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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 04/28/2002 : 11:57:27
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"An object in motion shall remain in motion...."
Until it encounters the rear end of another car at 30mph.
Way to go, Megan. Keep lotion on that chin and it shouldn't scab to badly.
(Photos upon request)
Lisa
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/28/2002 : 13:10:46 [Permalink]
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Ouch!
Another of life's lesons learned in a way that it will not be soon forgotton.
Hoping for a speedy recovery and not too many sore spots.
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"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
- Albert Einstein
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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
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Posted - 04/29/2002 : 08:19:30 [Permalink]
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Hoping for a speedy recovery and not too many sore spots.
I second that
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 04/29/2002 : 09:32:52 [Permalink]
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That is one of the hardest ways to learn physics. But one way that you will never forget.
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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
1668 Posts |
Posted - 04/29/2002 : 09:55:22 [Permalink]
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Inertia is one of the more nasty parts of physics.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the legal age for drivers was 16?
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 04/29/2002 : 10:20:23 [Permalink]
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Most rural areas have a legal driving age of 14.
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 04/29/2002 : 10:44:04 [Permalink]
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Here in SD, you can get a learner's permit at 14. Once completed driver's ed, ($200) a kid can have a restricted license. It allows for driving during the day. I think its 0600-2000.
At 16 the license is unrestricted.
Megan has a license for car and motorcycle. She'll be 16 in Oct. (With probably a bit less of a lead foot)
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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 04/29/2002 : 14:02:18 [Permalink]
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14?! Yikes, baby drivers, I'm staying put in the city. But I'm glad if she did have to have an accident that it was in the car and not on the motorcycle.
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 04/29/2002 : 14:08:40 [Permalink]
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Makes some sense if you think about it. Where I grew up in Virginia, we could get a learner's permit at 15 and 8 months. Four months later, a totally unrestricted license.
By the time Megan is 16 and gets her unrestricted license, she'll have nearly two years of driving (and hopefully only one accident) under her belt.
Lisa
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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 04/29/2002 : 14:15:47 [Permalink]
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Living in Manhattan I got my first drivers license when I was 36. Although admittedly in the time I sent in Asia and the South Pacific as a callow beardless youth I was a bit of a mad man on a motor cycle. (Why do they call them "motor"cycles when they don't have motors--they have engines?)
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Lars_H
SFN Regular
Germany
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Posted - 04/29/2002 : 14:44:16 [Permalink]
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Here in SD, you can get a learner's permit at 14. Once completed driver's ed, ($200) a kid can have a restricted license. It allows for driving during the day. I think its 0600-2000.
At 16 the license is unrestricted.
That is so unfair! 200$ for a drivers license at 14? In Germany you have to be at least 18 and pay about ten to fifteen times as much for it. At least that means that at this points most youth have had several years experience legally getting drunk when they are first left behind the wheel.
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 04/29/2002 : 14:58:13 [Permalink]
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Lars, in the US we do everything ass backwards like that. First, the drinking age is hiked up to a ridiculous age that virtually no one obeys, least of all teenagers, and then kids are given the ability to drive autos. One way to look at it is a funky American method of population control.
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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
1668 Posts |
Posted - 04/29/2002 : 15:00:18 [Permalink]
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You can't get drunk legally here until you are 21. But you can join the army at 17 (parents permission) or 18
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
4607 Posts |
Posted - 04/29/2002 : 15:04:00 [Permalink]
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Oh, and the other funny thing about our drinking age laws is that since teenagers want to drink but it's illegal you end up drinking away from home, usually in your car. So basically we encourage drunk driving!
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Wiley
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 04/29/2002 : 15:21:33 [Permalink]
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Ouch. And you'll get to learn another law of physics: what goes up, must come down, except insurance premiums.
I wish everyone involved a speedy recovery. Thirty mph doesn't seem very fast until you're in an accident.
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Zandermann
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 04/29/2002 : 16:21:59 [Permalink]
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hope you're healing well, Megan, and hope that the damage isn't too bad
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