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I think you missed that the whole point of this race was: "did we build a vehicle faster than a horse, yes/no?" Which matters a lot when horses are the fastes
by throw310822 1y ago
I think you missed that the whole point of this race was:
"did we build a vehicle faster than a horse, yes/no?"
Which matters a lot when horses are the fastest land vehicle available. (We're so used to thinking of horses as a quaint and slow mean of transport that maybe we don't realize that for millennia they've been the fastest possible way to get from one place to another.)
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- Swizec 1y ago> "did we build a vehicle faster than a horse, yes/no?" Yeah fair. There's also that famous human vs horse race that happens every few years. So far humans keep winning (because it's long distance)
- dwohnitmok 1y agoIf you're talking about the Man versus Horse Marathon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon) it's the other way around. Overwhelmingly the horses win. Only occasionally does the human.
- Swizec 1y agoI stand corrected. My memory garbled that. Thanks!