05-24-2010, 12:31 AM
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Moderate your Moderation.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadeTreeMech
lessons learned from the world of fluid dynamics are universal, but water is much less dense than air, so anything extrapolated from water to use on land would have to be exagerrated to be considered similar.
Also, somewhere common sense should come into play, surely.
And aerohead has been doing this stuff while many of us were babies. He deserves respect by virtue of earning it.
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Backwards, my friend. Water is on order of 800 times more dense than air.
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