i wanna go fast
09-01-2010, 10:14 PM
#32
The actual fun of it is to enjoy the the drive specially through the twisties in the North Georgia and North Carolina mountains. As luck would have it, I decided to take an afternoon ride today. I almost took the truck, but at the last minute I took the 'vette. I got to the Amicalola State Park by early evening. It was a great ride. Beautiful countryside and I got pass a couple of people under WOT
I'm back home now just chilling and enjoying a cup of decent coffee
Like I said, I almost took the truck.... But at the last minute I decided to save on gas
Last edited by blade z51; 09-01-2010 at 10:21 PM.
09-01-2010, 11:59 PM
#33
Senior Member
OK, I'll accept face value that the 9th gen F150 trucks can go much faster than I thought. However, in the interest of public safety and rational thought, I think I should defend physics and math, and science in general. the myth about the science being wrong about bumble bees flying is just that. A myth that should be exposed. It's not safe or practical to ignore proven scientific laws of physics. One does so at one's own risk (and maybe at the risk of others too.
Here is a good explanation of the "bumble bees can't fly" myth:
The "science has proved that bees can't fly" urban myth originated in a 1934 book by entomologist Antoine Magnan, who discussed a mathematical equation by Andre Sainte-Lague, an engineer. The equation proved that the maximum lift for an aircraft's wings could not be achieved at equivalent speeds of a bee. I.e., an airplane the size of a bee, moving as slowly as a bee, could not fly. Although this did not mean a bee can't fly (which after all does not have stationary wings like the posited teency aircraft), nevertheless the idea that Magnan's book said bees oughtn't be able to fly began to spread.
It spread at first as a joke in European universities, at Sainte-Lague's & Magnan's expense. But later it became a "fact" among the gullible or the uneducated not smart enough to get the joke. Later still it became a "fun" experiment to develop complex mathematical theories both to explain how insects fly, or why they can't -- scientific intellectual sophism.
Though the folklore began as a joke about a steady-wing flight equation foolishly applied to mobile-wing, as often seems inevitable of folklore, the joke took on its own separate life. Silly reasoning evolved, building fallacy upon fallacy: Bees can't fly because it takes rear-wings to steady the flight, & they have no rear wings so they should tumble through the air ***-over-teakettle. No, that's not it, bee's can't possibly fly because it is physically impossible for wings to beat as fast as bee's wings beat. No wait, bees can't fly because the texture of their wings is too flat, unlike a bird or an aeroplane designed like aerofoil. Oh! No! Wait! Though bees can fly (because we've seen 'em do it) & it does follow physics, nevertheless science can't explain it, so there!
Source(s):
http://www.paghat.com/beeflight.html
http://www.ftexploring.com/askdrg/askdrg…
Here is a good explanation of the "bumble bees can't fly" myth:
The "science has proved that bees can't fly" urban myth originated in a 1934 book by entomologist Antoine Magnan, who discussed a mathematical equation by Andre Sainte-Lague, an engineer. The equation proved that the maximum lift for an aircraft's wings could not be achieved at equivalent speeds of a bee. I.e., an airplane the size of a bee, moving as slowly as a bee, could not fly. Although this did not mean a bee can't fly (which after all does not have stationary wings like the posited teency aircraft), nevertheless the idea that Magnan's book said bees oughtn't be able to fly began to spread.
It spread at first as a joke in European universities, at Sainte-Lague's & Magnan's expense. But later it became a "fact" among the gullible or the uneducated not smart enough to get the joke. Later still it became a "fun" experiment to develop complex mathematical theories both to explain how insects fly, or why they can't -- scientific intellectual sophism.
Though the folklore began as a joke about a steady-wing flight equation foolishly applied to mobile-wing, as often seems inevitable of folklore, the joke took on its own separate life. Silly reasoning evolved, building fallacy upon fallacy: Bees can't fly because it takes rear-wings to steady the flight, & they have no rear wings so they should tumble through the air ***-over-teakettle. No, that's not it, bee's can't possibly fly because it is physically impossible for wings to beat as fast as bee's wings beat. No wait, bees can't fly because the texture of their wings is too flat, unlike a bird or an aeroplane designed like aerofoil. Oh! No! Wait! Though bees can fly (because we've seen 'em do it) & it does follow physics, nevertheless science can't explain it, so there!
Source(s):
http://www.paghat.com/beeflight.html
http://www.ftexploring.com/askdrg/askdrg…