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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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The high speed camera was intended to be used to calculate the speed of the cap. It was going so fast it was only captured in 1 frame, which is only enough information to put a lower limit on the speed.
How do you calculate speed at all with only one frame?
It was a lower bound. It had to have been traveling fast enough to only be captured in one frame.
Gosh, the one frame probably didn't even have a reference time to work from.
You dont, hence why only a lower limit could be established with a single frame capture.
Basically like saying "if we only got 1 frame, then it must be going faster than x mph/kph"
Distance between not moving and gone compiled against recording timestamp and detonation.
It's, not very accurate. But you do get a lower bound.