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   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2023-12-21 06:22, Wally J wrote:   
   >> Aren't you a mere dilettante at best?   
   > Heh heh heh... like I said, Hemidactylus. I never claimed to be a racer.   
   > But I do claim to have higher education.   
   >   
   > Which means I understand what a catenary is.   
   > And how it applies to racing.   
   >   
   > By contrast, Alan Baker has never heard of a catenary in his entire life.   
      
   Sure I have. It's the curve that a chain or rope makes when it hangs   
   down between two elevated end points.   
      
   > Even after desperately googling it, he still can't figure out what it is.   
      
   I know exactly what it is.   
      
   >   
   > And yet, it's one of the most important racing terms there ever was.   
      
   Nope.   
      
   7 years of teaching   
      
   11 years of racing   
      
   Decades of studying racing and racing cars...   
      
      
   ...and I have never once seen "catenary" used in relation to racing.   
      
   :-)   
      
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