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Friday, May 12, 2006

Funniest thing I've read today... by brian @ 13:42:11 - [perma-link] I saw this on a video site. The link to it claimed a motorcycle going 300 mph, which would have been pretty remarkable so I had to check it out. Unfortunately it was posted by an idiot who didn't realize that the speedometer is in km/h. Its really "only" doing about 180mph, which is still really fast, but I've seen plenty of 180mph motorcycle videos. The really good stuff is in the comments, from which I snagged this screen-grab of metric confusion. The first thread (pictured) is a riot. A little further on someone's brain misfired on the "300" and alludes that the bike would be exceeding the speed of light (light travels at just under 300 MILLION meters-per-second, or about 671 million mph, several orders of magnitude and a bag of chips more than 300mph). And people wonder why we haven't switched over to the metric system...

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