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Originally Posted by TSteele65
Of course if you drove a car at 5 knots, you'd get ridiculously good mileage, too.
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Actually, you'd get really lousy mileage, since you're running the engine down in a very inefficient part of its operating range. If you think about how much gasoline an engine burns idling for an hour and figure that you're using a bit more than that to go all of six miles... your mileage is going to really suck.
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You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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