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'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

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Re: 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

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Post by _carbyau_ »

keybored wrote: post #157
lupusreal wrote: post #154

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Ah shit your right, I had in mind 500 (yard) Free. 500 meters in under five is very good, but still attainable by the upper tier of highschool swimmers I think. I could reliably do 500 yards in under five and was a "B relay" tier on my team.

The almost-meter Yard has got to pack its bags and go home soon. What is it even doing at this point other than causing naked numeral confusion.

My youthful swimming career was done in a 33+1/3rd metre swimming pool. I haven't found another one that length.

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Post by ec109685 »

alliao wrote: post #204

I still am puzzled about the logistics of it, at the very end of the video there's a sharp pointy end towards the user... do the user shove their private parts between the two shafts...

It plugs into a contraption that goes around your waste: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6RVpqLpLjl/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWF...

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Post by _carbyau_ »

LtWorf wrote: post #137
lupusreal wrote: post #129

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Yep, going fast with flippers feels great.

Feels less great for all the people in the pool that you kick.

My major hassle with touches in pools is frog kick. I have zero issues with fins, on me or others.

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arturkesik wrote: post #164
uncertainrhymes wrote: post #35

I swim because I enjoy it, not because I'm trying to get somewhere fast. This seems awkward and I bet you have to use your arms just to counterbalance the twist you'd get on each 'stroke' of the leg. So even though I think it's goofy, I bet I'd like whoever came up with this. Someone who put a ton of effort into building something they thought would be interesting despite a thousand people telling them it's goofy. Go…

I come from family of scuba divers, and the scuba divers are a perfect market for this I think - pretty rich, pretty lazy and have to cover a lot of distance underwater

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Re: 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

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Post by _carbyau_ »

bbarn wrote: post #205
arturkesik wrote: post #164

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I come from family of scuba divers, and the scuba divers are a perfect market for this I think - pretty rich, pretty lazy and have to cover a lot of distance underwater

My wife and I rented the double subnado things last time we were out of town diving. Seems that fits the pretty rich and lazy market much better.

And less exertion means more time underwater.

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Post by zharknado »

_ZeD_ wrote: post #85
yawpitch wrote: post #43

If it’s powered exclusively by a human then whatever the results, they’re not “superhuman”.

with my bike I can easily outrun any 100m dasher on the earth.

Actually you probably can’t, assuming you aren’t a world champion cyclist and you’re starting from a standstill. 100m is too short to capture the advantage unless you’re very, very fast.

See: https://www.outsideonline.com/uncategorized/who-would-win-10...

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Post by lukan »

londons_explore wrote: post #195
freeqaz wrote: post #189

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Toss a battery on it though and what does it look like then? Perhaps you're able to augment a human's ability to traverse longer distances more quickly. That's tech that didn't really exist back then!

And it would probably do a decent job of cutting you or your friends up when human and the propellor come into contact...

The article says they move slow enough to not be dangerous. That could be true even battery powered.

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Post by lukan »

noncoml wrote: post #240
andrewflnr wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? Go into the next HN thread and see how many deeply nested comments you can make sense of by looking only at their parent.

You are not doing HN right if you are only reading the parent

Yeah, you both seem to agree. The larger context matters.
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