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  • Origin and evolution of the pejorative slang

    In the mid-17th century, dick became slang for a man as a sexual partner.[5] For example, in the 1665 satireThe English Rogue by Richard Head, a “dick” procured to impregnate a character that is having difficulty conceiving:

    The next Dick I pickt up for her was a man of a colour as contrary to the former, as light is to darkness, being swarthy; whose hair was as black as a sloe; middle statur’d, well set, both strong and active, a man so universally tryed, and so fruitfully successful, that there was hardly any female within ten miles gotten with child in hugger-mugger, but he was more than suspected to be Father of all the legitimate. Yet this too, proved an ineffectual Operator.[6]

    An 1869 slang dictionary offered definitions of dickincluding “a riding whip” and an abbreviation of dictionary, also noting that in the North Country, it was used as a verb to indicate that a policeman was eyeing the subject.[7] The term came to be associated with the penis through usage by men in the military around the 1880s.[1]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_(slang)



  • Developed by a team led by University of Chicago Prof. Edwin Kite and in collaboration with Prof. Hooman Mohseni‘s research group at Northwestern University and Prof. Ramses Ramirez at the University of Central Florida, the concept involves generating iron or aluminum nanorods and suspending them in Mars’ atmosphere to create a powerful greenhouse effect, thereby warming the Red Planet.

    As the planet warms, large amounts of carbon dioxide currently in the Martian ice caps and adsorbed into Martian soil will outgas, thickening the atmosphere, and warming the planet still more. Then as the planet continues to warm, some of Mars’ vast ice deposits will begin to melt, causing the streams of Mars to flow again and its lakes to fill, opening the way for life.

    The concept is a breakthrough because previous terraforming plans required the production of fluorocarbon gases on Mars to begin the warming process, and the availability of the required quantities of fluorine on the Red Planet is not established. In contrast, iron or aluminum are so omnipresent everywhere on Mars that it gives the planet its color, and, indirectly, its name.