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RANDOM MUSINGS FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL

12/09/2010

SPEED

Answers to Tuesday's quiz.

Jet airplane ... 550 mph
MLB pitchers fastball ... 100 mph
Race horse ... 38 mph
Light ... 670,000,000 mph
Snail ... 0.03 mph
Dragster ... 330 mph
Olympic sprinter ... 22 mph
Peregrine falcon ... 168 mph
Hailey's Comet ... 148,000 mph
Antelope ... 60 mph
Turtle ... 0.17 mph
Lion ... 50 mph

Do turtles eat snails? What else could they catch?

0.03 miles per hour means that a snail could travel 158.4 feet in one hour if it could keep up that blistering pace that long without getting tired.

How does a lion catch an antelope? They have to sneak up on them, I guess.

Of course, the Reds' Aroldis Chapman can throw at least 101 mph.

One time Cris Collinsworth, while playing for the Bengals, tried to outrace a thoroughbred race horse at the race track for charity. He had a big head start and still couldn't win.
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