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To: Alas Babylon!

You bring back memories of sliding across the junior high school football field for several hundred feet just doesn’t get any better ways to get going around 40 miles an hour turn the wheel all the way around and just slide


112 posted on 04/21/2019 6:46:19 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Maga: USA supports Trump. Home of the Free because of the brave.)
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To: rodguy911
"sliding across the junior high school football field for several hundred feet just doesn’t get any better ways to get going around 40 miles an hour turn the wheel all the way around and just slide"

Actually, it DOES get better on a frozen lake - if the lake is big enough. From experience, a Ford Falcon has a limiting speed of about 80 on ice. That's when the aerodynamic force equals the tire friction force, and the tires just spin if you try to go faster. But....if you're on a sled on a long rope behind the car, and the car spins out when it reaches 80, the sled goes much faster. You literally will slide for miles. You don't want to hit anything, though.

299 posted on 04/21/2019 5:29:05 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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