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- Georgia is a 47 year old woman in a relationship from Louisiana, USA.
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- Member since Mar 30, 2007
Creative, cluttered, Aquarius/Rat. Main job: mother! all the rest just trails along behind. Moribund but not yet dead business, Wild Mustard. I want to be a science fiction writer when I grow up. For now I work full time in cancer research, part time in a bead store, and read scientific manuscripts and grants for fun & profit. My child is in 2nd grade and we have two cats. I'm here for friends and community, but for some reason the friends part (although checked!) is not showing up. Well, yeah, now that I *said* that, it's showing up :-)
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Colliding with natures best-kept secrets - CNN.com
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May 9, 10:16am
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•http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/09/ph...
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From the page: "Arkani-Hamed always had a great love of the natural world as a child. Though his parents are also physicists, he considers it his "act of teenage rebellion to become one too," as his mother wanted him to become a doctor.
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He remembers being impressed around age 14 that Newton's laws could enable him to calculate such things as the minimum speed that a space shuttle had to attain to escape the Earth's gravitational field. He'd wondered whether scientists had reached the figure of 11 kilometers per second by trial and error, shooting things in the air until the right speed emerged, until he could calculate it himself.
"When I figured out how to do that for myself, I just thought it was just the coolest thing, that little old me, scratching away on my piece of paper, could figure this out," he said. "From about 13 or 14, I knew that this is what I wanted to do.""
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