In the good old days when I used to take the train to Bell Labs (and would then walk from the New Providence station), there was often a small elderly (or so she seemed to me at the time) Irish woman, part of the train crew, who was the fastest talker I have ever heard. It was as if she belonged to a different species - some chameleon ancestor, no doubt. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep18625 was the paper it was based on. It says invertebrates produce even higher accelerations: some planthopper insects: 719 gee takeoff mantis shrimp claw strikes: 10^4 gee trap-jaw ants (jaw): 10^5 gee
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