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Old 05-13-2004, 04:18 PM
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TSpecX,

That's great that you got to meet Robert Byrd. I'd like to have a chance to meet him as well, as I'm tired of the email and forum thing. I think some awesome creations could come out of Rob and a capable technical consultant. I'm a few hundred miles out of the way though.... And about the whole scaling time and semantics thing......I really don't give a damn if someone makes functioning doors for their xmod, opens them, and then acts like their xmod can fly. I was just bringing a little bit of insight to the idea of scaling. Sure, if you break down newtonian physics to the Nth degree, time does have variables, but come on....are we approaching the speed of light here? No. All of that mumbo-jumbo is theory anyway. Theories brought forward by einstein.

I was basically quoting a representative from Tamiya, when the land speed record was established for 1/10th scale R/C cars. The host of the talk show, that they were on, asked the same question, "So how fast is that going in scale speed?", and they said the exact same thing, "You can scale distance, but a second is still a second to any size vehicle.......so you can't scale time" and it's true, no matter how technically inclined a person is. I mean, if you want to get super technical....an orange isn't orange....it's every other color BUT orange being reflected at you....so you are seeing the absence of orange.....ANYWAY!! It's not that I'm a fan of semantics, it's just the way it is, and I'm sure there's people that appreciate knowing.
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