Terminal velocity (THIS IS A TROLL THREAD)

[Sven7]

Originally Posted by Regenerit

And wth is making manufacturers take so long to produce something like the Aptera 2e turbodiesel or something with 4 wheels?

Women- "They look weird"
Men- "Gheeeyyyyyyyyyyyy"

And with those four words, the American public has effectively rejected automotive innovation.

[user removed]

Originally Posted by Christ

If a tear drop is such a great aerodynamic shape:

Why does the rain drop have a terminal velocity of only 25f/s, compared to the outstretched human, with a tV of ~250f/s?!

Checkmate, aerodynamicists!

Surface tension (rain drop)

Sectional density (human with best speed aspect)

regards
Mech

[Vman455]

Originally Posted by aerohead

Fish have only been around for a couple million years,and the Sun won't red-dwarf for about 4.5-billion years,so evolution of fish will continue steadily,albeit slowly until then,when Earth perishes just like billion of other planets have done already.

More like a few hundred million years--they've got quite the jump on us when it comes to streamlining experience!

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by Sven7

Women- "They look weird"
Men- "Gheeeyyyyyyyyyyyy"

And with those four words, the American public has effectively rejected automotive innovation.

I don't know about that. There were a lot of people who put down deposits on the Aptera, and more (like me) who couldn't because they were only taking them from California. I put it down to incompetent and/or dishonest management, myself.

Besides, if you can get people to buy Harley-Davidson tricycles...

And I was joking about the fish, really.

[t vago]

Well, I wasn't.

I have yet to have a satisfactory answer to this question:




Heh.

[Rokeby]

We're not even certain what it means to be human, or why we are here...
and that's after smart people have been thinking about it for 1,000s of years.


So, I'm all for the birds dealing with their issues and humans dealing with
theirs. After all, it's far more likely that we will take down the birds than the
other way 'round.

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[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by Rokeby

Why Am I Here? 
Why am I here on earth? Where did I come from? What am I worth? Do I have any intrinsic value? Do I serve a purpose? These are all fundamental questions.

And they have all been answered by the philosopher Hobbes (the stripy one, not the 17th century English guy): Tiger food.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by Vman455

More like a few hundred million years--they've got quite the jump on us when it comes to streamlining experience!

Yes,In my mind I posted 200 million years.Ah yes,my mind,what a strange thing!

[tortoise]

Originally Posted by Rokeby

The meaning of life is deeply entrenched in the philosophical and religious
conceptions of existence, social ties, consciousness, and happiness, and
borders on many other issues, such as symbolic meaning, ontology, value,
purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, conceptions of God, the existence of
God, the soul, and the afterlife.

Before we work on the meaning of life, we need to address the meaning of "meaning". Just sayin'.

[t vago]

Originally Posted by tortoise

Before we work on the meaning of life, we need to address the meaning of "meaning". Just sayin'.

What do you mean?