Remember the mayhem when the DC sniper was loose? He was only 200m away from his targets, and firing a loud gun. Imagine how much easier it would be to kill if all you had to do was upload a target profile and press a button to release some drones a mile away? And quite a bit harder to solve as well.

Ok, so every video I've watched on this still seems to take the view that both laps are the same distance. If that's the case then it's impossible (T2 = 0, etc).

But a lap is just a revolution of the track, you don't have to run at a fixed radius (and therefore a fixed circumference).

If you increase the distance (even by a tiny amount), it is possible.
If the 1st lap is 100m and you run it in 100s, then you get 1m/s. If the second lap is 200m, then you would need to run that in 50s (V1 = 1m/s, Vavg = 2m/s, 300m @ 2m/s = 150s, 150s - 100s (for the lap you've already run).

So if you double the distance, you need to run 4 times faster.
If you triple the distance, you need to run 3 times faster.
If you run 10 times the distance, you need to run 2.2222m/s

Basically the bigger your lap the slower you can go approaching 2m/s.

Conversely, the smaller the difference the faster you need to go (e.g. for 101m, you would need to do the 2nd lap at 202m/s or around 450mph )

Oh, and the bike CAN go forwards, you just need a ridiculously low gear.

Are you sure about that? Let's say the track is 100m for simplicity's sake and you run it at 1m/s (so 100s).
If you ran the second loop 3 times faster, you run it at 3m/s and it would take 33.3s.
So, total time and distance is 200m in 133.3s at an average speed of 1.5m/s.

I think it's impossible.

Even if you ran the second loop 100000 times faster, your total time would be 100.001s and average speed would be 1.99998m/s.

It would only ever approach 2V1.

Unless there's something about rotational velocity (as opposed to speed) that I'm missing. Quite possible, given it's been a long time since I did any physics.

I'm pretty sure the person that pulled out did look to his left before pulling out. He is about 20-30 metres from the junction and has completed the turn, this probably took a few seconds to complete the turn from stationary or near stationary and get away from the junction. The Ferrari driver looks to have covered somewhere between 100-200m of distance in this time.

The first sign the Ferrari driver passed was a warning sign of an awkward junction coming up ahead on his right so he should slow down. There are other warning signs and a speed limit clearly posted that he is in excess of.

He may be a talented car handler, but he's a poor (and dangerous) driver.

Heh, i live in Kokkola.. We are the neighboring town for Jakobstad and that's where Sara comes from She lived here for couple of years doing music studies.

Kokko is also an old word for an eagle and while Kokkola is understood now as "place for bonfires", it actually comes "place for eagles" as legend says that eagles liked to rest on the rock in the bay. "City that rose from the sea" is is accurate description as around 1200s there were only the exact hill i live on and one other places above the water.. In fact, there is still an old smugglers tunnel, less than 50m away from where i sit right now that leads to the old shoreline, maybe 200m long that was used in 1600s. The sea itself is now about 3-4km from here.

The good news is, i could sit here for a hundred years without fearing rising sea waters.. Not that i intend to but i could.

Not that incredible, Zuckerburg was a billionaire at that point. Jobs had over $200M, at a time that in today's dollars would be close to $1B. Lots of people throw their money behind their children so they can achieve stuff instead of earning it themselves.

There's tons of people on the planet who have "money to burn". As well, if he's proven he's good at poker elsewhere, he could have financial backers as well.

> block the signal unless 5 to 9 photons arrive within less than 100 ms

This is true. My own system (as new) was 8 photons at 80ms. I installed the tweaking kit from NewEye and have been running around set to 3 photons and 200ms lately and.. it's a trip. Anything beyond the Selsky border of 3 photons and 150ms will show you aura (around healthy people anyway) so I am seeing aura almost every time at 3/200. I have to scale back when driving.

>> ^SwimWithSharks:

the drafting comes into play when people are actually pushing the 200m, the positional jockeying is part of the overall strategy for the race, just like running the clock down to prevent your opponent from responding is in others. Once the "race" portion of the race starts in the final half lap there is definitely no looking back and people are definitely pedaling as hard as possible.
You might prefer to watch "individual pursuit" if you just want the racing without the strategy, in that format the riders start on opposite sides of the track and who goes fastest overall wins, there is no jockeying for position since you're never going to get close enough to each other to draft or influence each other's race in any way.
>> ^possom:
There is no drafting effect in play when moving this slowly and at some points STOPPED.



