the most recent violence, those ethnic Russians and Cossacks that were trucked in by Russia fired on civilians outside of Ossetia, and the Georgians had no option but to move into their province of South Ossetia and stop the cossacks from killing more innocent people. Then Russia came in, bombed Tskhinvili, Gori, Tbilisi, and Poti, and sent tank columns in to conquer the Republic of Georgia.
This is nothing more than a neo-Soviet landgrab.
Social behavior in birds has been proven to deter predators and ensure survival of chicks. That's exactly how it evolved.