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I don't know much about coconut-laden swallows, but an unladen swallow flies along at roughly 10 meters per second (9.9 mps, per rough calculation).

Where did you get the thing about coconut-laden swallow anyway? Was that a line from a movie or something?

Does anyone here know the air speed velocity of...

Yes.

Well, the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is 11 meters per second. African or European.

http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

However, as soon as you strap a memory card to the swallow, it is no longer unladen. By definition.

Therefore, the bandwidth capacity of an unladen swallow is zero.

24 mph
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

Obviously it's not indexing http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

estimate that the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.

Good find. If you type that into google you'll find the information you're looking for in the first result *thanks for the auto-cite slashdot

That page even goes further to explain that the 47 african swallows are among 74 worldwide species of swallow.

It actually seems to be closer to 8.8 m/s.

About 11 m/s.

The author revised his number to 8.8 meters per second, or 20 miles per hour

http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/update/

What... is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow in flight?

About 24 miles per hour

Well, the European Swallow flies an average of 11 meters per second so that's half the answer there.

For some great analysis on the topic, read this: http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

For those in need, here's the official reference on "Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow". Enjoy.

http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

Here, and have all four capitols of Assyria while you're at it.

3. What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Now we can see how long the journey will take the snails. http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

It's VELOCITY, not SPEED.
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Oh, and the answer (examines the simple matter of weight ratios): http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

A better question would be is Kari single, and if she is, can I meet her? I live in the Bay Area and think she's the cutiest thing....

Did you mean unladen swallow?
If so, here's your answer.
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

Dude, I thought everyone had seen this by now.

It's +/- 24 MPH.

When I was young ...

lol

Sorry, but I laugh because it was exactly the same back when the first multi-node chat BBS systems started to show up.

It wasn't long before traditional single-node bulletin boards saw a decrease in traffic and us sysops were pissing and moaning about all the uneducated types showing up to our social events who had no clue of the significance of "ATQ0V1X4" let alone the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.

Times change, and they'll always do so.

The answer, of coursee, is at http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

It's a sparrow, not a swallow! The airspeed velocity of the unladen swallow can be found here!

People have looked into this, especially for you here.
And keeping this on topic; looking this up took me 2.5 seconds using Google. The library was closed and my Python-savvy friends' phones were turned off.

How about both?

~11m/s

Or an swallow.

No rhetoric or mapping can change the fact that Gore received half a million more votes than Bush.

The graph goes up to 1.8 (what's that? flying into a picture window at the speed of sound?)

The conveniently large error bar on the one sample species causes the graph to be compressed and amplifies the presumed conclusion beyond the significance of the data displayed.

If you look at the later graph, it's still not very evocative, as a reasonable understanding of fluid dynamics will tell you that the force and flow will be proportional to the amplitude and frequency of the stroke. Several of the animals nevertheless deviate from the "predicted range" by a significant amount, and from their near neighbors by 100% or more. Why?

The graphs are presented to give us the impression that the hypothesis is proved. The fact is, the data do not fit the hypothesized range.

The website deserves a Tufte award for Excellence in the presentation of visual information. Very impressive effort!

Though, no, such an award does not yet exist.