[k5wTvu9f]

Do the drivers wear a cup then?

[sportbos]

No, because pinewood derby is all downhill, so a heavier car is better. Gotta keep these light since you have to push them uphill first

[casinobonbiner]

I can show you the drivers...



By the way, if I recall correctly the duct tape is just there to protect the edges of the windscreen from scratches, it gets taken off before the race I think.

[mypharmalife]

You did not build buggies out of carbon fiber and epoxy in cub scouts. Your pinewood cars did not travel at 40 mph. Cub scouts is by definition all-male. This by definition involves girls.

[hablyShappY]

ahahahaha, owned so hard!

so lemme see if I get this straight, you are either building a plastic boat on wheels, or are a pushing it up a steep hill, only for an ungrateful butterface to roll down in it, and to probably get all the glory in the case of winning? While people your age participate in extreme sports, trek around the planet and are generally having a blast?


Pretty cool, kid, pretty cool.

[lollypopz]

She was actually a Waterloo engineering student.

The team was suspended from competition for that photo.

[Pinkman]

They put the girls in the cars since they're too weak to push men.

[Clarissa]

It seems like such a stupid way to do a relay race.

Will you be one of the sprinters pushing the buggy, HC? Otherwise, you're as much an athlete as someone who makes football helmets and stitches baseballs.

[triardwonvada]

Building buggies is substantially more impressive than pushing them, and any pusher will tell you that. Most will refer to themselves disparagingly as "dumb muscle".

However I will probably push a bit as well as mechanicking.

The cool thing about buggy is the design work that goes into those things--it brings together a lot of people from different skill sets and the engineering problem itself is very cool and fun.

[alskdjreyfd]

Building buggies is substantially more impressive than pushing them, and any pusher will tell you that. Most will refer to themselves disparagingly as "dumb muscle".

However I will probably push a bit as well as mechanicking.

The cool thing about buggy is the design work that goes into those things--it brings together a lot of people from different skill sets and the engineering problem itself is very cool and fun.

Some of those guys could probably run a 10.0 100m. That, and the work that goes into that, is far more impressive than building some buggy.

[Aniplinipsync]

Oh wait I'm on Apolyton so my statement will be criticized but it's the ****ing truth. Any monkey can build something. Any student can learn the engineering behind it and improve the design. It takes far far far more to run a 10.0 100m.

The brain is far more malleable than the body is. It takes more man hours and more exertion to get to a 10.0 100m than it does to learn enough undergraduate engineering to build a buggy.

And many people will simply never be capable of running a 10.0 100m, limited by genetics. I would guess a greater percentage of the human population is physically incapable of running a 10.0 100m than are able to learn some undergraduate engineering.

[LasTins]

Can't...stop...laughing...

[Dumpishchaism]

Not to mention the fact that being a relatively talented engineer is likely more valuable than being the hundredth fastest human to ever live.

[amannddo]

Not to mention the fact that being a relatively talented engineer is likely more valuable than being the hundredth fastest human to ever live.

I can think of a million places and circumstances where being faster is more beneficial than being learned in engineering.

[Zesavenue]

No you twit, by including another sig fig you were implying precision. And you calling anybody a "pedant" is pretty funny..

I actually did edit it to 10 100m but that looked funny so I added the .0

My overall point still stands, regardless.

[viagraman]

Yes, when the Revolution comes.

[AdSuiteAdobe]

I actually did edit it to 10 100m but that looked funny so I added the .0

My overall point still stands, regardless.

Q: What does a 23 year-old who runs a 10.4 100m say?
A: would you like fries with that

[AXGreg]

Q: What does a 23 year-old who runs a 10.4 100m say?
A: would you like fries with that

Hey, someone's gotta drive the trucks.

[PIORARMADDERI]

That's not a sport, that's playing silly buggers. Like curling...that's just floor polishing in my book.

[StitsVobsaith]

Always capitalism with you!

The measure of one's labor is not always rightly determined by the market, especially when that labor is not being sold to anyone! It takes a lot of hard-work to get that fast. You should ****ing know.

Who cares how much hard work it took? The value of something is what somebody is willing to pay for it now, not what effort it took to acquire.

Being the hundredth-best halo player of all time takes a lot of work, but is just about as valuable as running a10.4