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Stealth Boat Glides Over Gas Layer

Posted August 30, 2011 12:17 PM

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

A sleek new boat uses a gaseous layer to skim over water with 900 times less friction.

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Yusef1 Guru Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Ottawa Canada Posts: 1975 Good Answers: 117	#1 Re: Stealth Boat Glides Over Gas Layer 09/05/2011 3:13 PM
	If one times less friction is zero, then just exactly how slippery is 900 times less friction? Pedantry DOES SO have a time and a place, and a report in a reputable journal such as "Discovery News" is it. __________________ If it was easy anybody could do it.
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