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I would expect Michael Phelps to perform differently compared to the sixteen volunteers in that experiment. Michael Phelps has spent his entire life optimising
by hugh3 16y ago
I would expect Michael Phelps to perform differently compared to the sixteen volunteers in that experiment. Michael Phelps has spent his entire life optimising his stroke for maximum speed in water. Give him a different liquid and he'll be sub-optimal.
- jacobolus 16y agoWhy are we speculating about Michael Phelps’s ability to swim through crude oil? It’s utterly irrelevant to understanding how much oil 190 million gallons is, and including the comment in the CNBC "slideshow" was a confusing distraction.
- hugh3 16y agoBecause we're needlessly pedantic, that's why. The internet exists to allow us to have pointless arguments over things that don't matter, for no other reason than that we think another person is saying something which is not entirely true. There's not much point in discussing how much oil 190 million gallons is, either. Personally I'd say it's enough to fill the world's largest supertanker about 1.3 times over, but that doesn't sound very spectacular.