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Biking @ 80 MPH
sadclown writes "Saturday marked the conclusion of the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain Nevada. Canadian Sam Wittingham now holds the world record for human powered speed on land, 80.55 mph, on the Varna Diablo, a fully enclosed 60 pound recumbent bicycle. Other competitors included Matt Weaver, with his video-camera-navigated bike (no windows)the Kyle Edge, World (conventional bike) Sprint Champion Jason Queally, with his bike the Blue Yonder Challenge, designed by the formula one race car designer Reynard, and the UC Berkeley team, The Bearacuda, in which two riders pedal back to back. Wittingham's new record is nearly 8 mph more than his record last year. Hopefully some of the aerodynamic technology can be applied to commercially available vehicles (cars, maybe?)."
again, for captain kludge!!!
sounds like hard work to me... especially on a monday morning.. ugh work..
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story..."
Fuck you with your nautical mile. It's meter-kilogram-second or nothing, no exception.
ISLAM
...
Forgive this. But I will not forget.
Our dead cry out in tortured horror:
Kill all Muslims.
Kill all Mohammedans.
Kill all Arabs.
Kill all Towel Heads.
Kill all Camel Jockeys.
Kill all Sand Niggers.
Kill all Dune Coons.
Kill all Islam.
Nuke their countries to hell.
Nuke them again.
Death to Islam.
I piss on Mecca. I spit on the Koran. I shit on Mohammed.
I call on the Destruction of Mecca and Medina, the most unholy shit dumps on earth.
You don't have to be a Kreskin to predict Osama bin Laden's future
And to all you Abdul Mohammed Al-Jaraazi Abdullah Mustafuh Atta Quadaphi Fuck-Head Al-Towel-Rag:
Your "God" is our "Satan," have fun burning you scum. You disgusting animals, you will be a fresh farm of much needed organs for people who need livers and hearts, but I personally would rather die than receive a heart or liver from your satanic self.
Hey, Ayatollah towel heads, you will be sent to heaven to meet your maker. (That would be Satan)
I have no ability to stop my hatred towards you Ayatollahs, you better not peep out like a mushroom in a festering swamp lest I shoot your vile head off and harvest your organs for people who need them and cremate your vile self for crop fertilizer.
ISLAM
Tales from the Koran: How Mohammed met his end.
We shove Jimmy Dean® Homestyle Pork Sausage up Mohammed's ass.
Then while the Giver strokes me off I shoot my wad in Mohammed's face, after which we force Mohammed to fellate an 800 pound Chester White. Simultaneously, two Hasidic rabbis open their kosher bowels, unleashing torrents of gefilte shit on Mohammed's head and back, while The Giver pumps Mohammed from behind. After the hog shoots its wad in Mohammed's mouth, The Giver shoots his load up Mohammed's rectum. Then, unexpectedly, the Chester White roots out Mohammed's penis and testicles, hungrily biting them off, gobbling them down with full porcine fury. We bury the newly castrated Mohammed up to his nose in pig manure. Two AIDS infected Bowery whores stuff their used condoms and clotted tampax down Mohammed's throat, and crack a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 over his skull.
We then leave him for the hogs to munch on. Mohammed is swine feed, and by tomorrow, he will be swine manure.
GOAT KORAN
For it is written in Mine book that goats are PLEASING and HOLY, in Mine eyes.
I have told the Prophet Mohummad, peace on him!, that he should try a goat, but he is an 'ass-infidel', and persues young moslems.
For this is pleasing in Mine eyes as well! I hearby issue a Fatwah: May the asses of the infidels be reamed by the Prophet, peace on him!, until they look like the goat man, who is of the devil.
IsLaM
99 Morally Bankrupt Fuckwads on the wall
99 Towel Heads Up On The Wall
99 Sheep fucking twits,
You shoot one down,
You kick it around,
98 Rag Heads left on the Wall.
98 Cumlicking Chickenshits on the Wall,
98 Camel sucking penis stuffers,
You shoot one down,
You kick it around,
97 slimy turds left on the wall.
97 Raghead Swine on the wall,
97 Shit Encrusted pukes,
You shoot one down,
You kick it around,
96 moronic flea harbors left on the wall.
If you see a rear spoiler on a car, the chances are high that it is designed not for downforce but to channel air over the taillights to keep them clean.
this was funny. it might have been an attempted Troll (using the murky Slashdot definition) but it was still funny, and I think it was on purpose.
Ahhaaaha! No really, wish I mad mod moints. :)
Bah, that's BS too. For the rest of us that don't live in Newfoundland, we do use the metric system.
For example, the mighty CN Tower is 553m tall (for you americans, that's 365 feet taller than the Sears Tower).
The only time I can think of where we use Imperial is sometimes with physical measurements -- height (5'7), mass (195lb) and penis length (8").
I setup my speedometer in my car to display my speed in furlongs per fortnight. Whats wrong with that?
Funnily enough, the U.S. was the FIRST country in the world to make metric measurements legal.
The U.S made the metric system legal in 1866 and in 1875, the US was one of the first countries to sign the Convention of the Metre, which established the international usage of the metric system.
So the U.S has been metric for over a hundred years, just not in common use.
As a matter of fact, the legal definitions of the pound, inch, mile etc. are based on metric units.
An inch is DEFINED as 2.54 cm. for example.
Ah, a metric boy. I've eaten you guys for lunch.
One thing, what kind of goof thinks there are 2cm in one inch? It's 2.54. Now, as for benefits of imperial: One inch is the average length of your thumb, tip to first knuckle. A span(3") is the width of your hand, your foot is approximately one foot.
Imperial measurements make you learn fractions. When I was taking a course in machining, there where a lot of guys there for whom the only math they learned in their entire lives was the math they had to learn in that class. Thanks to imperial, they learned fractions. They never would have learned that with metric - in fact, they didn't. You see, they had been taught metric in school. In Canada, NOBODY in the machinist trade uses metric. It's entirely imperial.
It's an imperial world.
Paul Anderson
"I drank WHAT?!" -- Socrates
I don't think you really want us Americans to start using metric units. Sure it would all be easier, but it hasn't happened yet, and it probably never will.
:)
While scientists use metric units all the time, the average person (me included) can't remember if a kilometer is slightly longer or slightly shorter than a mile which could lead to some very interesting traffic issues
Secondly, I can't think of one country in the world who uses all metric measurements. Doubt me? Name one country who uses metric time (http://zapatopi.net/metrictime.html)
Yup.. you just need enough Jigga-watts, and a flux capacitor!
No, I think that was Al gore.
http://www.boatsafe.com/kids/roger1099.htm
offers a fine explanation of a nautical mile. Synopsis: it is the distance of one minute at the equator, or 6,080 feet. If does *not* change with your lattitude, however, so doesn't really accomodate Earth's roundness any more than standard miles.
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There's a big difference between a TV antenna with a restaurant in it and the Sears Tower...
The biggest thing car makers could do are:
1) make internal airflow in the engine bay better
2) put panels on the bottoms of the cars to clean and manage the airflow underneath. Many aerodynamic-looking cars *are* quite aerodynamic, until you include the airflow under the car...
These things add cost while adding little, if not nothing, visibly "cool" to the average car buyer.
This was 1995 just south of Dublin. And yes, apparently everything was close... 15 minutes away. That must be an Irish minute... minute and a bit... lol!
Where do you put the flux-capacitor?
(Btw, there is no flux through a capacitor by definition, only an electric field across two plates.)
The biggest trick the devil pulled was letting lawyers become politicians so they can write the laws.