this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2024
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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
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That kind of log floating behind ships was where the term log comes from. They’d throw them overboard and let them drift out over some interval and they’d mark down “log took 30 seconds to drift out to end of rope” to determine their speed.