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There is a-lot of effort in explaining to a new barber how you want your hair to be shaved. Normally it doesn’t always work. Thats why men maintain the same or will travel across town for a shave. Even Presidents keep one barber for life. Ruto has his barber all the way from Eldy. Its a whole relationship.
I agree 100%. Its not cheap. With your networks you can become more creative with sponsors and pair the drive with such activities as charity drive etc and those joining can contribute. We contributed over a million for a girls orphanage and it made the whole drive wholesome.
1. We have gone ahead to scout the entire route to avoid any surprises for anyone.
2. Producing high quality films is expensive
3. Fuelling a flatbed to follow guys around in case someone breaks down is a cost
4. Paying mechanics to follow guys around again is a cost.
5. Sorting out the film crew and support crews accommodation/food is a cost.
6. High quality merchandise is also expensive.
These are just but some of the cost centres. People never believe it but we have never made money (profit) from any drive. The minimum cost for such a drive for us is about 800,000. Without sponsors, we actually go into our pockets to the tune of hundreds of thousands.
I was one of them with the Audi guy. We are a whole community and no one was left behind. I repaired my rim at mtito and the Audi used a spare till Mombasa where he got a new rim.
We had a flatbed all the way at the same time it was carrying all the goods for the kids. We raised over a millie for some orphanage in Malindi. We just didn’t do a road trip for fun, we changed some girls lives while having fun. That’s the whole essence of it. While i agree the planning is apt of work, at least pair the event with such life changing activities.
Agreed. But we have been doing exact the same for forester nation without billing the participants by partnering with say fuel companies like Vivo, sponsors, volunteers etc. As you grow big it’s something that’s achievable. Ours has always been paired with a charity event and all contributions go towards helping kids rather than event organisation. It’s something you can try.
1. We have gone ahead to scout the entire route to avoid any surprises for anyone.
2. Producing high quality films is expensive
3. Fuelling a flatbed to follow guys around in case someone breaks down is a cost
4. Paying mechanics to follow guys around again is a cost.
5. Sorting out the film crew and support crews accommodation/food is a cost.
6. High quality merchandise is also expensive.
These are just but some of the cost centres. People never believe it but we have never made money (profit) from any drive. The minimum cost for such a drive for us is about 800,000. Without sponsors, we actually go into our pockets to the tune of hundreds of thousands.
I just came from a Forester nation event in Malindi which we paid 5k each towards charity. Why am i paying 7k for admin, logistics and etc. Make me understand.
Insane.
If you built a time machine and went back just one minute, you'd die in outer space.
Earth wouldn't be there anymore. It would be about 22,000 km away, almost two whole planets down the road, because the ground under your feet is flying through the universe at around 830,000 mph and your time machine didn't come with a steering wheel.
And we actually know that speed pretty precisely, which still kind of blows my mind. The Big Bang left behind a faint glow of microwave light that fills every corner of the sky. It reads 2.725 degrees above absolute zero, almost exactly the same everywhere you look. The patch of sky we're heading toward runs about a tenth of a percent warmer, and the patch behind us runs cooler by the same amount. Same reason your windshield gets hit with more rain than your back window when you're driving through a storm.
Back in 1977, a Berkeley team led by George Smoot bolted a microwave detector into a U-2 spy plane, flew it 20 km up, and measured that warm side well enough to clock our speed. NASA's COBE satellite nailed it down later. Relative to that glow, the Sun is doing about 370 km every second.
This is where time travel gets really messy.
Galileo figured out back in 1632 that you can't feel steady motion. Below deck on a smooth ship, a dropped ball falls straight down whether you're docked or sailing. Einstein built relativity on top of that idea, so "where you were a minute ago" only means something once you decide what you're measuring from.
Measure from the Sun and Earth moves about 1,800 km a minute, so a one-minute jump puts you somewhere between 1,800 km up in space and 1,800 km underground, depending on which side of the planet you started on. Measure from the center of the galaxy, which is what the counter in this animation tracks at 21,200 AU in 455 years, and you're about 13,000 km off. Measure from the Big Bang's glow and you're at 22,000.
Every time travel movie skips this. Doc Brown's DeLorean shows up on the same street in Hill Valley because the movie quietly decided Earth is the one thing in the universe standing still.
If you want the most honest answer to "where was I," that ancient glow is the best one anyone's got, since it's the only thing spread evenly across the entire universe. Nothing about using it breaks Einstein, either. Physics works the same at any steady speed.
And 370 is us going slow. The whole Milky Way drifts through that glow at about 550 km/s, and right now the Sun's lap around the galaxy points mostly the opposite way, so it cancels out a big chunk of it. In about 115 million years, halfway around the lap, the two line up and our speed roughly doubles to somewhere near 780 km/s.
So get your time machine's math wrong by 34 seconds and you'd be floating directly in Earth's path, with the whole planet coming at you at 830,000 mph.
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Obiri was third sir.
Well done to Sheila Chepkirui for winning the women's New York Marathon, and to Hellen Obiri for an impressive second-place finish.
A huge thumbs up to Edna Kiplagat for coming fourth at 46; what a feat!
Hats off to Philemon Kipchumba for a remarkable victory and for setting a new course record at the Istanbul Marathon earlier on. Bravo, Vincent Ronoh, for securing third place in the same race.
We take immense pride in your performances. Keep going.
