Shades of Buckminster Fuller and the geodesic dome! I'll drop off a roll
of chicken wire for the new bodywork, AND your Bonneville tapes Thursday. Bob
in connecticut........birthplace of the Dymaxion
> Thatbs why golf balls have dimples: they reduce drag by disturbing the air
> and keeping it in contact with the ball longer. For decades, designers
> strove
> to add more dimples to a ballbs surface, and innovation stopped once
> theybd
> covered 65 to 75 percent of the ball. Then, in 1999, a Callaway Golf
> researcher and former Boeing engineer named Steve Ogg designed a
> conglomeration of dimples that covered 86 percent of the surface of the
> ball,
> and designers returned to the challenge of bettering the design. It was
> Ogg,
> however, who bettered himself by tossing 90 years of industry knowledge out
> the window with one simple thought: eliminate the dimples.
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