Spoilt BratsMr Newton sighs, "ever known anyone so spoilt you would love to strangle? I lived with a Paris Hilton-a-like who complained about everything, stomped her feet and whinged till she got her way. There was a happy ending though: she had to drop out of uni due to becoming pregnant after a one night stand..."
Who's the spoiltest person you've met? Has karma come to bite them yet? Or did you in fact end up strangling them? Uncle B3ta (and the serious crimes squad) wants to know.
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chthonic, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 14:11)
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It's not so mucha difference in efficiency between 30mph and 20mph- that's probably negligable.
It's between doing 20 and having to slow to 5mph EVERY FREAKING 50 FEET! You can't sit at 5mph or you get honked at- and don't really get anywhere anyway.
Increasing 1 tonne (1000kg) from 5 to 20mph means 20kJ of energy is burnt. Now given a 20% efficiency of engine that means about 100kJ of energy is wasted for every speed bump. So on a 10 speed bump road, each trip of each car wastes 0.02kWh of energy. Think how many cars go down your road, multiply the 0.02 by that number, then double that as they'll come home at the end of the day too. The speed bumps on a long residential street could waste as much energy just in use- never mind extra maintanence etc- as a whole other car doing 20.
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uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 15:47,
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