Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: fast tires Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:50:15 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <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> <1031rei$3ru8$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:50:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="babbc3c360229af554d8c6f654de1a79"; logging-data="144144"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18uauVU4VvhnSb6ryuGSULrnkLNf/LaSTw=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pjel05HNv7X6RnLI4LcL0eAXqdA= On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:20:34 -0500, AMuzi wrote: >On 6/19/2025 2:57 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote: >> 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. >> >> -- >> 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