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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: fast tires
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:50:15 -0400
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:20:34 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 6/19/2025 2:57 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:48:26 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:46:09 -0400, Catrike Ryder
>>> <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:20:34 -0400, Radey Shouman
>>>> <shouman@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:58:56 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> (...)
>>>>>>> IOW if you turn an object loose with only its weight acting on its mass,
>>>>>>> it accelerates downward at one "gee."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Count me unimpressed by Krygowski's cut and paste.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm reasonably sure that was written extemporaneously.  Any engineering
>>>>> professor should be able to do the same.  Any practicing engineer will
>>>>> have gone through the same reasoning many times.
>>>>
>>>> I'm reasonably sure he copied out of a book.
>>>
>>> To impress you, must one now memorize all the proofs and calculations?
>>> That seems a bit excessive.  Do you memorize everything?  I don't,
>>> mostly because my memory is not as good as when I was young.
>>> Secondarily, because I don't like distributing potentially wrong
>>> proofs and calculations.  If you have memorized everything, I too
>>> would be very impressed.
>> 
>> I don't learn things by rote, I learn by knowing how things work.
>> 
>> --
>> C'est bon
>> Soloman
>
>Both can be true, and usually are.
>
>Without a grounding in principle, the things you observe 
>(for technical problems) have no meaning.

I have a good memory and I can recite stuff I learned many years ago,
but analyzing that stuff to know what it means is another thing.

Hint: A few romantic lines from Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" or the first
few lines from the Cantebury Tales are pretty good for convincing a
fair young maiden to have another glass of wine.  I've had more than
one fair lady (including my wife) look at me in awe when I expained it
was Chaucer. Of course you have to do it in old english.

--
C'est bon
Soloman