Originally Posted by
cooker
Hope you slept well. I'm curious what you're trying to accomplish is this thread. Since the OP is talking about downhill bicycling speed where clearly air resistance is a major limiting factor, does repeating some abstract and incomplete statement like "the speed of falling objects is independent of their weight [in a vaccuum]" contribute in any way to the answer to the question? You're a fairly new poster with some helpful contributions in other threads, and not a smart alec teenager - what got you into such a feisty, oppositional mood in this thread?
I had a lovely sleep, thank you. My first post in this thread just stated a physical fact and an 'in spite of' (that physical fact) example. My greatest speed has been downhill with a heavy load. After stating the 'speed/weight' factoid, people countered with beliefs, as you have above in brackets, that were disproven hundreds of years ago. I'm just trying to clarify something, because I can't understand why some people are having so much difficulty wrapping their brains around a simple fact that's irrefutably proven in a vacuum, but applies always. You don't want me to repeat it, do you?
'Feisty' as in 'spirited', certainly, but the one's that are being difficult, are the one's that can't grasp a simple fact and seem to take insult when told they are in error.