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[bear66]

Factually incorrect. It travels just over 875 miles in 3mins 39 secs

It travels approximately 1042 miles.

7.66km/s equivalent to 17134 miles per hour.

 

[Laughing]

The lighter predates the friction match by 11 years.

 

[Laughing]

Oh dear me where do we start with this. Desilu productions where the production company used for Star Wars. They didn’t invent teleportation and neither did the creator and producer of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry. Teleportation in literature featured a century before Star Trek and on screen The Fly predates Star Trek

Sub atomic particles have been teleporting since just after the big bang.

 

[Bororeddaz]

It travels approximately 1042 miles.

7.66km/s equivalent to 17134 miles per hour.

I’ll give you that one. I was using the speed of 15500 mph from the NASA website. A bit worrying that NASA can’t perform a basic calculation. The shuttlecock however is urban myth and using some homemade American website is hardly evidence as I could do the same to claim the earth is flat

 

[SmallTown]

The lighter predates the friction match by 11 years.

Stockton on tees reference here. I like it

 

[bear66]

I’ll give you that one. I was using the speed of 15500 mph from the NASA website. A bit worrying that NASA can’t perform a basic calculation. The shuttlecock however is urban myth and using some homemade American website is hardly evidence as I could do the same to claim the earth is flat

New York Times article on the use of left wing goose feathers for Yonex shuttlecocks in Rio Olympics.
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