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Rick Cavallaro[_2_] Rick Cavallaro[_2_] is offline
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Default OT Here is an example of pseudo science.

On Oct 5, 3:37*am, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

When I test drove a jaguar, I did a full emergency stop from 130mph.
Took nearly a mile.


I'm still stunned by this statement. Your full emergency stop seems
to have been about 0.1G

Aero drag would probably put you in that ballpark from 130 down to 100
mph without touching the brakes.