Reply to post: Re: Cool, but why?

The UK's super duper 1,000mph car is being tested in Cornwall

Adam 1

Re: Cool, but why?

> 1000MPH is a ridiculous arbitrary number. If this were ancient Egypt, we’d claim an arbitrary number of cubits, elsewhere leagues, in civilization kilometers, etc... 1000MPH is of no particular scientific or engineering significance.

You must be fun at parties.

I'll grant you that many cultures throughout history would have no concept of how fast 1000MPH is, but it is easy enough to convert it to the globally and time understood 0.0149% of the maximum velocity of a sheep in a vacuum.

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