Fun Facts. 1  Table tennis has been an Olympic sport since 1988. 2  In professional table-tennis volleys, the ball can reach speeds as high as 90 miles per hour. 3  Table tennis is the national sport of China.  Table tennis is the second most played sport in the world, behind soccer.
In medicine this is used to document the patient's exertion during a test, and sports coaches use the scale to assess the intensity of training and competition. The original scale introduced by Gunnar Borg rated exertion on a scale of 6-20. Borg then constructed a category (C) ratio (R) scale, the Borg CR10 Scale. This is especially used in clinical diagnosis of breathlessness and dyspnea, chest pain, angina and musculo-skeletal pain.
Creating the Borg. One Star Trek: The Next Generation episode that would exert a major influence on the future of Star Trek was âQ Who?,â which was written by Maurice Hurley and marked the third appearance of the popular Q, played by John de Lancie. The episode also had the distinction of introducing Star Trekâs nastiest villains â the Borg.