Thursday, May 14, 2009

World Travels

Usain Bolt in mph:
100m in 9.34 sec (second split of his 200m Bejing WR run)
--100m/9.34s = .062137mi/.0025944hrs = 23.95 mph
alternatively, 10m in .82 sec (the fastest 10m split of his 100m Bejing WR run)
--10m/.82s = .0062137mi/.000227778hrs = 27.28 mph
which he held for only 40 meters.

Hippopotami top out at around 30mph and can hold that speed for a few hundred meters. They are also fiercely territorial, gladly using that or any other excuse available to engage in their favorite past time, being lumbering death machines. Before charging, they're known to open their mouths as wide as possible, yell "I'm the juggernaut bitch!" and deal out copious quantities of wholesale death.

In short, I am never going to sub-Saharan Africa. I have no desire to be utterly destroyed by a belligerent beanie baby.

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