Re: It's official - we're all bad belayers

"Julie" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Lord Slime wrote:
> >>> David, go get your dictionary and look up "discrete". What you
> >>> describe above is like a two line approximation to a curve.
> >>> It's discrete, by definition.

> Slime, what you really wanted to say here was "discontinuous"

I said his hands were discrete, resulting in a noncontinuous
(discontinuous) motion.

> - the
> point where two lines of differing slopes (eg, a two-line
> approximation to a curve of rapelling speed) meet is
> non-differentiable, not "smooth" (and in all but David's hand, will
> likely cause a 'hiccup' mid-rappel); and that, rather than
> discreteness, is the problem here.

That was a similie, in an attempt to illuminate Herr Kastrup,
but alas, that is impossible. I mean really, the guy still belays
with a Munter and raps with a Figure 8!

- Lord Slime


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