VictorsValiant09

January 14th, 2010 at 2:09 PM ^

Couldn't Superman vibrate so fast, that his molecules were displaced long enough to allow him to move through solid objects? I think that would be an appropriate barometer for Denard Dilithium Speed.

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gobluesasquatch

January 14th, 2010 at 3:14 PM ^

Michigan has a great track tradition, as does Ohio State. There will be tons of athletes and some likely future Olympians competing. If you haven't been to an indoor track meet, this should be good to watch. oh, and yeah, it would be nice to see just how fast over 60 m Robinson is.

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Blazefire

January 14th, 2010 at 2:46 PM ^

Actually, because it is on tape delay, if you aren't there, you will never be able to see it. Denard runs so fast that tape of him actually records backwards in time, and we will end up with a backwards playing video that begins the split second he starts to move for his first step.

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Mr. Robot

January 14th, 2010 at 3:24 PM ^

I went to high school with a freshman on the women's track team, and when I was on the bus headed down to the State Street lot after class today (I live in Detroit and commute in), I saw her on the bus. While she was telling me how her first year of track was going, I asked if she hung out with the football players much, and she said she's talked to a lot of them but mostly Denard because he ran track with her, to which I replied "Denard runs track?". To add even more craziness to the story, just as she finished telling me that the bus pulled over at a stop and Denard got on.

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Mr. Robot

January 14th, 2010 at 4:36 PM ^

I'm an engineer, so I can't care if its really irony or not, just that coincidences are the derivative of irony (or is it the integral?). lol But seriously, I think that counts, doesn't it? Its not the story itself, its the fact that it was news. On the bus, I concluded that this was something I simply didn't know off-hand. By coming home and then here, I learned that it was recent news that I therefor wouldn't and shouldn't have known before hand. There's got to be irony in there somewhere if I remember my high school English terms correctly...

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Tha Stunna

January 14th, 2010 at 5:35 PM ^

Irony = the opposite of what was expected; a fatal cure is a classic example. Sarcasm is also ironic. I am also an engineer, for the record, but I never met any athletes in my time at U of M. I did read the E3W articles making fun of Michael Phelps... good times.

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Mr. Robot

January 14th, 2010 at 6:13 PM ^

That's what I thought. Not exactly a complete opposite, but close enough that one of my roommates majoring in English (Even if it is at Wayne State) said its weak but counts. =p I also never met, much less saw, any athletes before this semester. Now that I take a bus that goes past the athletic facilities at key times of the day I see them all the time. In fact, it was just the other day when I saw Nick Sheridan that it actually hit me that I really DO go to school with said athletes that I watch from the stands and my couch (And after seeing Denard also seriously thought about the fact I'm actually OLDER than some of the current ones now).

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Steve in PA

January 14th, 2010 at 4:51 PM ^

As a former physics ug, I'm concerned that we can never really know either how fast DRob is or his location with absolute accuracy. Assuming that we find out how fast he is, we then can't find out where he is... Nevermind, this could be great since defenses won't know where he is assuming he's actually there and not with Schrodinger's cat.

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