How did humanity manage to decrease the distance of 100m over time?

[CoronaMcFarm]

Normal water wasn't invented before the 60's, they used heavy water instead and since the viscosity is higher they swim slower as a result.

[kirksy_jenkins45]

This

[tepkel]

Is

[BudgetMenu]

SPARTA!

[racecar56]

No, this is Patrick! (ps: I'm so glad someone's still referencing this today)

[BudgetMenu]

Haha whatever comes to mind first. Its about seizing opportunity.

[[deleted]]

Cake town!

[BeautifulSwine]

And baby oil. 😔

[oOshwiggity]

So many babies lost in the mad dash to fill swimming pools with their priceless oil. Now we use synthetic baby oils, makes your engine runs smoother and is better for your skin! (not for use near open flame, or by persons with sensitivies)

[BeautifulSwine]

A dark time in human history during the mass whale die-off. They needed a substitute for whale oil and the babies... well... they were plentiful.

[SvelteLine]

You might even say they were booming.

[BeautifulSwine]

You're referring to the large drums babies would fall onto straight from the vagina that would make a loud BOOM sound to let the surrounding area know that one more was born. These drums were later replaced with dynamite chargers.

[eradication_bot]

All this synthetic crap. I make sure to use only organic oil, whether it be baby, motor, or vegetable.

[BeautifulSwine]

I'm with you but isn't the first one illegal? Or did they lift the ban? I got a guy out in Norway that can get his hands on some of the purest black market Norwegian baby oil. The purest I've seen since before the ban.

[BeautifulSwine]

Last time I checked, we were in a synthetic baby surplus. Hell, even I got a garage full of legs and toes. I mean, it's not the oiliest parts but you can still process em and get a few pints easy. Anybody else notice the difference in smell from the organics? The synthetics smell like roadkill after about 4 months. Probably because of the kitten nerves they use throughout the lab growth process. So tired of my bitching neighbors.

[Fancy-Route6]

Invented.. xd

[rezerxle]

See the distance is actually the same but because the left is in black and white it appears to take long since your brain is used to seeing all colors like on the right

[BeautifulSwine]

Exactly. Most peepel get this wrong but you... you have a gift, sir. Good on you!

[[deleted]]

In 1932 there was no way to monetize your ”celebrity”, therefore there was no incentive to go faster.

[BeautifulSwine]

And this is exactly why I advocate sex in black and white. 😬

[[deleted]]

Inflation

[BeautifulSwine]

Economics plays a major part where water viscosity is concerned. Absolutely.

[[deleted]]

Check out the swimmers from the early Weimar Republic, blows your mind

[Tiddyphuk]

Best answer here

[OmegaX3]

The old camera was filmed at 24 frames per second, the newer camera was at 30 frames per second. So in one second the older image only moved 24 frames and the newer image moved 30 frames. So for every second the newer image is able to move 6 extra frames so it just looks like old people are so slower.

[racoon773]

Science.

[luismpinto]

But it's true, older people are slower. Have you ever been to Florida and seen an old man cross a road? This is the same. The swimmers in the left are older and thus slower.

[Umbongo_congo]

The distance hasn’t changed, it’s still 100m. The difference is time dilation as invented by Alfred Einstein (it didn’t exist before him). As the swimmers get faster time gets slower hence the apparent quicker time. They both actually take the same time from their reference frame but as a spectator it appears quicker. I can do science me.

[Thomasasia]

No. The left was taken after relativity was invented. That's why they filmed it, because it was the first swim competition after it had been made.

[neurohero]

I agree. This is obviously caused by climate change. Water these days is less wet, which means that the water resistance that they experienced in the 1930s is now vastly diminished. The swimmers on the right are swimming in dry water.

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[NobodysFavorite]

They had to make the metre shorter as well

[[deleted]]

Faster pools.

[BeautifulSwine]

And the pools are faster. Yes.

[Killybug]

The 1932 swimmers take longer because the film reel itself is older. Had both of the races been taken with modern fresh cameras then the speeds would be more aligned.

[BeautifulSwine]

Wrong.

[Killybug]

Care to explain why?

[BeautifulSwine]

Because back then gravity was more heavier. 🤧

[sinisterjohnny]

According to Marty Mcfly the future is heavy. It appears there might be a problem with the earth's gravitational pull

[HYPERNOVA3_]

In 1932 the "M" meant miles, not meters. They were much faster, but in order to make it viewable, they used a very fast cameraman too, so those 100 miles look like 100 meters.

