80miles @80mph

All I can say is wow :o

A superiority complex...

Please tell me that was faked.....so sad.

Technically..... it is anywhere between 1hour and infinity

If you want to get really complicated... in a straight line, that is 80 miles long, traveling 80mph will yield 1 hour travel time.... however if, for example, you go the other way around the planet, to a point 80 miles away from the original start.... you have taken WAY longer than 1 hour to travel 80 miles, going 80mph.... ya follow?

lol im bored here ya go:
So you start on the equator... and want to know how long it will take you to travel 80 miles west of your start point (lets call it A).. but you being a crazy kiter, say "hell lets go east... just to mess with the blond girls!!"

So the circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,901.55 miles... minus the 80 miles to your destination (B!) is 24,821.55... traveling at 80mph in a straight line, east (not accounting for elevation change) would take 310.26 hours to travel 80 miles to your destination, A :D (or just shy of 13 days... if we dont hafta stop for bathroom breaks )



OR!!!!!




You have a freaking rocket!! (you rule) that only goes 80mph (Damnit) ... (Disregard Earth's gravitational pull for this one....) theoretically you could blast off, with the intent of landing at your destination 80 miles away... BUT NOOOOO!!! you just go up and out, hoping to hit a wormhole that happens to deposit you at exactly 80 miles away from your start point... it is this "example" where it could take an infinite amount of time to reach a destination 80 miles away... while traveling 80mph :D






Read that to her and see what happens.... if "kph" would pop her head, my post could take out her family tree

Damn....here I just thought that the video was kinda funny. Never considered a rocket.

Drew- Love it

OK Drew- you've got the creative juices flowing...

So we have to measure our speed relative to something right? If you're airborne you're instruments will display your "air speed" (speed relative to the air you are moving through). So let's say you're in an ultralight craft traveling due West at 80mph airspeed; but with a 15mph headwind :evil:

Now you're VMG (Velocity Made Good) relative to the ground is only 65mph, which means it would take you roughly 1hr14minutes :D

I can see her reaction to that! "Don't you know anything? It would get there faster! Everyone knows planes fly faster than cars!!"

Nice mike! A little more reasonable than mine... But the 1hour to infinity still stands... Unless.... Ok ok... Throw the one hour thing out the window

If we follow the whole rocket wormhole thing... Then the theory of blackhole manipulation isnt to far off... You could create a wormhole at point A and one at point B (80 miles apart), bend space time until the points are one, then simply release the points and unfold space time... you now traveled 80 miles instantly... So to travel from A to B, 80 miles apart, going 80 miles an hour could take "0" time, to infinite time... (See "Event Horizon" they explain it pretty well with a piece of paper)




Omg! On some level, if my theory is correct.... I just proved the blond correct!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Drew- nice revision! Yes, warping space through a 4th dimension could produce instantaneous travel!

...how 'bout this?


According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity time slows down for a traveler relative to the time experienced by the people here on Earth (stationary in our frame of reference).

So let's say you need to meet some friends at a point 80miles away at 1PM, and it's currently 12PM. To make it interesting, let's say that instead of driving directly there you hop into a borrowed alien spaceship.

The plan is to fly there at a constant rate of 80mph, arriving exactly 1hr later. BUT upon entering the ship you accidentally brush up against the "Ludicrous Speed" button, and are launched into space travelling at .9 times the speed of light.

After the initial shock of leaving Earth behind :puzzled: you eventually get your bearings and turn around to head back to the blue marble and your rendezvous point. To your delight you managed to turn around and start heading back exactly 40 minutes into your trip, so you're figuring no one will even know you messed up, since you'll still make your initial ETA of 1PM.

After another 40 minutes has elapsed you arrive right on schedule at your intended destination, but there's a problem- your friends have all left! You check your watch and it reads 1PM on the nose- but then you look up at a nearby clock tower and it reads 2:17PM. (at .9 the speed of light time is dilated by a factor of roughly 2.29 for the traveler)

So that's 80 miles, at 167,400 miles per second, in just over 2 1/4 hours! :bigok:

But this might be off a little depending on the air in the tires

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Originally posted by bobalooie57 I can see her reaction to that! "Don't you know anything? It would get there faster! Everyone knows planes fly faster than cars!!"

LOL :tumble:

I reject that argument mike!

You have to be traveling at 80mph... Not .9 lightspeed :D

Lmao!!

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Originally posted by Drewculous I reject that argument mike! You have to be traveling at 80mph... Not .9 lightspeed :D Lmao!!

but I traveled 80miles in 1hr (on my watch), so that is 80 MPH! :puzzled: ;-)

i vowed never to whack anything in public forums!! So i respectfully refuse bobby's offer... and mike i will agree depending on how broke your watch is, will determine a relative speed

somehow going .9 lightspeed and 80mph at the same time is a new one to me.....



who knew such a void of intelligence, would spur such (dare i say) deep and abstract thought... lol!

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Originally posted by Drewculous somehow going .9 lightspeed and 80mph at the same time is a new one to me.....

Well you know, it's all relative ;-)

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Originally posted by Drewculous who knew such a void of intelligence, would spur such (dare i say) deep and abstract thought... lol!

agreed- I've enjoyed this tremendously :singing:

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Originally posted by bobalooie57 I can see her reaction to that! "Don't you know anything? It would get there faster! Everyone knows planes fly faster than cars!!"

That is just what she would say....priceless!!!!

Courtesy of Steven Wright:

OK OK- the guys in my office and I haven't been able to stop playing this video and laughing so hard that we cry since this thread started. We've taken to saying "Just whack it in half" to just about any problem/situation who's solution is not immediately obvious, and we've now spawned a game whereby we are going to come up with tricky questions to ask each other and film ourselves trying to answer.

Today we had the first question- asked to me, and although no video on this one I have to say I muttered 1 or two stupid things before getting the right answer :puzzled:

So for all of you who feel smug watching poor Chel work out that problem- give this one a try. The rules are simple- no paper, and no help.


If you are going 80mph, how long would it take you to travel 1 mile?

I think the simple answer, Mike, would be a wild a$$ guess at 40 seconds, how'd I come up with that? I whacked it in half!
But the real answer of course is 45 seconds.

nice Bob! :bigok:

and a wonderful illustration of just how effective "whacking it in half" can be when you're pressed for time

I have to say- as much grief as we're giving Chelsea (all well deserved by the way), at least she was trying. Most of the kids I have in class would just give up and say "I dunno."

For all of her bizarre conclusions and confusions at least this girl was working the problem... I just wish they had captured the part where she arrived at 400 rev/mile for the tires- that was probably awesome