V-22 Osprey: $20 billion; 25 year; 30 lives....

Rob Arndt wrote:
On Sep 29, 10:36?pm, (Richard Casady)
wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:26:26 -0500, Dan wrote:
Man was never intended to fly nor travel faster than a horse.
The fact is that over long distances, 100 mi, say, a man can outrun a
horse. You can catch them, eventually just by chasing them until they
are too tired to go on. This applies to open country, without fences,
of course.

Casady

In Wales they have a competition between runners and horse riders over
a stretch of land and the horse doesn't always win. Same for that
trendy sport of running through cities over everything in your path
(can't think of the name of it right now). Those guys have beaten cars
in city races! Plenty of fences, terraces, bridges, inclines, stairs,
railings, buildings, vehicles, etc... in the way too.

Rob


On "Top Gear" (motoring show, BBC(?))

The host (Jeremy Clarkson) "raced" a marathon runner over the London
marathon route... It wasn't rush hour, but... Guess who won.