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Originally Posted by Now_Rudi
Absolutely "high rate of speed" means something. Rate, as in ratio, directly proportionate to the rate in which they were traversing.
Would you rather us say: Extraordinary frequency of haste, great degree of rapidity, elevated proportion of momentum, exceptional percentage of velocity, astounding level of acceleration? I'll stop here but can do this all day. My job is, metaphorically, writing documents to make them sound fancier than they are in reality.
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Rate of is indeed a ratio.
* Speed is by definition a
rate of change of position, therefore already a rate, adding the word rate before this does not add more meaning.
* High speed means high rate of change of position.
* High rate of speed means then, high rate of rate of position.
Can you explain to me how this makes more sense?
The correct terminology is
High Speed. Nothing more, nothing less.
eg: High Speed Car Chase. NOT High Rate of Speed Car Chase.
I just don't understand how they could achieve such flight at any speed. I can't see anything that looks like a ramp that could launch them that high.
I know I've done some dumb things when I started driving, but luckily cars just weren't fast enough to cause this kind of catastrophic damage and loss of life.