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From: mcguire@cs.utexas.edu (Tommy Marcus McGuire)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Live Free, but Quietly, or Die
Date: 16 Apr 1993 11:45:25 -0500
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In article <1qmi34$g2n@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> egreen@east.sun.com writes:
>In article 5049@cvbnetPrime.COM, tjohnson@tazmanian.prime.com (Tod Johnson (617) 275-1800 x2317) writes:
[...]
>>Sure there are horns but my hand is already on the throttle. Should we
>>get into how many feet a bike going 55mph goes in .30 seconds; or
>>how long it would take me to push my horn button??
>
[...]
>
>The answer is 161.33 feet.
>
>---
>Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,
[...]

Try something like 24.2 feet. 

EdGetACalculator



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