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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Radey Shouman Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: fast tires Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:27:01 -0400 Organization: None of the above Lines: 41 Message-ID: <87cyaza356.fsf@mothra.hsd1.ma.comcast.net> References: <102hega$3gh36$1@dont-email.me> <87y0trega6.fsf@mothra.hsd1.ma.comcast.net> <102qn1c$2495c$10@dont-email.me> <8734by47tk.fsf@mothra.hsd1.ma.comcast.net> <102smlf$2koi8$2@dont-email.me> <87msa5gk1j.fsf@mothra.hsd1.ma.comcast.net> <102ulf8$35v0c$2@dont-email.me> <102ur8h$37k89$7@dont-email.me> <87msa3ioel.fsf@mothra.hsd1.ma.comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:27:02 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f4873be634f3e7f1a146394825399213"; logging-data="128641"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/3KTHfBLlmfuzzaoFWq4AgFjk+jwngG+Y=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:P8ey3AAbROdC9vqPxnxnwqWn/3A= sha1:pXuvrFRn+Mp4P5NmJ52wJN39Y1g= Catrike Ryder writes: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:48:26 -0700, Jeff Liebermann > wrote: > >>On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:46:09 -0400, Catrike Ryder >> wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:20:34 -0400, Radey Shouman >>> wrote: >>> >>>>Catrike Ryder writes: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:58:56 -0400, Frank Krygowski >>>>> 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. If only you knew how force, mass, and acceleration worked you could also write out an explanation similar to that of Prof. Krygowski. --