Doesn't really matter at all if you have a take-away now and then so long as you are active. Luckily I'm playing/coaching football nearly 5 times every week so I can get away with a pizza or KFC once or twice a week! Feel crap the morning after though to be fair.

Quote from morpha :

Gills, the car example you provide seems to assume the car is travelling at constant speed, the chair/elevator, however, keeps on falling = accelerating. A direct comparison is difficult because the car example describes movement along an axis not affected by gravity or any other constant force.

To make this easier, let's assume the vehicle isn't a passenger car but a flatbed truck. Let's say it's travelling at a constant 40kph and you're standing on it. Jump now and you might move back just a tiny bit because of the air resistance, but other than that your inertia will pull you along. However if the truck accelerates at, let's say, 0.2g (1.962m/s²) a 1 second jump will already displace you by that much and that's ignoring any resistance! Obviously when you land you'll still be doing almost 40kph so even though you jumped off the truck just fine, you'll have trouble staying on your feet once you land.

The elevator/chair situation is different though since gravity will still affect you even after detaching yourself from the elevator/chair.

Yeah your example is much better. I was just trying to make the point that while you're travelling within a vehicle or an elevator or something like that, you're travelling at the same speed as it is. When I was younger I used to think if you jumped in a bus or car you would go splat against the back of it! So surely if you were in an elevator accelerating downwards it would be impossible to jump if it were going at a speed high enough to be fatal. I know when you're going down in an elevator you can jump in it after it has accelerated when you're travelling downwards at the same rate. I'm starting to get confused myself now! I think because an elevator is not usually in freefall there is enough upthrust on the elevator to allow you to jump? If it were in freefall surely you would not be able to jump because it is travelling downwards faster than you are able to jump upwards? I see where the car example is useless because gravity is the force taking you downwards in the elevator while the elevator walls just encase you. When travelling in a car you're being accelerated along with it. Like I said, not so good with physics. Only science I am ok at is biology! :nerd:

Quote from logitekg25 :

and thats pretty true about the jump, but would it help at all?

No.

It's like travelling in a car. If you jump up you don't go splat against the back window because you're travelling at the same speed as the car. If the car accelerated faster when you were in mid air however, you could probably end up being spat out of said back window. If you're travelling downwards at the same speed as the chair that you are standing on, what is there to push off of to create a jump that would make you go upwards? Nothing, the amount of upthrust applied to you would be roughly the same as what is being applied to the chair, which means that all you would end up doing is pushing the chair downwards a bit quicker instead of pushing yourself upwards. I'm not trying to be a smartass because I am no genius when it comes to physics but that I would have thought is pretty much common sense. Infact some of the things I've said could technically be incorrect I'm sure if that is the case I shall be very quickly corrected as is usually the case around here!

Spotted the Caterham in used cars this morning and bought it. It's not the fastest car in my inventory but with soft racing tyres you can go around corners so bloody fast it's mind-boggling!

Just raced against H.Winkel, V.Wong and a Mr J.Hendricks! All in the same race

You call that I sword? This is a sword!

Quote from J@tko :

But by then we'll be living underwater. [/busted song]

And my great, great, great granddaughter...

Is pretty fine

Quote from AtomAnt :

If you're stating the obvious and making fun of me for having a beer on my desk.......research "I Stated the obvious, and now my friends hate me"

:fenceefend yourself (I don't speak French)

I don't really get that last line I guess that's the 10% that didn't make sense.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

LOL ugh and you guys want this to guy to go away? What randomness he brings! It's like lerts only AAnt makes sense 90% of the time!

The guy doesn't understand the difference between someone starting a personal attack against him and a simple light-hearted joke.

Not that I expect you to acknowledge this reply, as now, apparently, all of my friends hate me. :nerd:

Anyway I did some research as requested by AAnt, since I obviously "stated the obvious". Quite useless though as it sends me straight back here

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:rally_dri

Quote from bunder9999 :

they're probably getting their first real use after purchase...

(opens can of worms)

i wanted to buy a ps3 when they first came out, but gt5 was the only game i was interested in... LBP was of no interest to me, and all the other "good" games are probably on XBL. what other PS3-only games are there?

God of War 3
Heavy Rain
Killzone 2
Killzone 3
Little Big Planet
LBP2 soon
Metal Gear Solid
Motorstorm series
Ratchet and Clank
Resistance
Resistance 2
Uncharted
Uncharted 2...

... to name a few, there are quite a lot more but they are the main ones that spring to my mind

Quote from anttt69 :

Because the Slim is out. (just like the PS2)

My fat PS2 never had a problem and I've had it for about 9 years now and it was used very frequently. Often left on overnight if I couldn't find my memory card. My fat PS3 also works absolutely fine and I got it in 2007.

I'm interested but I'm babysitting tonight so I can't.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

I notice it's within quick reach of a cold beverage.

That would explain a lot. :hide:

Sadly, I find it harder driving with the cockpit view that comes with the premium cars. It's the cockpit movement. It's too shaky. Whenever I use a cockpit view I turn off all cockpit movement and I remove the steering wheel and hands. Only then I find it becomes usable. Instead I use the bonnet cam in GT5, which I feel is a great shame because I miss out on the effects like the rain etc.

Quote from 91mason91 :

I'll be happy to join.
I've already raced Gills, Brandon and Troy and beat them all so im looking forward to a challenge.

But then at the same time, I also beat you and that was when we actually had cars with similar speed and not when you pulled out your Minolta on the Ring and sped off to about a minute lead.

Quote from TehPaws3D :

People who talk like that.. or anyone who replaces E's for 3's....

*looks at name*

Damnit, I shunned myself. But I'm cool.. right?!

Wait what!? I've been reading your name as "Teh paws three dee" ever since I first saw you posting.

Quote from theirishnoob :

he owes me insect repellant.

Touché!

And after that he then had the cheek to try and make me do "the face" in the line up video :melting:

It's only just stopped snowing here in Gillingham after 3 days of it coming down without halt. The untouched stuff on my front lawn and ontop of my car was at about 50cm deep!

We shall see about that.

/speculation

C'mon Scawen! :bullwhip:

1. Get decent A level grades
2. Save as much money as I can from my fun but shite paying job working behind a bar.
3. Continue impressing as a goalkeeper in part-time semi-professional football, which will hopefully eventually lead to being noticed by a full-time club meaning I can go professional and earn more monies!
4. Not to get injured playing football like I did this year, making a cracking safe at the expense of my wedding finger which shattered.
5. Staying sane while my girlfriend constantly nags me.
6. Try not to be a wanker too often!
7. Cut down on drink and crap food.
8. Contradicting my previous aim slightly, buy my first beer legally.
9. Finish rebuilding my classic Austin Mini Sprite.
10. Drive around a beautifully laser-scanned Rockingham in LFS.

Santa owes you nothing. You're on the naughty list AAnt :mischievo

Just did a rally event against a C.Hansen!

Why don't you take a seat over there in my Integra Type R?

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

That LFS meet in 2008/2009 (can't remember, Tristan set it up) was pretty cool at the Race Sim Centre. (whom I keep getting stupid promotional emails from, ugh!)

Was a good day. Be even better now that I can drive myself. *Tristan peeps around the door* "O hai!" and all the jaffa cake packets on the table

I wasn't having a pop at anyone here! Heck, I'd be in college right now if I weren't snowed in. Was just letting everyone know that I did host one up there with the intention of getting some LFSers together racing and despite only having one, it was quite a laugh. There were a few people from this forum on my XMB showing that they were playing GT5 anyway.