XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.system   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2023-12-22 08:58, Wally J wrote:   
   > badgolferman  wrote   
   >   
   >>> There isn't anyone intelligent in racing circuits who doesn't know the   
   >>> significance of the catenary in terms of teaching basic racing skills.   
   >>   
   >> I▌ not a racer, but I would guess it has something to do with calculating   
   >> how to enter and exit a curve. As a motorcycle rider there are some very   
   >> fine points of curve management one must learn to handle their bike safely.   
   >   
   > Hi badgolferman,   
   >   
   > Exactly. This is why I've never considered you (or Ant or Steve, et al.) an   
   > iKook but why _everyone_ knows that Alan Baker, for one, is an iKook.   
   >   
   > You have the cognitive ability to comprehend that physical forces are the   
   > same in all directions, particularly the forces that suspend a bridge are   
   > the same forces that act upon a motorcycle navigating a curve at speed.   
   >   
   > As an aside (owning a K1200 myself as I believe you have a Gold Wing), it   
   > mostly applies in racing circuits (as the real world has opposing traffic).   
   >   
   > The point of bringing up the catenary or the metric tensor or Christoffel   
   > symbols or even Dunning Kruger effects isn't so much what they are - but   
   > that the iKooks are ignorant of them and yet they form strong opinions.   
      
   The point of YOU bring up any of those is to deflect from actual facts.   
      
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