Happens with discount/markups as well. If you have a markup of 10% followed by a discount of 10%, the discount happens on the larger base amount. So, it’s being sold for 1% less than before-markup.

errr...math fail on my part. the 5MPH for the 10 mile “leg” would take 2 hours. but 2:40 is still > 2:00

the problem is people are doing the math as if they are directly averaging rates, which are already quotients themselves. speed (or velocity if you prefer) is distance divided by time. As the distance is fixed for each direction, the divisor/denominator (bottom part) is the variable.

swirling counter-clockwise? cost to lanes 1-4, benefit to 5-8 for the short distances.

great point. but the current-affected lanes could be lanes 1-4 in this example, and lanes 5-8 could be non-current affected and we’re already seeing the variable speed manifest. Or simply the long distances are more a wash because the water is swirling “circularly” in the pool so ALL lanes are current-affected and…

no...he’s not going an average of 10 MPH, because he spends more time going 5MPH than he does 15MPH. Say the race was 20 miles and the swimmers could keep their pace for that long of a distance. The steady 10MPH swimmer would finish in 2 hrs. The 5/15 swimmer would swim the 15MPH phase in less than an hour (40 minutes…

looks like she was inches away from being DQd for a lane violation, but I assume that’s only triggered when a part of the body touches ground over the line, as elbows frequently go over the line.

I was about to whip out speed-of-sound calculations to figure out if different start times could mess things up....but this makes more sense

you’re right...it’s not like the Olympics are in Australia or Sochi this year. It’s in the Americas. #showitlive

You should run the length of a football field, grab some horns, then go for a slower stroll. Outside.

I love me some horny funk. Also, big fan of Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds.

Mary was just the vessel

(meta comment: this periodic resurfacing of old articles on the front page is weird. I received a notification of a reply to a comment on an article I left 4 effing years ago. Also, I had no idea I had been reading deadspin that long:P)

in star trek, hand-held phaser beams appear to travel slower than conventional bullets...

great first article here in the kinjaverse, Larry. As your blog claims to come from the future, it’s amazing that Facebook referenced you personally before you even wrote an article here!

inflation is essentially interest at the prime rate. and vice versa.

“shouldn’t have been secret”

Lazy question (could probably be answered by reading the source article) but how did they observe the collapse, given that due to our orbit being well interior to that of Jupiter, time observing an eclipsed moon is probably on the order of seconds, which is far to fast for the atmosphere to crash out. I suppose if…

It isn’t “varying opaqueness” it’s varying depth. The opacity is consistent per unit depth.

My gums don’t taste very good though. Haven’t figured out how to infuse them directly with mint.