Read the article: (http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/4/035932-4264-127.html)

repost of somesort

i've already seen this in OT i think :o

Still a class one!

Taranaki posted that in OT last week :)

Horses are so damn stupid... sheesh..

drunk racers are for sure to get in a crach and y would u want to even race a drunk driver?!

maybe, if you don't know they're drunk...

some people hide their alcohol very well...

also, someone here in Ohio can be legally drunk on 2 beers, depending on when the breathalyzer is done...

and i'm pretty sure that most of us can function very well on 2 beers. especially if you have a high tolerance...

Originally posted by flylwsi
maybe, if you don't know they're drunk...

some people hide their alcohol very well...

also, someone here in Ohio can be legally drunk on 2 beers, depending on when the breathalyzer is done...

and i'm pretty sure that most of us can function very well on 2 beers. especially if you have a high tolerance...

Reguardless, your reflexes and senses began to be affected after just one drink. Street racing is dangerous enough as it is, no need to double the dangers to yourself and other motorists and pedestrians.

i'm not saying you should do it, but i'm saying that in general, people who are "drunk" may only be so legally...

and you may not know that the other person is...

i'm not condoning it, or saying it's ok, but i'm saying that's not a black/white thing, there's a lot of gray, and the facts are easily skewed to meet the urgency of a story...

i'm simply noting that i could have 2 drinks here in ohio, and 2 hours later still be legally drunk... but i'm certainly "sober" enough to drive 2 hours later...

it's all in how you interpret the data...

that's really all i was saying

but you body processess 1 drink in one hour. if you drank 2 beers, after 2 hours you would be just as sober as b4 you drank them. and 2 beers doesn't do much of anything for most people. but i would NEVER drive under the influence of anything that might impair my judgement or slow my reflexes or fuck with my depth preseption.

although the premise is the same it's just horse racing!!!
hahahhahaha
the fact that the guy would drive while drunk is retarded anyways

who says the amish don't know how to have fun....:bonghitte

nookie,

that's my point, though you may still be "legally" over the acceptable BAC limit in your state.

so you're drunk.

:hehehe: but the point here is...they're amish ahhaha...wonder wut those high powered monsters (they feed the horses well in amish country) would run the 1/4 mile in...

Originally posted by KrNxRaCer00
:hehehe: but the point here is...they're amish ahhaha...wonder wut those high powered monsters (they feed the horses well in amish country) would run the 1/4 mile in...

I tend to use 102 Oc-Grain fuel little to nothing gets wasted but the only downside is they run a little rich sometimes when they have that

not bad for just ONE horsepower... :rolleyes:

I thought that this was going to be about racing streets. Everytime I hear "street race" I always think about somebody racing a street...

Anyway, I think that most horses are underatted, when the formula for calculating horse power was thought up, it's not like they averaged the strength of many horses, they just used a "theoretical horse" and I think that many horses are a good deal stronger than 1Hp.

Originally posted by 2strokebloke
I thought that this was going to be about racing streets. Everytime I hear "street race" I always think about somebody racing a street...

Anyway, I think that most horses are underatted, when the formula for calculating horse power was thought up, it's not like they averaged the strength of many horses, they just used a "theoretical horse" and I think that many horses are a good deal stronger than 1Hp.

... *sigh*... here we go!

Definition of Horsepower


Horsepower is probably the term most used when discussing cars. However, few people can accurately define what exactly horsepower is. Horsepower is officially defined as "the amount of energy required to lift 550 pounds, one foot, in one second." But what does this mean? To answer that question, we need to know a little history.

The term horsepower was created by James Watt, an engineer famous for his work with steam engines and is most associated with his measure of electric power (i.e. 60 watt light bulb). Around 1775, Watt wanted to create a standard measure of work to compare the output of his steam engines with the horses that were used to move large loads in mines. Watt studied the amount of work that horses did and found that on average, a mine horse could perform 22,000 foot-pounds of work in a minute (for example, move 1,000 lbs 22 feet in one minute or 500 pounds 44 feet in one minute). He then increased the number by 50 percent and came up with a measurement of 33,000 foot-pounds of work in one minute. This measurement eventually became known as horsepower.

Using various physics equations, you can come up with different interpretations of horsepower:

1 horsepower is equivalent to 746 watts. So if you took a 1-horsepower horse and put it on a treadmill, it could operate a generator producing a continuous 746 watts.

1 horsepower (over the course of an hour) is equivalent to 2,545 BTU (British thermal units). If you took that 746 watts and ran it through an electric heater for an hour, it would produce 2,545 BTU (where a BTU is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1 degree F).

1 BTU is equal to 1,055 joules, or 252 gram-calories or 0.252 food Calories. Presumably, a horse producing 1 horsepower would burn 641 Calories in one hour if it were 100-percent efficient.

u learn something new every day...:D

i given up on horsepower and i'm using Ps instead

but can someone do me a favour and explain the theory behind ps? and what Ps stands for cuz i can't find it in my Advanced Physics book and i can't wait till monday to ask my Physics lecturer

"the amount of energy required to lift 550 pounds, one foot, in one second." - with one pulley.

Like I said, the horse power measurment is theoretical, and certainly there are horses stonger than this.

Originally posted by 2strokebloke
"the amount of energy required to lift 550 pounds, one foot, in one second." - with one pulley.

Like I said, the horse power measurment is theoretical, and certainly there are horses stonger than this.


I'll highlight the part that says its not theoretical.. but factual.

"Watt studied the amount of work that horses did and found that on average, a mine horse could perform 22,000 foot-pounds of work in a minute (for example, move 1,000 lbs 22 feet in one minute or 500 pounds 44 feet in one minute). He then increased the number by 50 percent and came up with a measurement of 33,000 foot-pounds of work in one minute. This measurement eventually became known as horsepower."

He found on average the horses could pull that amount of weight. Yes of course horses can pull more... cause its an Average. And obviously with strong horses, you're going to have piddly weak horses as well.