What does ripples mean?
Definitions for ripples
rip·ples
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slipper
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ripples in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ripples in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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The images of neighborhoods across Europe reduced to rubble due to wartime air raids are a lasting reminder of the destruction that can be caused by man-made explosions, but the impact of these bombs way up in the Earth's atmosphere has never been realized until now. It is astonishing to see how the ripples caused by man-made explosions can affect the edge of space. Each raid released the energy of at least 300 lightning strikes. The sheer power involved has allowed us to quantify how events on the Earth's surface can also affect the ionosphere.
Robert F. Kennedy, South Africa, 1966:
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo:
9/11 was so devastating, so tragic and then in many ways we lose so many more New Yorkers to this silent killer, it was a silent explosion that just ripples through society with the same randomness, the same evil that we saw on 9/11.
Gravitational waves are literally ripples in the curvature of space-time that are caused by collisions of heavy and compact objects like black holes and neutron stars.
Within world football, this is almost certainly the largest ever sports enterprise valuation, when we look at major league baseball and the eye watering deals in the NFL and even e-sports now, this news will no doubt cause ripples across the sporting and private equity worlds.
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