Self-limiting system. As you black out, the circle gets looser, the Gs fall off, you wake up more, turn tighter, the Gs build again…
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TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago20 hours to travel 2219km is 110km/hr. Around the narrow lane of a roundabout, that’s at least 6gs, which can be fatal without training
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 month ago
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah, that’s some serious donuts they’re making! Is there a German idiom for driving rapidly in a circle? I don’t think “Krapfen machen” means the same thing.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
In Germany, they don’t say “driving rapidly in a circle,” they say “Was soll der Scheiß? Pass doch auf, verdammt!” and I think that’s beautiful
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Truly the language of love.
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
No, but it’s no problem to spontaneously invent one, so I call it “hochgeschwindigkeitskreiseln”
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
“Arschlochfahren”
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You never heard about Kennedy in Berlin, eh?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I heard he claimed he was a kind of jelly-filled donut, but not that he went joyriding.