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Cyclist Uses Aerodynamics Over Leg Strength
When I rode 30+ miles a day, almost 30 years ago, I used to do something similar on downhills. I wouldn't take the toe clips off, but I would hang my ass over the rear wheel with the seat in my gut. This flattened my body and made me more aerodynamic (but not nearly as much as he is) and put my weight farther back and lower, meaning I could brake much harder without going over the front. His center of gravity probably goes higher in this position with his legs that high. Since my feet never left the pedals, I could still pedal if needed and get back upright in an instant.
I never raced, so I don't know if this would have been against any specific rules, but taking your feet off the pedals that way would make you far less stable, imagine if he had to brake or swerve, and reattaching at speed is no walk in the park either, so it's probably considered a likely hazard to others and banned...but that is just a guess.
do you know the rationale with banning? Potential danger to other riders? It's interesting to me that it would be banned. Kind of like the first guy that went over backwards on the high jump, it seems like a legit innovation.
Monster Truck Front Flip
That's right, keep taunting gravity like that and eventually gravity will decide it's had enough of your silliness.
When It's Just The Dudes At Home
The Anti-Gravity Lean got me.
Pretty much kept a straight face up until the Moonwalk, then I lost it.
New Rule: Stop Apologizing
As a far-left Liberal, I 100% agree with Bill on this point. I understand the underlying idea behind PC -- that all people deserve respect and shouldn't be singled out for ridicule for things they can't help -- but the execution of this idea has been a disaster.
Nobody likes it when someone shouts out, "I'm a victim!" when they're obviously not. It demeans real victims, lessens the gravity of the word and concept of "victim", and makes the person calling themselves a victim not so much that term as the term "Cry-baby". Thus it makes all the people in the class (Liberals) generally associated with that group (whiners) look like specials snowflakes pleading for special, and unearned, treatment.
So if identifying new species of victim-hood is going to be your principle reason for existing, then you'd better expect to lose and lose often.
The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves
I thought you could easily watch gravity waves by looking at the ocean tides.
How 'Rogue One's' Princess Leia, Grand Moff Tarkin Were Crea
Y'know, the first thing the new Tarkin brought to mind was LA Noire. To be honest, I think LA Noire did the whole face-scanning thing much better. Now, they had an easier job to do, where the whole game is already CG so perhaps the faces don't stand out as much, but it does feel like they did a better job.
I actually think they tried to control Tarkin's face a little bit too much. I think there will perhaps be a 'realization' in the industry that adding a host of very subtle random fluctuations to a face will make it seem more real.
I found the discussion about lips sticking together to be fascinating, and that's certainly headed in the right direction. There's probably something about gravity being applied to faces that make them seem realer, too. Like that they subtly jiggle and bounce as they move and that at a miniscule level the skeleton of the skull moves first to push the musculature and skin of the face around second. Those kinds of subtle movements are probably what could make this kind of thing realer.
2CELLOS - The Show Must Go On
I was thinking more people would have been floating up from the gravity of the other planet or whatever it was. Need to get Neil deGrasse Tyson on this one.
Dad tries to learn daughter's gymnastics moves
Very impressive considering differences in centre of gravity and weight distribution.
Youngest Female Monster Truck Driver Builds Her Own Rides
Monster trucks are awesome!
I get lowering the centre of gravity, but wouldn't that also affect the clearance?
I dare you not to find this mind-blowing!
Was there a message intended?....because what I got was 'A woman can do amazing things if she has a strong man to support and guide her, but without him she'll just stumble along until gravity overtakes her and brings her down.' ....I have a history of misunderstanding, though, so perhaps I'm taking it wrong.
Ultra Spiritual Life - Flat Earth Theory
I'm not joking. I've gotten into heated debates on multiple occasions with people on Google+ who honestly believe there is no way the Earth is not flat. At first, I couldn't believe they weren't fucking with me, but they were SERIOUS. Terrifyingly so.
You go and look at their other posts, and there are whole communities filled with certifiably crazy people talking about some seriously demented theories. NASA photos from ISS are simulated; the round earth theory is a sophisticated psy-op meant to enslave our minds; the entire universe is flat, rotates around the Earth, and gravity is somehow a lie, and every photo and video showing a round Earth is a fake.
These people are breeding, dude. In 2016. I'm terrified.
I was hoping it was a troll-meme, because i've seen a prevalence of people believing this shit lately.
Ask them how a sundial works. It's one of those things that's simple to think about or even draw. Get them to tell you how the sun rises and sets, and then ask about sundials - and why do 2 sundials separated by a significant distance read how they do.
If you make them 1000 ft tall sundials, you can use the horizon line of sight argument on them too.
Roach adhesive versus scientist, sprinter & Sumo wrestler
I like how the glue apparently also increases gravity, so even the non-sticky parts of people get dragged down.
Things You Might Not Know: Glaciers Don't Go Backwards
A glacier is basically a slow moving frozen river. Of course it can't flow backwards. Gravity continues to work even below the freezing point.
Are You Ready To Be Outpaced By Machines? Quantum Computing
When someone says something like "we're exploiting parallel universes", what they mean is that one of the many theories that can be used to describe quantum behaviour such as entanglement is to do with parallel universes.
That doesn't mean there aren't other theories, it doesn't mean there are parallel universes, it's just one of the few ways we can make it make sense is if it exists and carries information in a dimension that is not tangible to us.
When Archimedes invented his screw, using gravity to drive water uphill, he could have said that he's using an invisible multi-dimensional goblin to move the water; well that's one theory and its irrefutable until Newton makes an appearance. And even then you can still say "yeah but what we know of gravity is still a multidimensional goblin."
Having said that, it has as much likelihood of being correct as any other theory in its infancy.
Is Most Published Research Wrong?
"As flawed as our science may be, it is far and away more reliable than any other way of 'knowing' that we have."
I'm going to be polite and assume you have narcolepsy and just happen to fall asleep during the bits that challenge your own viewpoint.
The theory about global warming may yet prove to be untrue - that i cannot deny; some other as yet unknown factor may be found. But the likelihood that thousands of scientists have p-hacked and fudged their way to a false positive in this case is more like 10 sigma.
In the past I have always told you - do not listen to 'a' scientist because one scientist could be a liar. Listen to many, many scientists.
Global warming isn't a pop-science article one small group put together, nor is this video the only argument you need to deny the theories of gravity, relativity or the spherical earth. Perhaps the tinfoil hat was rustling during the important final part of the video but if the alternative method of deduction is 'some crap bob heard on youtube' then I think i'll take my chances with the scientists.
Well that pretty much makes the global warming myth just that a myth.