Zwift Chat

[Peter Salt]

Urgh, was hoping that an effort was going to help me sleep… fat chance 😟
Don’t think I’ve had more than three or four hours sleep for the last fortnight; just lying in bed worrying and thinking about British Standards 5950 and 6399…

See... I'm on the opposite side of that spectrum. People at work always ask me how can I be this calm and unphased with problems all around.

The reason for this is because, objectively speaking, nothing is ever a problem. I.e. we're so miniscule and insignificant that the World doesn't even notice us. As a result, we could literally conjure up the biggest, baddest, meanest problem imaginable, and still, it would be like a fart in a football stadium for the rest of the Universe.


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Grab a grain of sand and think about the fact that there are more stars out there than grains of sand on this little planet. Chill out - problems don't exist

 

[berty bassett]

See... I'm on the opposite side of that spectrum. People at work always ask me how can I be this calm and unphased with problems all around.

The reason for this is because, objectively speaking, nothing is ever a problem. I.e. we're so miniscule and insignificant that the World doesn't even notice us. As a result, we could literally conjure up the biggest, baddest, meanest problem imaginable, and still, it would be like a fart in a football stadium for the rest of the Universe.


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Grab a grain of sand and think about the fact that there are more stars out there than grains of sand on this little planet. Chill out - problems don't exist

Not for me today 😁😁

 

[bridgy]

See... I'm on the opposite side of that spectrum. People at work always ask me how can I be this calm and unphased with problems all around.

The reason for this is because, objectively speaking, nothing is ever a problem. I.e. we're so miniscule and insignificant that the World doesn't even notice us. As a result, we could literally conjure up the biggest, baddest, meanest problem imaginable, and still, it would be like a fart in a football stadium for the rest of the Universe.


View: https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g


Grab a grain of sand and think about the fact that there are more stars out there than grains of sand on this little planet. Chill out - problems don't exist

A good philosophy to try and live by but definitely easier said than done on a day to day basis!

Interesting (slightly pedantic ) fact though - Sagan made a mistake with his grains of sand analogy. There's more stars in the universe than all the grains of sand on earth's beaches, not more than all grains of sand on the entire earth - still pretty mind-blowing though of course!

 

[Legs]

Grab a grain of sand and think about the fact that there are more stars out there than grains of sand on this little planet. Chill out - problems don't exist

Another nice thought is that if you changed every molecule in a glass of water into a grain of sand, it would cover the surface of Earth - including the watery bits - 2m deep with sand.

(RMM of H2O = 18; 250ml of water is 14 moles = 14 x 6 x 10^23 ~ 8 x 10^24 molecules => 8 x 10^24 grains of sand.
Marcus du Sautoy reckons that there are 7 x 10^9 grains of sand per m^3, so the sand would fill ~ 10^15 m^3
Surface area of Earth ~ 5 x 10^14 m^2, depth = 10^15 / (5 x 10^14) = 2m)

 

[Peter Salt]

Interesting (slightly pedantic ) fact though - Sagan made a mistake with his grains of sand analogy. There's more stars in the universe than all the grains of sand on earth's beaches, not more than all grains of sand on the entire earth - still pretty mind-blowing though of course!

Actually, we don't know. If we want to get into semantics - he did say universe and not 'visible universe'. As we're limited by the distance that light has travelled, we don't know the actual size.

You can even get more philosophical and have a conversation on what is sand. Pulverized quartz? What would be the threshold diameter between sand and rock? What would be the threshold silica content?

But yeah, at the end of the day - it's an unimaginably large number

 

[mjd1988]

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[CXRAndy]

Never mind all that, is the sand the correct dampness to make sandcastles

🏖️

 

[Joffey]

With all this talk of sand are we fancying Sand and Sequoias for Stage 3?

 

[bobinski]

A good philosophy to try and live by but definitely easier said than done on a day to day basis!

Interesting (slightly pedantic ) fact though - Sagan made a mistake with his grains of sand analogy. There's more stars in the universe than all the grains of sand on earth's beaches, not more than all grains of sand on the entire earth - still pretty mind-blowing though of course!

I thought that Peter Sagan made a different mistake recently? 😁

 

[bridgy]

With all this talk of sand are we fancying Sand and Sequoias for Stage 3?

I actually liked the earlier suggestion of the Innsbruck "2018 UCI Worlds Short Lap" course for the "Climbing" stage. It's a big old climb, but not as huge as the Epic KOM plus radio tower climb. And it's flat until the climb, followed by about 13km of descent plus mostly flat to the finish line. This profile should give a chance for heavier riders to try and chase down better climbers after the climb. My PR for the course is 40 minutes so that's shorter than last night's and everyone should finish within the hour I think.

 

[Joffey]

I actually liked the earlier suggestion of the Innsbruck "2018 UCI Worlds Short Lap" course for the "Climbing" stage. It's a big old climb, but not as huge as the Epic KOM plus radio tower climb. And it's flat until the climb, followed by about 13km of descent plus mostly flat to the finish line. This profile should give a chance for heavier riders to try and chase down better climbers after the climb. My PR for the course is 40 minutes so that's shorter than last night's and everyone should finish within the hour I think.

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Good shout - give it the beans on the climb, recover and try to chase back on.

 

[Peter Salt]

With all this talk of sand are we fancying Sand and Sequoias for Stage 3?

Thought you're going to mention sandbagging

I actually liked the earlier suggestion of the Innsbruck "2018 UCI Worlds Short Lap" course for the "Climbing" stage. It's a big old climb, but not as huge as the Epic KOM plus radio tower climb. And it's flat until the climb, followed by about 13km of descent plus mostly flat to the finish line. This profile should give a chance for heavier riders to try and chase down better climbers after the climb. My PR for the course is 40 minutes so that's shorter than last night's and everyone should finish within the hour I think.

I like the look of it as well. If I die, I might as well die in Innsbruck

On a different note, many, many thanks to @Joffey for recommending the SIS stuff. Was worried about the morning but woke up full of energy

 

[mjd1988]

Neo bike delivered! Slightly concerned that they've left it on my doorstep with a note rather than it needing a signature (too heavy to steal? )

 

[bridgy]

Also, for next week's "Flat" stage (nothing to complain about next week guys - except maybe from @berty bassett although he was pretty bloomin fast on the flat sections last night!), how about we use the new Neokyo course - just because it's new and pretty! "Sleepless City" course is very flat - will just need to decide on distance - I'm thinking maybe 30km (18 miles) which is about 3 laps?

 

[CXRAndy]

I actually liked the earlier suggestion of the Innsbruck "2018 UCI Worlds Short Lap" course for the "Climbing" stage. It's a big old climb, but not as huge as the Epic KOM plus radio tower climb. And it's flat until the climb, followed by about 13km of descent plus mostly flat to the finish line. This profile should give a chance for heavier riders to try and chase down better climbers after the climb. My PR for the course is 40 minutes so that's shorter than last night's and everyone should finish within the hour I think.

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Never get back the climbing losses. It would take something like triple the down hill speed to catch up. If Lee crested with a 30 seconds lead. No one would catch him, by the time the chaser crested Lee would be a least 500 metres in front.