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How Far Can You Get From McDonald's?

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Re: How Far Can You Get From McDonald's?

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

commandar wrote: post #68
wisty wrote: post #46

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Most Americans have no taste-buds. They don't eat lamb, and prefer grain-fed beef (which tastes like slightly gamey chicken) to grass-fed beef (which has a much more ... beefy ... flavor). And don't even think of offering them kangaroo. On the other hand, I'm sure there's some Minnesotan here, who'll tell me I'm a wimp for not eating gopher. Regional US food rocks, but generic "US food" is just bland.

>They don't eat lamb, and prefer grain-fed beef That really has as much to do with cost as anything. Grass-fed beef can be twice the price of grain-fed, and lamb's definitely not cheap, either.

[shrug] depends on where you are. I have an ad somewhere for a local farm (Minnesota) selling grass fed beef for under $3 lb if you buy 1/4 animal or more.

No way the corn-fed supermarket stuff can touch that price!

Re: How Far Can You Get From McDonald's?

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

steve-howard wrote: post #109
nawariata wrote: post #24

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Don't expect high energy when you munch on McDonalds, look into what proper nutrition can do for your body and mind.

My energy level problems stem from something else, because I've not had any of it since I was 12. Still trying to find the cause.

Maybe it's your diet.

Re: How Far Can You Get From McDonald's?

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Post by tzs »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #110
eftpotrm wrote: post #99

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Apollo 13 holds the record for furthest men have been from the earth. If we're looking for the furthest any inividual has been away from the nearest second human, we're looking at command module pilots. I think that record goes to Michael Collins, from memory. Furthest from nearest humans on the earth's surface is probably unknowable; my bet would be on a liferaft somewhere in either the Pacific or Southern oceans ab…

Are you sure? I didn't think lunar orbit was more than a few hundred miles. People who cross oceans solo are much farther away from others than that.

Yes, the lunar orbit of the command module was not far about the lunar surface. That means that when the command module was in the part of its orbit that passed near the part of the Moon where the lander was, the pilot was not far from other people.

However, half an orbit later, he'd be all the way on the other side of the Moon from the nearest people. That's considerably more than a few hundred miles.

Re: How Far Can You Get From McDonald's?

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Post by steve-howard »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #112
steve-howard wrote: post #109

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My energy level problems stem from something else, because I've not had any of it since I was 12. Still trying to find the cause.

Maybe it's your diet.

My diet was very different before I got to college.
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