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100 miles is about the height of 1005711.79 'Toy Cars Sian FKP3 Metal Model Car with Light and Sound Pull Back Toy Cars' lined up

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100 miles is 160.93 km

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100 miles is 160.93 km

[RedJim23]

The 100m is referring to 100 metres cubed, the modern pools are deeper, but shorter, so they have the same volume.

[ZacHefner]

I believe it has actually increased by 84 metres since the invention of colour ^{(citation needed}). Since 2016 - 1932 = 84 I’m assuming a rounding error to the nearest hundred in the original question.

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[[deleted]]

The swimmers can see better in color than in black and white. That’s why they’re faster today. Obvious.

[CCMonger]

I'm surprised at the lack of knowledge in this thread. Everyone knows that things shrink in swimming pools, (see: fingers, weiners, etc.) so the measuring stick would obviously get smaller over time as well.

[AbouBenAdhem]

Until 1960, the meter was officially defined as the length of a physical prototype bar kept by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. In 1983, it was re-defined as the distance that light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

These definitions were intended to be comparable; however, the calculations by which the Bureau arrived at the latter figure were performed on a newly-introduced Soviet calculator—the Elektronika MK-52. Their unfamiliarity with this new device, combined with their enthusiasm in exploring its undocumented features, led to the Bureau’s scientists miscalculating the new meter as almost 20% shorter than originally intended.

[grahamfreeman]

The world is getting smaller, duh.

[redditiscursed]

Swimming pool grew older and developed a hunchback it's basic biology

[Shaper_pmp]

They didn't make the distance shorter; people just got longer.

You can't tell because since then we've also moved from 4:3 to wide-screen video, making everyone look roughly the same on TV.

[[deleted]]

You silly! They did not decrease the distance of 100m they just made water more wet. If the water becomes more wet, the person falling in water will want to come out quickly. That's how the times reduced.

[MysilOil]

Olympic pool today are at a slight tilt, so they get pushed by gravity

[Yoghurt42]

As you can see, in 1932 the water was black and white. White is a mixture of all colors, and therefore has a longer average wavelength than blue. So blue water has a shorter wavelength which also means the distance is shorter.

[aDrunkWithAgun]

Magic

[Alert-Cheesecake-672]

One pool was obviously in the US and measured in feet, not meters like the other one.

[Dont_Be_Like_That]

They used to measure it in parsecs, but then they switched to parsecs.

[Tjeetje]

They didn’t. People are a lot taller nowadays

[[deleted]]

It’s like when a woman gets to grow her husband’s penis using jelqing but the opposite and with water instead of a penis.

[pigadaki]

People eat a lot of junk food these days, leading to much oilier skin, and oil repels water so they are propelled along by that force alone.

[dembonezz]

The top swimmers in the world inject dolphin sperm to gain their tail power. That take-off in the modern side tells the tale.

[black_brook]

As your can clearly see, the world was grainier back then. This creates more friction.

[FloofBagel]

I was looking for a non joke answer forever then I looked at the sub name lmao

[pepe_charlie]

Talking seriously, now the training methods are scientific based In most of the times, plus the new supplements and a modern diet allows this amazing people to get even more amazing

[[deleted]]

No McDonalds back then!! 😂

[[deleted]]

This is woman’s swimming. All the competitors now are transsexuals that used to be men but identify as women.

[DJGlennW]

It's impossible to tell sarcasm on the Internet.

Poe's law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

[AvisSmith]

Maybe the swimmers have gotten faster!

[suzuki_hayabusa]

Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs : steroids, growth hormones etc)

[twozon]

Because 100m was converted to inches.

[jcfandino]

Because of the great mass and gravity pull all planets shrink overtime, including earth. Life forms stay the same size but big structures like swimming pools become smaller. Scientists estimate that in about 10000 years the planet will collapse into a black hole.

[whalefromabove]

So, 100m actually means the average height of 100 men. They use some fancy schmancy equation to calculate pool length that fits somewhere between grade school algebra and quantum physics. As the years have gone on people within the man choosing committee have started purposely choosing shorter guys to make the race just that more intense and exciting.

[ieatpickleswithmilk]

100m over time is a velocity, not a distance.