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      08-15-2014, 10:29 PM   #67
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With today's technology and just about everyone carrying smart phones there are suddenly no more UFO sightings.
Where did they all go then?
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With today's technology and just about everyone carrying smart phones there are suddenly no more UFO sightings.
Same goes for bigfoot sightings..
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Same goes for bigfoot sightings..
And mermaids and Merman
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A lightning strike will leave a tattoo on your body.

They are fractal patterns and it's called a Lichtenberg figure
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Red sprites and blue jets are names of upper atmospheric phenomenon that happen above thunderstorms
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It's amazing how people do not understand what's going on, when they ask, "Should I get 18's or 19's or 20's."

If you say, 18's, because with 19's you have one less inch of rubber and more unsprung weight.

They not only don't seem to understand, they'll come back and ask, "But with 19's, if I'm going 60 mph, how long will it take me to go 60 miles, compared to the 18's?"

It's like our entire public school system is failing these days.
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It's amazing how people do not understand what's going on, when they ask, "Should I get 18's or 19's or 20's."

If you say, 18's, because with 19's you have one less inch of rubber and more unsprung weight.

They not only don't seem to understand, they'll come back and ask, "But with 19's, if I'm going 60 mph, how long will it take me to go 60 miles, compared to the 18's?"

It's like our entire public school system is failing these days.
And the obscure random fact is.....?
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It's amazing how people do not understand what's going on, when they ask, "Should I get 18's or 19's or 20's."

If you say, 18's, because with 19's you have one less inch of rubber and more unsprung weight.

They not only don't seem to understand, they'll come back and ask, "But with 19's, if I'm going 60 mph, how long will it take me to go 60 miles, compared to the 18's?"

It's like our entire public school system is failing these days.
This reminds me of the youtube video where a boyfriend asks his girlfriend "If you are going 60 mph, how far will you go in 1 hour?"
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The peregrine falcon is the world's fastest animal, reaching speeds of 175 to 200
miles per hour when swooping.

For land animals it is...no, not Cheetahs.

It's a little mite that can run the equivalent of 1,300 miles per hour
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The peregrine falcon is the world's fastest animal, reaching speeds of 175 to 200
miles per hour when swooping.

For land animals it is...no, not Cheetahs.

It's a little mite that can run the equivalent of 1,300 miles per hour
Get out. Source please?
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The peregrine falcon is the world's fastest animal, reaching speeds of 175 to 200
miles per hour when swooping.

For land animals it is...no, not Cheetahs.

It's a little mite that can run the equivalent of 1,300 miles per hour
That would be great if speed were scalable. This is like folks saying scale model airplanes can do 2k mph. Nope, they go just as fast as if they were full sized. Is a Mini faster than a Suburban when going both are going exactly 60 mph?

Cheetah, faster than any insect.
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That would be great if speed were scalable. This is like folks saying scale model airplanes can do 2k mph. Nope, they go just as fast as if they were full sized. Is a Mini faster than a Suburban when going both are going exactly 60 mph?

Cheetah, faster than any insect.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/...-land-animals/

http://time.com/82120/and-the-worlds...est-animal-is/

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic....-mites-record/

Since an insect can't travel is segments of miles per hour we'd have to scale the animal up in order to use that measure hence the extrapolation to a human's size...

"At its quickest, the sesame seed-size Paratarsotomus macropalpis zips along at about 322 body lengths per second (a measure of speed that shows how quickly an animal moves relative to its size). For a human, that’d be like running 1,300 miles (2,000 kilometers) an hour."
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Here's a test. Go to a zoo, jump the wall at the elephant exhibit. You're a lot smaller than that elephant. Kick one in the dangly bits. Start running at a slower pace than the elephant. Get back to me about relative speed.
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Here's a test. Go to a zoo, jump the wall at the elephant exhibit. You're a lot smaller than that elephant. Kick one in the dangly bits. Start running at a slower pace than the elephant. Get back to me about relative speed.
lol ok, I guess you're missing the point of it

It was about relative speed not absolute speed.
If you want to do a test, take it to the scientists that presented the data


---and elephants don't run, some would argue.
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That would be great if speed were scalable. This is like folks saying scale model airplanes can do 2k mph. Nope, they go just as fast as if they were full sized. Is a Mini faster than a Suburban when going both are going exactly 60 mph?

Cheetah, faster than any insect.
Yeah I am with you on this, I thought it odd an insect doing Mach 2 on the ground..lol

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---and elephants don't run, some would argue.
Hmm, you'd be surpised I was watching a nature show once and was stunned to find how fast they can charge. Ever see a bull elephant in must..not pretty.
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Hmm, you'd be surpised I was watching a nature show once and was stunned to find how fast they can charge. Ever see a bull elephant in must..not pretty.
they're surprisingly fast, for sure. and a stampeding herd is not something I'd want to be in front of.


I'd like to see that mite's 1/4 mile drag time
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