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Old Apr 27, 2012 | 03:09 PM
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Old Apr 27, 2012 | 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by FNGonaRK
Wrong. Everyone know Sheldon and Penny never banged.
Maybe not in your world, but it's a strange place in mine!!!

Bazinga!!!


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Old Apr 27, 2012 | 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Iceman24
Black makes you "cool" and we all know a cooler ride runs faster...just ask "the Fonz."
I agree with Iceman. You are naturally more relaxed on a black.

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Old Apr 27, 2012 | 06:08 PM
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Black is faster because people with any color on their bike will stop to look at it and have to slow down to show it off......the black bikes are just moving along and have no need to slow down.
 
Old Apr 27, 2012 | 06:29 PM
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Baka1069 is correct in a way and so is the quantum theory. Black like a black hole sic< draws atomic particles and energy into it's core>, you have to think outside the box. The three other parallels that the rider is riding in are even faster since they are already there or never even got there.
 
Old Apr 27, 2012 | 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by blackchipjim
Baka1069 is correct in a way and so is the quantum theory. Black like a black hole sic< draws atomic particles and energy into it's core>, you have to think outside the box. The three other parallels that the rider is riding in are even faster since they are already there or never even got there.
The faster you go the perception of time slows down. That's a fact. They've proven with atomic clocks that during space travel time slows. In theory, when traveling at the speed of light time stops. Or the perception of time does. Again, in theory, at the speed of light, one could travel across the Galaxy or across the Universe and no time would elapse. That would be the perception of the traveler. While on Earth, millions or even billions of years would have gone by. Supposedly in a black hole time and space fold in on each other. I'm not sure if that means time and space don't exist or if time and space are one in the same.
 
Old Apr 27, 2012 | 08:17 PM
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something about an extra bone in the leg?
 
Old Apr 27, 2012 | 08:51 PM
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Originally Posted by baka1969
The faster you go the perception of time slows down. That's a fact. They've proven with atomic clocks that during space travel time slows. In theory, when traveling at the speed of light time stops. Or the perception of time does. Again, in theory, at the speed of light, one could travel across the Galaxy or across the Universe and no time would elapse. That would be the perception of the traveler. While on Earth, millions or even billions of years would have gone by. Supposedly in a black hole time and space fold in on each other. I'm not sure if that means time and space don't exist or if time and space are one in the same.
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black bikes are faster because people who own them say they are. got a problem with that?
 
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