SPEED
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What is speed?
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What is speed?
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SPEED DEFINES EVERYTHING
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Speed is a force of nature that lives with us even before the earth itself exists. A force so powerful that it was one of the causes of the creation of our beloved planet. A high-speed collision between two celestial beings later formed the Earth. The concept of speed has been studied from ancient times to the present day. Many people in archaic Greece have wondered “Why is that bird faster than me?”, From that point theories and myths begin to arise. Over time these theories have evolved with humanity. We have gone from myths and legends about speed to experiments in which it was studied by brilliant minds of the caliber of Galileo Galilei. In this volume of “SPEED” we will talk about the different types of speeds that we can see with our eyes and their particularities.
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“We affirm that the b world has been enric form of beauty: the b With these words, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti dispatched the Futurist movement in his 1909 “Founding and Manifesto of Futurism.” With these words, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti dispatched the Futurist movement in his 1909 “Founding and Manifesto of Futurism.” This was a pivotal moment. Dramatic technological changes including the proliferation of trains and trams, the mass production of automobiles, and, in later years, the growth of aviation would significantly alter man’s sense of himself and his surroundings and secure the primacy of the machine. The excitement new technology generated would also lead to psychic upheaval as humanity’s sense of space and time was transformed by the collapse of distance.
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Geography, cityscapes, the pace of everyday life, and the spread of information would all radically evolve to meet the demands that accompanied these modern developments. The Futurists eagerly promoted this new idolatry of speed in various artistic forms as a means of exploring the ways this rapid development in technology, increased movement, and access to information changed the outside world, and as a method of contending with the internal, psychological effects of the shifted sense of the individual within modernity.
beauty of the ched by a new beauty of speed.”
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A glimps of speed
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This is one of the first tecnique used to stop a frame of an action for later producing with several frames a very fractioned scene. The whole prodecure to crate such art piece is by placing several cameras in an horizontal line in front of a long and wide wall or any smooth background. Later the subject that has to do is action will pass infront of all cameras that will flash a part of
the movement. Later all the photos are taken and united to form short scene. This piece over here is one of the series made by Eadweard Muybridge called “The Horse in Motion“. Muybridge shots the photograms were made in 1878.
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HOW CAN 20 MINUT WHEN YOU’RE CATC A FRIEND, BUT FE SLOW IF YOU’RE W
TES FLY BY CHING UP WITH EEL INCREDIBLY WAITING IN LINE?
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO PERCEPTION.
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TACHYSENSIA,What does it feel like when the body seems to move faster than it actually does? It as a feeling that body movements speed up to 1.5 to 3 times the actual speed of movement. There is a small support group of about a thousand “Fast Feelers,” some found to fall into these fast feeling episodes for less than 10 minutes from one to five times a year.
There are source that suggest that the subjects might be having a variant of migraine attacks. Some people know something about this strange syndrome that has a name without a definitive diagnosis. Can it be real? Can it be just another form of migraine? Or is it likely to be a skidding synchronization of the bodyclock with environmental time? I can recall similar experiences
when I was much younger under conditions of having a fever from a bout with the flu. I would see space and time dilated, as if in a dream. Only I was not dreaming. People in the room would seem very far away, and their motions were disturbingly fast. We know that high body temperature can distort the sense of time.
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The thrill of r
racing
is not the speed but the feeling of driving on the edge. The first time in the car, you think: “Oh my God, this speed is crazy.” But after five laps it becomes normal. It is more about driving so close to perfection and getting perfection out of the car. It is exciting to know you have taken a corner better than anybody else in the world.
372 km/h is the max speed reached during a Formula One race. It was achieved by Valtteri Bottas in 2016 during the Mexican Gran Prix at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. With his Williams FW48 the finnish driver was able to achieve such staggering speed in the long start-finish straight of the track. Formula 1 is a sport that combines the adrenaline of speed and human curiosity for it is formula 1. Pinnacle of engineering and on a par with aerospace science. Ten renowned car manufacturers, such as Ferrari and Mercedes, compete on tracks around the world to find out who can build the fastest car there is and win. In addition to carrying with it the economic importance of these giants around the world. But above all, they make millions of people discover the world The engineering level behind the creation of a Formula 1 car is so high that it is
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on par with NASA. Thanks to all this research and effort spent in the construction of these racing cars we can see these monsters on four wheels impossible to imagine. The concept of speed is elevated and even overshadows the basic principles of common physics. It has been defined that these powerful and preforming vehicles are able to move upside down in tunnels and the like. This makes us understand how much the human being craves and seeks speed in everything he does, even in sports and means of transport.
"If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you‘re no longer a racing driver“
Ayrton Senna F1 Driver
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DER KAISER Der kaiser, the nickname given to Michael Schumacher, the most successful driver ever of Formula one. One of the only two drivers together with Lewis Hamilton to have 7 world titles. He and Ferrari during the early 2000s were the pure definition of speed that could be achieved with a perfect driver and an unrivaled V10.
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250 kmh
Formula 1 began in the early post-war second years. The first world championship saw an unpleasant start, with only 5 of the 20 races disputed. The first driver to win the champion title in 1950 was Nino Farina. Then over the years there have been a succession of equally important champions such as Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss and many others but the main problem remained one, the safety of the drivers. The culmination of the problem came in the sixties when, due to the excessive speed and indomitable power of the cars, there was an average of one death every four races.
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After the serious accident that occurred at the nurburgring in Niki Lauda in which he was disfigured for life. From there, the FIA, Fédération Internationale de l‘Automobile, began to enact rules and changes to better ensure the lives of its drivers. In the mid-eighties and nineties there was the famous battle between Alain Prost, the professor and Ayrton Senna, The magician. The challenge went on for many years but ended with Senna‘s death during the Imola Grand Prix where he crashed his Williams at the Tamburello corner. From there the FIA went back to increasing the safety
The Autodromo of Monza hosts the Italian Grand Prix since 1981. The average speed that drivers reach in the 53 laps of the race is 250kmh. The lap record of the track is held by brazilian driver Rubens Barrichello, set in 2004 with the Ferrari F2004.
of its sport by managing to innovate and increase the safety structures mounted on the cars. The 2000s were the era of the powerful V10s and V8s, amazing machines with monstrous speed. At the end of the 2010s, we began to see the development of a hybrid turbo era where the teams had to commit to reducing the pollution of the car. At the beginning of this new era we had an indisputable one of Mercedes until today 2021 where Redbull managed to win the constructors‘ championship.
“If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough“
Light thinks it travels faster than anything else, but it is wrong. However fast you travel, the light discovers that darkness comes always first, and that‘s where it awaits Terry Pratchett
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The space
Max velocity reached by a man-manned space shuttle. It was achived during the mission Apollo 10 while flying to the moon.
39897 kmh
A destination coveted by all and reached by a few. Like all human dreams, it was achieved thanks to speed, a dear and faithful friend who accompanies the astronauts on their journey. Sometimes we forget how fast space rockets actually are. The maximum speed that a human being has ever truly experienced. But to make all of this happen, there is another type of speed necessary to ensure that all of this can happen. It is the calculation speed of NASA‘s super-computers, machines as large as buildings and so fast that they are unrivaled. We must remember that speed also manifests itself in these forms and not just the ones we see with our eyes.
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