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Yes, but it's not my context.
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'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
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Not really. Most serious lap swimmers can do a kilometer every 20 minutes sustainably, akin to a marathon runner's pace (Sprint pace would be 100m/minute, with 50m/minute being what you would see in the fast lane of most recreational pools). So 3.6 kph isn't all that different, maybe a little faster than average but I assume they were also using a better-than-average bicycle person when doing the test. There real adv…
A mid tier marathon runner can do a mile every 20 mins, not a kilometer. It’s a significant difference.
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... which was itself in the context of a device for civilians. To avoid litigating the primacy of nested contexts in a casual conversation, maybe let's agree to not be so picky about which caveats are on topic?
If there is an article about berries and you say you love blueberries and I reply saying “I hate them”, it in the context of blueberries. It doesn’t mean I hate all berries. And I shouldn’t have to clarify that, since I’m replying to a comment about blueberries.
How else could this work?
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
... which was itself in the context of a device for civilians. To avoid litigating the primacy of nested contexts in a casual conversation, maybe let's agree to not be so picky about which caveats are on topic?
A reply is always in the context of the thing that is being replied on. It’s how replies work… If there is an article about berries and you say you love blueberries and I reply saying “I hate them”, it in the context of blueberries. It doesn’t mean I hate all berries. And I shouldn’t have to clarify that, since I’m replying to a comment about blueberries. How else could this work?
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
A reply is always in the context of the thing that is being replied on. It’s how replies work… If there is an article about berries and you say you love blueberries and I reply saying “I hate them”, it in the context of blueberries. It doesn’t mean I hate all berries. And I shouldn’t have to clarify that, since I’m replying to a comment about blueberries. How else could this work?
And everything is always in exactly one easily defined context, right? So for a comment reply we already know the full context just by looking at its immediate parent. That's how nested replies work, right?
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
And everything is always in exactly one easily defined context, right? So for a comment reply we already know the full context just by looking at its immediate parent. That's how nested replies work, right?
Yes..?
Re: 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
#238> French company Seabike They have a .fr domain and a showroom in Cannes, France but the company is headquarted in Italy: PARITET SRL, Via Giovanni da Cermenate 3, 22063 Cantù (CO) Italy Also, the French version of the website is riddled with enormous errors, like "For traveling light" translated as "Pour voyager lumière", which does not make any sense and isn't even grammatically correct (the proper translation woul…
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#239From the looks of the scuba diving video, it looks worse. There's way more leg movement and it looks less controlled (and more likely to damage corals/kick up sand from the bottom) than slow finning.
Given the number of times I've been kicked in the face by another person's fins while scuba diving, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near someone using one of these.