Even the word giant has the same root: it's just omitting the second g, gi(g)ant, for better pronounciation. It's gigas with the latin ending -nt meaning "the one who does", comparable with the english -ing.

Actually, giga(s) is greek and means "giant". And yes, the syllable for the billion is derived from the greek word. But that doesn't mean that the original meaning just vanishes.

No, as usual, things with no immediate use but too hardly earned to get thrown away get stashed until the time comes. And then forgotten. There is no cabal here. Guys can hope, but to hope natural laws change at will just to support the own ideology has the ring of futility to it.

It's Password Managers all the way down!

No, 700 miles is pretty close. 850 would be more closer though, it's about 1300 km.

While Westphalia is part of the ancient settlement area of the historical Saxons, contemporary Saxony has nothing to do with it. Actually, the title of Archduke of Saxony was handed to the Duke of Meissen, when the original Saxon line of Achedukes died out in the 15th century, carring the name Saxony from today's Westphalia and Lower Saxony to Meissen and Dresden.

Because most clocks sold worldwide still display the term GMT even though they are in reality using UTC.

No. I don't understand their behaviour. I know why they are acting that way. But that doesn't mean I understand them. I think they are exactly the type of person she complains about rightfully.

I have a DSL line on twisted copper with 30 MBit/sec. I've seen demonstration installs with 230 Mbit/sec on twisted copper. NSN has demonstrated 825 Mbit/sec on DSL via twisted copper in 2010. So where does your 20 M come from?

Hm. So you were saying, that you don't have the choice of fast food chains, because Domino's only serves pizza, while McDonald's only serves burgers?

An organism benefits from plasticity in changing or not optimal environments. About every organism shows signs of a certain plasticity. It doesn't just thrive under optimal conditions, but it can also exist in not so advanturous environments, but it doesn't grow to the same size, reaches the same age or produced the same amount of offspring. Nevertheless, thanks to plasticity, it can overcome the situation.

Additionally, we have van t'Hoff's rule, stating that increasing the temperature will result in 2-3 times the speed of the reaction. Reversely it means that organisms living close to the freezing point of water have their reaction speed reduced to about one tenth to one hundredth.

According to Benoit Mandelbrot, the coastline is infinitely long indeed.

I don't see it either, but this begs the question if the robot to automaticly lay bricks has some advantages compared with a robot that 3d-prints the wall.

Criticizing by mentioning that an often used idea is proven? This is no critic, this is just stating the obvious.