Falling Doesn't Count

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Here's a humdinger of a thought experiment: How fast could people go before the combustion engine and other technologies drastically increased the speed of the human race? And how did they pull it off? Skis? Sled-dogs? Catapults? From ancient horseriders and viking ships to primitive luges and "Russian Mountains", the Outside/In team researches all sorts of old-fashioned methods of locomotion and presents biggest the speed trial of the millennium. If you've got your own ideas about how humans hit record speeds during ye good olde days before the automobile, send us an email at outsidein@nhpr.org or call us on the Ask Sam hotline: 1-844-GO-OTTER! Episode photo by William James, courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives. Sign up for our newsletter Find more Outside/In at outsideinradio.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is me checking the mic. Do you know how many roadies it takes to change a light bulb?
0:06.0	One, two, one, two, hey, one two, there it is.
0:19.0	This is Outside In, a show about the natural world and how we use it. So we are all in the studio here today with Nick Capadiche, co-host of Civics 101, one of
0:26.0	HPR's other podcasts, and also Justin Paradise.
0:29.8	Yeah, I'm right here.
0:30.8	And Executive Producer Eric Janick.
0:32.4	Hi there.
0:33.2	And Taylor who is you know...
0:35.7	Are you just going to not give me a title?
0:37.7	And Taylor quit me.
0:39.7	That's fine.
0:40.7	Taylor's still here.
0:41.4	So Nick, we're here because we have been vigorously debating a question that you presented to us at one
0:49.1	point.
0:50.1	Yeah, it's a question that I've had, that my friends and I have debated for about 20 to 25 years.
0:55.0	It's like every time you come together the friendship just picks up where it left off.
0:58.0	It's just if it's late enough in the night and somebody throws this question out then we just do it you know okay so the question is
1:03.7	this before planes before cars what is the fastest that a human being could go?
1:14.0	Trains? Before trains?
1:16.0	Before engines? Before engines?
1:17.0	Before all the fast stuff happened.
1:19.0	Before we got real fast.
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