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Old 11-18-2019, 01:18 PM   #5 (permalink)
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So I went back and read the article. Instead of a brick,he is using a flat plate as analogous. A brick, on it's long axis would have better fineness ratio, like a truck van.

His starting point was imagining his lifted SUV as having little brick walls all over it. Not a bad article, except for
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Imagine a tiny little bus taking chickens to work in the city. Oh no, the bus is running late and Meryl Cheep is going to be late to the egg factory!
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