[Insight-users] DIE ANOTHER DAY...

[Luis Ibanez]

   "THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN WHILE YOU
    WAIT FOR YOUR PAPER TO BE PUBLISHED"

In the typical 18 months that pass between the
submission of a paper to a Scientific Journal
and its eventual publication, the following
things will happen in the (real) World around us:


  -  193 Million babies will be born  [1]

  -  830,000 People will die of Cancer
             in the US [2]

  -  1.1 Million people will die of Heart
         diseases in the US [3]

  -  45,000 Species will disappear from the
            face of the Planet [4]

  -  Tectonic plates of the Pacific will
     separate by 24 cm. [5]

  -  The City of Venice will sink 3mm [6]

  -  A Spacecraft can cruise from Earth to Mars [7]

  -  Sea level will increase by 2.2 mm due to
     Global Warming [8]

  -  4.5 Million people will die of AIDS
         worldwide [9]



Curiously:

It takes less than one hour to post a PDF file on the Web.
It takes Google less than 10 days to index your newly posted PDF.
It takes 0.4 seconds for Google to return your paper in a search.


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[1] http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwe
[2] http://www.cancer.org/
[3] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/nvsr52_09p9.pdf
[4] http://creo.amnh.org/
[5] http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ozsvath/images/plate%20rates.htm
[6] http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030818/venice.html
[7] http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/timeline.html
[8] http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/cenear/951127/pg1.html
[9] http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/aidsstat.htm