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    Your maths is weird:
    650 km/h is about 180 m/s.
    Linear acceleration from 0 to 180 m/s in 7 s means 25.8 m/s^2 or about 2.6 g.

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      Haha whoops, I did the conversion upside down, don’t get on any trains I’ve built!

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        Doesn’t matter, as long as you’re not a railway engineer :-p

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          Not anymore!

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Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names. The term was first used in the magazine New Scientist in 1994, after the magazine’s humorous “Feedback” column noted several studies carried out by researchers with remarkably fitting surnames. These included a book on polar explorations by Daniel Snowman and an article on urology by researchers named Splatt and Weedon. These and other examples led to light-hearted speculation that some sort of psychological effect was at work.

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