I second watching Pursuit, love that. Pity they got rid of the 1km pursuit in the Olympics. I recall Chris Hoy's run a few Olympics ago being incredibly thrilling.

I still don't get this event though. You'd think with any kind of distance event it would evolve so people maintained an optimum pace until they felt the need to sprint.

the drafting comes into play when people are actually pushing the 200m, the positional jockeying is part of the overall strategy for the race, just like running the clock down to prevent your opponent from responding is in others. Once the "race" portion of the race starts in the final half lap there is definitely no looking back and people are definitely pedaling as hard as possible.

You might prefer to watch "individual pursuit" if you just want the racing without the strategy, in that format the riders start on opposite sides of the track and who goes fastest overall wins, there is no jockeying for position since you're never going to get close enough to each other to draft or influence each other's race in any way.

>> ^possom:

There is no drafting effect in play when moving this slowly and at some points STOPPED.

Basically, the steel rolling process starts with a huge slab of steel about 20-30 feet long, which is heated up to a few hundred degrees in a giant oven. Once it exits the oven it's sent on a conveyor through a series of rollers with smaller and smaller gaps between them, going from around 200mm tall to 2mm tall, o More..ver a distance of a few kilometers. As a side effect from this, the slab gets extremely long (larger plants can end up with sheets over 200m long), and moves extremely quickly.

The reason it has to move so quickly is that the compression elongates it, so the exiting material has to be moving faster than the entering material, or you'll get a nasty 400 degree, 20 ton traffic jam.

The conveyor it travels on is essentially a series of rollers spaced around 1-2 feet apart, and when it's rocketing along like in the video, the leading end will bounce slightly as it hits each roller. On very rare occasions that leading end will bounce high enough to catch on something, or even curl over of its own accord, causing what you see in the video, where it looks like the sheet has hit the front end of the roller.

>> ^residue:

ok, how about the beach. some weirdo is filming your wife's crotch at the beach. I don't care how hard you try to defend it, she doesn't want her crotch filmed, she's not there to get her crotch filmed and it's rude
or to keep things simple what if that was your daughter doing the photo shoot and you were standing there. I really bet you would see that guy filming and think "yup, that's fine with me"
>> ^jwray:
>> ^residue:
Actually, all the people defending the cameramen are hypocrites for different reasons. I guarantee that if some asshat started trying to film up your girlfriend's/wife's/daughter's dress you would not be defending his right to do so.
The argument of "well if she's going to wear that in public she deserves it" falls apart pretty quick when it turns personal. The people offended in this video are just good enough people that they have genuine concern over strangers.
>> ^JiggaJonson:
Everyone one of you shouting "Hear hear," to those calling the guy filming a pervert, are wading around in a pool of hypocrisy.
If you saw this girl stretching out on a street corner in short shorts you know you'd look and "Her artistic abilities as a ballerina," would not be what you were thinking about.
Either it's not ok for him to be filming her crotch in public AND it's not ok for her to be spreading her legs for long periods of time on a street corner in public -=OR=- the opposite is true.


Upskirt is completely different from filming what everyone else in times square can see.



They've just gotta be more covert about it. It only causes harm if somebody realizes they're doing it and gets all distressed about it. If he was filming from 200M away with a telephoto lens I probably wouldn't notice.

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Usain Bolt does it again: 200m World Record, 19.19s!. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

>> ^Fade:

I love how divisive onlive is. You get 3 types of comments on it.
AWESOME SAUCE
I'm not sure but it could rock
and
TOTAL BULLSHIT, IMPOSSIBLE.
Just remember 5 years ago nobody thought cloud computing had any hope...look where we are now

OnLive is set to launch now, though. They can't wait another 5 years for everyone to have fiber optics to the home in order to provide a reasonable input lag for everyone. 50ms-200ms client<-->server lag can be playable in some games if they use good prediction but it's entirely different when it takes that long for the game to even know you pressed a button.

I also recently discovered that you will be required to pay a subscription to the service and still pay full price for the individual games. That greatly lowers their value, IMO.

I'm going to have to call *lies
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3111547.ece
bottom of article:
- The largest firework is thought to be the Universe I Part II, used in a festival in Japan in 1988. The 1,543lb (700kg) shell burst to a diameter of 3,937 feet (1,200m)

However "This was not an aerial shell but a shell that was placed on a floating platform and ignited"
http://www.pyro-pages.com/Info/records.htm

$100-200m is just a fraction of the bank and auto industry bailouts.

Such a shame.