Showing posts with label speed what is it good for. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speed what is it good for. Show all posts

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Monday, August 15, 2016

Usain was so fast he could pose for pictures on his way to the finish line and still win.


As fast as Olympian Usain Bolt is, the Jamaican native is nowhere near as fast as Cool Papa Bell.

Cool Papa Bell was so fast, posthumously famed baseball pitcher Satchel Paige said, Papa Bell could get out of bed, turn out the lights across the room and be back in bed under the covers before the room went completely dark.

I understand if you are a little skeptical of the account, since no recording is known to exist of the prodigious feat. But that doesn't mean it couldn't have happened...

Monday, January 20, 2014

"New Record for Human Brain: Fastest Time to See an Image"

"The human brain can achieve the remarkable feat of processing an image seen for just 13 milliseconds, scientists have found. This lightning speed obliterates the previous record speed of 100 milliseconds reported by previous studies."

"In the study, scientists showed people a series of images flashed for 13 to 80 milliseconds. Viewers successfully identified things like a "picnic" or "smiling couple" even after the briefest of glimpses."

"The fact that you can do that at these high speeds indicates to us that what vision does is find concepts," study leader Mary Potter, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., said in a statement." That's what the brain is doing all day long — trying to understand what we're looking at."

Livescience