View Pit Stop page for race #2009 by fivethirtyeight — Ghost race
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Official speed | 85.68 wpm (67.93 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | July 28, 2018 3:06:40pm UTC |
Race Finish | July 28, 2018 3:07:48pm UTC |
Outcome | No win (1 of 1) |
Accuracy | 96.0% |
Points | 124.24 |
Text | #3810044 (Length: 485 characters) Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. |