Drag racing starts are based on anticipation. A yellow light precedes the green and the drivers time their reaction based on that light. It’s said that if you see green, you’ve lost. There are occasional zero reaction times, and of course there are fouls. In other words, a .006 reaction time isn’t really a .006 reaction but it’s darn good timing.
Paul > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mike wilson" <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:05:05 AM > Subject: Re: OT - How quick are you? > > Indeed. Most high-level athletics now consider a movement within 0.1 > of a second of the start signal as being a false start. I'm not too > keen on it, personally, as I think being attuned to what's going on > around you is part of being a top-level athlete. As long as they > don't move before "the gun" goes off, it should be considered fair. > > On 29/04/2014, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What you're saying is, she jumped the gun, except that by the time the >> action actually took place the gun had been fired. >> >> On 4/29/2014 9:43 AM, mike wilson wrote: >>> On 28/04/2014, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>> Watching drag racing on ESPN. A young lady pro stock driver, Erica >>>> Enders, >>>> just posted a . 006 reaction time. Now that's fast. >>> More than a little bit faster than the message can get to the brain >>> and back, in fact. >>> >>> "The conduction speed of signals in the brain is about 100 m/sec, and >>> in the central nervous system falls to about 70 m/sec. Just getting >>> the signal from the brain to the feet could take 0.026 seconds >>> (assuming you are 1.8 m tall)." >>> >>> http://condellpark.com/kd/reactiontime.htm >>> >>>> Paul via phone >>>> >>>>> On Apr 27, 2014, at 8:42 PM, "Ken Waller" <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> .228 of a second >>>>> >>>>> Kenneth Waller >>>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Cottrell" >>>>> <co...@seeingeye.tv> >>>>> Subject: OT - How quick are you? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Had three goes, average of about .25 of a second, I'm a bobbing >>>>>> bobcat..... >>>>>> >>>>>> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/reaction_version5.swf> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
