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Thanks for your biology contributions

You might be interested in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject. --JWSchmidt 05:20, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

cool. i'll check it out. thanks for the welcome! Openlander 05:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Dioptre

See Talk:Dioptre for why I removed the section you added. I added a better treatment of this at Magnifying glass. See also Magnification.--Srleffler 05:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

i appreciate the education; thanks! i put back just an explanatory pointer (hopefully not fatally flawed) to the section you identified, since people will come to Diopter wanting to answer this question Openlander 20:03, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Surface tension

Very nice observation on surface tension in the pressure jump section!!! You were right: it was a mistake Knights who say ni 12:37, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Profanity

Hi. I merged your "Foreign profanity" article back to Profanity. I saw in your first comment that you created the article as a spin-off, because the mother article was getting too long. I agree with you there, and I suggested some possible solutions on the talk page of the "profanity" article. TomorrowTime 01:30, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

List of swear words

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To view this deleted article, theoretically any sysop (admin) can do this for you. The guidelines actually cover what you want to do, so any one of them should be able to make the page available for trans-wikifictaion to wiktionary. I'm not a sysop, so you'll have to go over to their page Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention and get someone to help you. SkierRMH 18:44, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

List of non-English profanities

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Image:Nuts and seeds (996x563).PNG

You appear to be inactive, but I just wanted to say that this is a great image. So much information in one little diagram! Plasticup ^T/C 15:43, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

thank you! i have been contemplating another lately, too. Openlander (talk) 16:58, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: source

Sorry I didn't reply right away, but I haven't been on Wikipedia for a while. I would love to send or upload the source file; it is on another computer, though, and it could take a week or so to find it. I will do so ASAP. --Canadian Joeldude (talk) 13:57, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

i look forward to your upload with bated breath, and will send you a copy of my derivative once it's done. you may be amused. Openlander (talk) 16:59, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

if it would be easier, you could just email it to me at openlander@gmail.com which i would appreciate immensely! Openlander (talk) 07:13, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Madagascar Biodiversithy Center.jpg

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Heinrich Holland

Hi Openlander,
You started the page on Heinrich Holland, and I just wanted to inform you that he has died. See in memoriam ... . Back on May 21 actually from cancer. I came across him on at the http://astrobiology.nasa.gov website, checked here and found that he was still listed as living! I have updated expanded his page: diff. Just FYI, regards 220 of ^Borg 22:03, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much for letting me know. He was my advisor at Harvard, and quite an amazing person and thinker. I will miss him. Nice expansion of his page! Much appreciated. Openlander (talk) 00:19, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Openlander. Sorry to hear you knew Holland, though I am now glad that I did let you know. He had a pretty good run (85 years, married for 57! & 4 kids) for someone who was probably lucky to be alive, considering his origins (born Jewish in Nazi Germany!) Probably one of my larger BLP expansions. Though, as an IP editor I did a fair one on James Arness, luckily before he died, though his brother Peter Graves had just done so. Regards, 220 of ^Borg 15:42, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Would be wonderful if someone wanted to write a biography of him; he was such an interesting person. Did you know that he was raised in a fundamentalist religious setting, a community of scriptural literalists who recognizing a singular boy genius among them, educated him and sent him forth into the world to disprove the heretical emergent theory of plate tectonics, which asserted that the earth was more than a few thousand years old. He began the project by amassing all available information into his brilliant brain, only to conclude that the evidence was overwhelmingly in favor of the theory. Thus he changed his entire world view, and decided to become the foremost world expert on the billions-of-years evolutions of planets -- which he did. He wrote the definitive books on the subject, and gains an endowed chair at the world's top institution as that expert. Amazing. So many stories... Openlander (talk) 20:36, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

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