Re:In the land of empty tanks
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Out of Gas
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Oops, missed a digit. Perhaps 70mpg for coke?
Re:In the land of empty tanks
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Out of Gas
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· Score: 1
Based on http://www.cptips.com/calex.htm, it takes a human being 23Cal/mile (kcals) to ride a bicycle at 15mph. Asuming for the sake of argument that said human is living on fat (9 calories/gram), said human will get about 1200mpg while cycling. If a more reasonable fuel is chosen, say Coca Cola (tm), the efficiency drops to 550mpg.
This 550mpg does not apply if said human is trying to tow a semi-trailer full of widgets from Ontario to California.
Ground remote controls will simply add another point failure location. So you forge the necessary radio transmissions. I doubt that computer security will improve enough to prevent this.
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Oops, missed a digit. Perhaps 70mpg for coke?
Based on http://www.cptips.com/calex.htm, it takes a human being 23Cal/mile (kcals) to ride a bicycle at 15mph. Asuming for the sake of argument that said human is living on fat (9 calories/gram), said human will get about 1200mpg while cycling. If a more reasonable fuel is chosen, say Coca Cola (tm), the efficiency drops to 550mpg.
This 550mpg does not apply if said human is trying to tow a semi-trailer full of widgets from Ontario to California.
Ground remote controls will simply add another point failure location. So you forge the necessary radio transmissions. I doubt that computer security will improve enough to prevent this.