Lest We Forget

March 6, 2013 – 10:15 pm

All right, I know what you’re thinking:

“Yeah, sure, all this ‘civilization’ stuff you’re always on about is probably kind of important, I guess…

…but what about knotted vortices?”

Right you are. And here you go.

Posted by Malcolm on at 10:15 pm, filed under Science. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

One Comment

  1. Bill says

    Actually it can be quite important. Turbulence is the bear of both flight and sailing. It is part of drag but is also a safety problem. The little winglets on the tips of 737 and Aerobus planes are to break up vortices which can cause a following small plane to lose control. Being a physics junkie I thank you for the hit.

    Posted March 7, 2013 at 7:10 pm | Permalink

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