I can ride 45mph…
02-24-22, 10:45 AM
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I can ride 45mph…
if you round:
"I've developed a novel propulsion system powered by loss of precision in unit conversion."
"I've developed a novel propulsion system powered by loss of precision in unit conversion."
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02-24-22, 10:59 AM
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wonder if she was impressed
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That guy is funny, but for some reason I always forget about him.
BTW, the OP cartoon can double as an intro to chaos theory.
02-24-22, 02:34 PM
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02-24-22, 03:23 PM
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p.s. Little known fact. Dilithium alone propels a starship at 1 furlong/fortnight. Warp drive is rounding.
"Cap'n, we can't round anymore, she'll tear herself apart!"
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02-25-22, 03:02 AM
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According to J. Michael Straczynsk, space ships in a TV series travel at the speed of plot.
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02-25-22, 03:36 AM
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Well done 👊 i done a video the other day me nearly hitting 60mph on a MTB 180 rpm and over took a car cant post links yet as i am new here
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Meh, that’s barely 7.5E-10 parsecs/fortnight (rounding up).
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02-25-22, 04:08 PM
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I actually did ride 42 mph on flat ground. But I had one hell of a tailwind pushing though a valley where Carnegie Park is. I was also spinning like you couldn't imagine. It took me several minutes to loosen up enough to spin that fast. The reading was on the Garmin
02-25-22, 11:27 PM
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'one hell of a tailwind' and 'spinning like you couldn't imagine' are just the precision needed to jump to the 2nd level of rounding!
Go for 60 on a 'notso steep' descent.
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02-25-22, 11:46 PM
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I nearly hit 60mph doing 180 rpm on a MTB down the tumble in south wales and over took a car on a flatish part
Watch the gopro video showing the descent and garmin its called
The Tumble Descent on a MTB
Watch the gopro video showing the descent and garmin its called
The Tumble Descent on a MTB
02-28-22, 02:56 PM
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I don't have to cheat. My SA XL-RD5w heavyweight went 46 mph on a medium slope hill with a tailwind.
02-28-22, 03:54 PM
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I once did 31 mph on the flats with a 25 mph tailwind I'm guessing. The weirdest part is that I was going relatively fast for the flats, and with a semi-vigorous 360 - 380w effort, but because there was practically no wind going across my ears (because I was moving at the same speed as the wind around me), that there was this odd serene silence. I mean I guess this occurs any time your forward speed matches the tailwind speed, but the silence I experienced was much more obvious due to the more intense speed. Sort of like (but not really like) watching the ISS astronauts doing space walks while travelling 17,500 mph (10x faster than a bullet), yet everything looks so calm and windless (yes, I know that's because there's no air in space, and this is an apples/oranges comparison).
Anyone else ever experience this fast-moving-tailwind-silence phenomenon?
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