Powder question

klaus wrote:
lal_truckee wrote:

Combine the two - 160mph on a prepared speed course while wearing a
rubber suit.

I don't think so.

I don't think so either. Isn't terminal velocity of a human in freefall
something around 120mph? How would you go faster than that, unless you
strap a rocket onto your back?

As for the rubber suit, I never would've thought Lal was so kinky.

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klaus wrote in message ...

Heh.. actually, on open road with three lanes, it seems like 100-110
mph is what people cruise at. At 125, you're passing most folks. When
we told my relatives where we were going to ski, since it was a long
way, they didn't ask if we had a comfortable car, or a big car.. they
said.. "My.. that's a long way... Do you have a fast car?" When we
said we had an A8, they said, yes it was fast, but big.... I didn't
realize why that would be an issue until we were cruising through the
Alps in Italy on a 1 1/2 lane road with a huge drop off on our side
when we came face to face with a logging truck. I basically sh*t.

WARNING: Large files! Don't try this on dialup.

Basically putting this car:

http://www.xmission.com/~klaus/DCP_0444.JPG

down this road:

http://www.xmission.com/~klaus/DCP_0443.JPG

The gaurd rail wasn't all that reassuring.

-klaus

My mistake. Guess my brain has turned metric. I thought you wrote 160
*kph*. I'll have to get new glasses. ;-)

Nice car but that second picture doesn't look like the Autobahn.

Armin

klaus wrote:
One thing I noticed while I lived in Germany was that you never see
"minor" accidents on the autobahn. Usually cars and bodies strewn for
a long ways. But you also don't have old people driving slowly in the
left lane. They take care of them pretty quickly. Buddha bless their
souls.

There are still Trabbis though.

I have been a passenger in a car travelling at 125 mph when a Trabbi
in front of us tried to overtake a truck.

Robert Swindells