Tom Siebel on Being Gored by an Elephant

Re:Tom Siebel on Being Gored by an Elephant by Aetius on Saturday September 25, 2010 @08:47PM (#1728246)

Upvoted, but curious...why is this good advice? Can the car not outrun the elephant. Is the elephant afraid of the engine? Does the elephant outmatch the car's velocity? Because you can be sure I would get the hell out of there as fast as possible.

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Re:Tom Siebel on Being Gored by an Elephant by mayank on Sunday September 26, 2010 @03:40AM (#1728761)

Those elephants can run very, very fast if they're pissed off, and among other reasons, the savannah isn't straight-line driving for the most part. Elephants like to frequent parts that are heavy scrub, which limits straight-line speed. Besides, the land rovers out there are generally very old and really not capable of exceeding 50 km/h.

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Re:Tom Siebel on Being Gored by an Elephant by Aetius on Monday September 27, 2010 @11:36AM (#1732031)

But...shouldn't you take your chances?? I mean, stay, hope they are afraid of the engine, and if they're not get obliterated: or run and risk them catching you? I think I'd take the second option.

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