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LA to Oregon at Mach 9
Kallahar writes "Last April I hooked up a video camera to my front bumper and drove from Los Angeles to Oregon. The video is finally done; it's sped up 95x which makes the trip a mere 6 minutes long. To do the recording I hooked up a VCR inside the car and recorded in real time, then captured the entire thing to the hard drive and changed the framerate of the avi. The camera and VCR only cost about $50 total, which makes for a fairly affordable hobby/art project."
And this is news? Maybe if somebody got that scramjet working, or if somebody built a huge open-air particle accelerator between the two locations... but this isn't even remotely interesting.
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Africus aut Europaeus?
that's like actively saying "I want my site to be fucked in the ass by the Slashdot Effect".
So that's what happened to goatse.
Table-ized A.I.
Um, no, but I bet you use that little untrue gem to justify your own aggressive driving, don't you?
Americans drive left-hand drive cars and drive on the right hand side of the road. I had to take travel sickness tablets after watching that.
Umm.. the guy was driving on a single-direction highway, with a camera mounted to the front of the car in a neutral location. It doesn't matter if the driver is inside of a gyroscope spinning around, flicking buttons continuously to make the car go, it's going to be the same view. Just imagine the drivers in the right-hand side, then your sickness tablets will be saved.
The roads are a lot wider? Is that because the US has bigger cars?
No, it's basically to allow you more cushion between you and your neighbor on the road. It allows us to get from point-A to point-B without superficial damage to our vehicles. Nevermind the fact that the view was of a major interstate highway that carries commercial traffic also. Aussie cars are the same size as American cars relatively.. hell, I have an Aussie-built car sold in both Oz and America and made in Adelaide, I should know.
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What it hurts your ego do shut the fuck up get in line and do the speed limit?