("We just got a bad blood-pressure reading, we need to exercise, and we'll feel happier when we do"; "It's sort of like asking a bumblebee how it flies"; "Anyone can jump out of a plane and pretend they're flying for ten minutes"; "We have already hit the iceberg and the S. S. Humanity's going down").
In some of the most basic ways imaginable -- how fast people can run, how high they can jump, how far they can throw -- the march of progress has stopped.
Some of this looseness of game play leads to frustration; more than a few times in my play time, I've had to re-do a challenging environmental puzzle because it's hard to judge accurately how you can jump or what your character's capabilities ultimately are.
"It's very easy to see how pathogens can jump from animals to humans," said Epstein, whose research sends him around the world on the hunt for the next potentially pandemic-producing virus in wildlife before it jumps to humans.
It's different from holding up Michael Jordan and saying how high he can jump or how many shots he makes".
As a spectator, it's remarkable to realise how quickly you can jump into a story, how eagerly you begin to anticipate the action, and the immediacy of your emotional investment.
Look how high she can jump and how long she can hang".
They can work out how tall they are, how far they can jump and reach and take their pulse rate.
There seems to be no limit to how rapidly these bugs can spread, how they can jump among hosts and how they can complicate their life cycles to avoid eradication.
They like to show how they can jump up and down, which they do like any other children, or climb into their crib, which they do like self-taught gymnasts.
