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  2. Umibōzu - Wikipedia

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    The only way to escape from an umibōzu safely is to give it a bottomless barrel, such that it cannot scoop up water, thereby giving the sailors a chance to escape. While it is confused and attempting to scoop up the water in a futile effort, the sailors have just enough time to sail away to safety.

  3. Free-fall time - Wikipedia

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    The free-fall time is the characteristic time that would take a body to collapse under its own gravitational attraction, if no other forces existed to oppose the collapse.. As such, it plays a fundamental role in setting the timescale for a wide variety of astrophysical processes—from star formation to helioseismology to supernovae—in which gravity plays a dominant ro

  4. Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel) - Wikipedia

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    Present-day civilization is doomed for the same reasons, but the researchers hope that saving a few hundred sane people in a hideout lit by newly invented torches and conducting detailed observations of the upcoming eclipse will help to break the cycle of societal collapse. The scientists are unprepared for the stars.

  5. How long can you stand on 1 leg? What it says about your ...

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    Single-Leg Stand: Stand on one leg while keeping your other leg lifted slightly off the ground. Hold this position for 20 to 30 seconds, then switch legs. Hold this position for 20 to 30 seconds ...

  6. Complications of prolonged standing - Wikipedia

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    The basic physiological change that occurs in the body during prolonged standing or sudden stand from supine position is that there will be increased pooling of blood in the legs. This decreases the venous return, and so there will be decreased cardiac output, which ultimately causes systolic blood pressure to fall (hypotension).

  7. What How Long You Can Balance on 1 Leg Says About Your Health

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    If you can stand on one leg for 30 seconds, you are doing well,” Dr. Kaufman said in the statement from Mayo Clinic. “If you don’t use it, you lose it. If you use it, you maintain it,” Dr ...

  8. Functional symptom - Wikipedia

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    Giveway weakness (also "give-away weakness", "collapsing weakness", etc.) refers to a symptom where a patient's arm, leg, can initially provide resistance against an examiner's touch, but then suddenly "gives way" and provides no further muscular resistance. It can also be seen if the examinee is not cooperating with the exam and does not ...

  9. St. Petersburg city council reverses course on Tampa Bay Rays ...

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    The change of course came after the council voted to "delay consideration of revenue bonds for a proposed new $1.3 billion Rays ballpark," according to the Associated Press.