How sad is
10-23-15, 06:47 AM
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How sad is
this? I went for ride yesterday and with the wind at my back had trouble catching up with an old farm tractor. The sad part being that he was coming east and I was heading west. Sigh!
10-23-15, 10:23 AM
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... wait... Let me see if I have this right... You, riding west with the wind at your back, are unable to catch up with a farm tractor that is HEADING TOWARD YOU. Is this correct? If not, please elucidate further. If so, what are the circumstances that precluded you from this destined bicycle/farm implement rendezvous?
10-23-15, 06:17 PM
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Well, it's probably like the old physics/math question: If, every 5 seconds, you halve the distance between two objects, how long will it take for them to meet?
10-23-15, 06:36 PM
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If a cyclist is traveling west at 24 kph and an eastbound tractor can plow two hectares per hour, how many Led Zeppelin hit songs weren't ripped off from other musicians?
10-24-15, 09:36 AM
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... wait... Let me see if I have this right... You, riding west with the wind at your back, are unable to catch up with a farm tractor that is HEADING TOWARD YOU. Is this correct? If not, please elucidate further. If so, what are the circumstances that precluded you from this destined bicycle/farm implement rendezvous?
Lest you think that I prevaricate, that old tractor turned down a lane before I got to him. So unlike a politician for example, I didn't tell a complete untruth. More like a journalist, I told only a partial truth.
10-24-15, 09:38 AM
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On long climbs, I'm forever catching a cyclist ahead of me, only to discover it's a mailbox or a road sign.
10-24-15, 06:34 PM
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10-27-15, 08:01 AM
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The tractor was in reverse just to confuse you. I saw a guy with a white reflector on the back of his bike "just to confuse people".
10-27-15, 08:04 AM
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The Schwarzschild metric describes the spacetime of a spherical symmetric point mass (an arbitrary star) in vacuum. With 
(or 
if G=c=1) it is written:
This should explain your problem op
(or if G=c=1) it is written:This should explain your problem op
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Oh heck, just go out and ride....
