Mountain
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On one side, a mass of a mountain, a life I know.
Because in essence what it means is you can take a cell, which is a pluripotent stem cell, which is like a skier at the top of a mountain, and those two skiers become two pluripotent stem cells, four, eight, 16, and then it gets so crowded after 16 divisions that those cells have to differentiate.
So they go down one side of the mountain, they go down another.
And what those four chemicals do is they take any cell and take it way back up the
mountain
so it can become any body part.
And in this case, I quickly found this: The furthest point from the center of the Earth is not the tip of Mount Everest, like I might have thought, it's the tip of this mountain: Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador.
And even though Mount Chimborazo isn't the tallest
mountain
in the Andes, it's one degree away from the equator, it's riding that bulge, and so the summit of Chimborazo is the farthest point on Earth from the center of the Earth.
What this means is that if you could shrink the Earth to the size of a billiard ball, if you could take planet Earth, with all its
mountain
tops and caves and rainforests, astronauts and uncontacted tribes and chimpanzees, voodoo dolls, fireflies, chocolate, sea creatures making love in the deep blue sea, you just shrink that to the size of a billiard ball, it would be as smooth as a billiard ball, presumably a billiard ball with a slight bulge around the middle.
Now when you're talking about trying to travel long distances on rough terrain, I immediately thought of a
mountain
bike, and a
mountain
bike's good at doing this because it has a gear train, and you can shift to a low gear if you have to climb a hill or go through mud or sand and you get a lot of torque but a low speed.
So the logical evolution here is to just make a wheelchair with
mountain
bike components, which many people have done.
How do you make a
mountain
bike for your arms that doesn't have the
mountain
bike cost and complexity?
I got up off the seat of my bike and I started pumping my legs, and as I sucked in the cold
mountain
air, I could feel it burning my lungs, and I looked up to see the sun shining in my face.
And Andrew said to me, as we got over the training area, "You see that
mountain
over there?"
And he said, "Well, you take the controls, and you fly towards that mountain."
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this
mountain
and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
Mallory postulated that there is something in man that responds to the challenge of the mountain, and I wonder if that's the case whether there's something in the challenge itself, in the endeavor, and particularly in the big, unfinished, chunky challenges that face humanity that call out to us, and in my experience that's certainly the case.
Another success story is the
mountain
gorilla in Central Africa.
So many times, amateurs, not experts, have been the inventors and improvers of things ranging from
mountain
bikes to semiconductors, personal computers, airplanes.
Think about something like mountaineering and
mountain
climbing.
And if you think about
mountain
climbing as an example, it suggests all kinds of things.
I don't want to be the last trivia know-it-all sitting on a
mountain
somewhere, reciting to himself the state capitals and the names of "Simpsons" episodes and the lyrics of Abba songs.
After his accident, he dreamed of returning to his chosen sport of
mountain
climbing, but how might this be possible?
After his accident, he not only dreamed to walk again, but also to return to his chosen sport of
mountain
climbing.
This is a
mountain.
For example, the
mountain
and the fire together, we have fire
mountain.
What happened, that is, on the night in the year 610 when Muhammad received the first revelation of the Koran on a
mountain
just outside Mecca?
Muhammad did not come floating off the
mountain
as though walking on air.
So the man who fled down the
mountain
that night trembled not with joy but with a stark, primordial fear.
They don't have to struggle for it like Jacob wrestling through the night with the angel, or like Jesus in his 40 days and nights in the wilderness, or like Muhammad, not only that night on the mountain, but throughout his years as a prophet, with the Koran constantly urging him not to despair, and condemning those who most loudly proclaim that they know everything there is to know and that they and they alone are right.
It can wash the sludge off high
mountain
peaks and hills, down into the lowlands.
When the wind passes, rises to pass over the mountain, it can take on a wave-like path in the lee of the peak, with these clouds hovering at the crest of these invisible standing waves of air, these flying saucer-like forms, and some of the early black-and-white UFO photos are in fact lenticularis clouds.
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