Reinventing_Wheels

Reinventing_Wheels t1_ja3ye7y wrote

My take on this is to be surprised that the OED isn't nearly as old of a publication as I assumed. I was thinking it was several hundreds of years old, at least, given how long Oxford University has been around.

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Reinventing_Wheels t1_iuh0845 wrote

There's a big difference between how airplane engines and automobile engines are rated for power output. Airplanes have to be able to put out their full rated power for extended periods of time, without suffering any ill effects. Cars only put out peak power for a few seconds at a time while accelerating. Once the car reaches cruising speed, it may only be using a tiny fraction of the peak power output the engine is capable of.

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