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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 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 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh my log

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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