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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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It's big! It's heavy! It's wood! (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh my log

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

See also: knot (literally how many knots in the rope were pulled overboard by said log in a given time).