Sort of. It's the understanding that a skier may travel 120MPH, but we understand that he's not going to do it for an hour - both because there isn't a suitable

Sort of. It's the understanding that a skier may travel 120MPH, but we understand that he's not going to do it for an hour - both because there isn't a suitable slope 120 miles long, and because his skis/legs/boots/whatever will self-destruct well before the hour is done. An M16 can fire at a speed of 800 rounds per minute, which it would do IF it didn't literally start melting the barrel in the process (I'm trying to find a recent video where someone actually tried to fire 800 rounds thru an M16 as fast as possible, and the barrel actually burst around 500 rounds).