Sure. you forgot your snake tinfoil hat!Swamp Thing said:TIL that a horsehair rope circle won't protect me from rattlers, sidewinders or indeed any kind of North American snake
As a follow on from the June the 5th post.pinball1970 said:
Seems like an excellent idea. I learned something. I really should get up to date with biochemistry.BillTre said:
Nazare doesn't break in the summer. Even if it did, it is a gargantuan pile without much shape. You can't get tubed there. You can't do any sort of maneuver. You can't do anything but run to the shoulder to get out of the danger. Even if you could it's a tow-in wave, which quite rightly isn't allowed in tournaments.BillTre said:
M.Y.A. I.L. (Many years ago, I learned) :Hornbein said:
BillTre said:
This principle of the upstream effect suggests that the larger the body riding behind a cyclist, the larger the aerodynamic benefit for this cyclist will be. Therefore, researchers studied the effect that a following team car, as present during individual time trials, could have on the drag of the cyclist (Blocken and Toparlar, 2015). CFD simulations, validated with WT tests, demonstrated the large overpressure bubble in front of the car (Fig. 1), and revealed that the drag reduction for a time trial cyclist by a following team car at 1, 3, 5 and 10 m could go up to 13.7, 3.7, 1.4 and 0.4%, respectively, potentially providing several seconds of time gain over a typical individual time trial of a few tens of kilometres, compared to a cyclist followed by a team car at 25 or 30 m. Based on this research, the International Cycling Union (UCI) in 2023 decided to raise the minimum distance between a cyclist and the following team car from 10 m up to 25 m (International Cycling Union, 2023), thereby referring to the scientific study by Blocken and Toparlar (2015).
However, this previous work on the aerodynamic benefit for a cyclist by a following team car did not consider the potential additional aerodynamic benefit by the bicycles that are typically mounted on the roof of such a team car. Fig. 2 shows four photographs of the individual time trial in the Tirreno-Adriatico in 2022, where figures a–d show team cars with 10, 4, 2 bikes and only 1 bike on the roof, respectively. On the one hand, this suggests that at that time, there was no consensus in the professional cycling community about the potential benefit by stacking many bicycles on the roof of the team car. On the other hand, a single cyclist in a single individual time trial would certainly not need ten spare bicycles. This suggests that at least one team was aware of the potential aerodynamic benefit by stacking multiple bicycles on the team car roof. However, time trial bicycles are designed to be as aerodynamic as possible, so one could question whether and to what extent these roof-mounted bicycles, when oriented in the riding direction as shown in Fig. 2, provide an extra upstream “push effect” for the cyclist.
However, a fairer comparison would be obtained by considering the cyclist followed by a car with 1 bike on the roof as the reference situation instead of the cyclist riding alone, because indeed there is always a car with at least 1 bike on the roof riding behind the time trial cyclist, as shown in Fig. 2. Table 9, Table 10 hold the corresponding values. We again only discuss the results for the top time trial speed of 50.4 km/h, because these yield the smallest time gains. For a car with 10 bikes, as in Fig. 2a, the additional drag reductions compared to a car with only 1 bike are 0.32, 0.14 and 0.09% for d = 5, 10 and 25 m, respectively. This provides additional time gains per kilometre of 0.07, 0.05 and 0.04 s. For the car with the 2 bikes placed perpendicularly, the additional drag reductions are 2.99, 0.89, 0.50 and 0.36% for d = 1, 5, 10, 25 m, respectively. The corresponding additional time gains per km are 0.77, 0.21, 0.12 and 0.08 s. Finally, for the car with the vertical plate, the additional drag reductions are 4.15, 1.89, 0.99 and 0.65%, and the additional time gains 1.09, 0.44, 0.23 and 0.15 s for d = 1, 5, 10, 25 m, respectively.
But it's harmless. In this day and age I see this as a major advantage.jack action said:
Most Man U fans I know supported it. Deep down though? The club is a business and the major share holders sold their stock legally.fresh_42 said:
I liked that one fan was wearing a knit cap with FC St. Pauli printed on it. It is one of our rebel clubs.pinball1970 said:
...because the beam is still powerful enough to be perilous? Or because it is no longer powerful enough to be perilous?DaveC426913 said:
https://enchroma.com/OmCheeto said:TIL that 1 in 12 men are colorblind.