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06/22/10 3:51 AM

#83876 RE: SMaturin #83870

"When covered wagons were the best way to ship goods over land, steam locomotives were newfangled, amazing, expensive, and scary technology. Curmudgeons said, "Why would anybody ever want to go faster than 20 miles an hour?" "


There was actually a school of thought that professed that the soul would leave the body if it were accelerated beyond a certain velocity!

Now we know it's not the velocity, but the sudden change in velocity that kills you. hehehe