01-09-2009, 12:33 PM | #2431 | |
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01-09-2009, 12:37 PM | #2432 |
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...but will it take off if it's on a treadmill?
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01-09-2009, 12:56 PM | #2433 | |
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36,000 cars times 14 feet for the average car length is 504,000 feet or 95.45 miles. I've never seen driving conditions like that. |
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01-09-2009, 01:13 PM | #2434 |
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On a somewhat related note, if everyone maintains a following distance of 2 seconds (and we'll assume that's from the front of one vehicle to the front of the next to eliminate variances in vehicle length), then 30 vehicles per minute per lane will pass a given point, regardless of vehicle speed.
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01-09-2009, 01:29 PM | #2435 |
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Why you gotta go break out the math on us, hlj? I was having such a good unproductive Friday, then you had to make me do math. :p
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01-09-2009, 01:48 PM | #2436 |
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glatt started it.
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01-09-2009, 01:57 PM | #2437 |
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and if glatt jumped off the Empire State Building, would you too?
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01-09-2009, 02:08 PM | #2438 | |
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01-09-2009, 02:30 PM | #2439 |
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It's a sure indicator that you are a geek when you start doing math on the numbers in a joke.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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01-09-2009, 04:29 PM | #2441 |
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01-09-2009, 04:42 PM | #2443 |
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w...wa...want.
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fucking flying squirrels
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01-09-2009, 06:28 PM | #2445 |
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....pours another scotch and adds that to bucket list.....
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