RE: [ATM] Wind resistance & golf balls

["Alan Scott" <alanne1956@hotmail.com>]

lol.  I like this idea!

alan scott
http://www.xmission.com/~alanne/Astronomy.html


>From: "mbyorick" <mbyorick@starband.net>
>To: "'atm'" <atm@atmlist.net>
>Subject: RE: [ATM] Wind resistance & golf balls
>Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:58:11 -0700
>
>
> > To cut resistance golf balls have regular indentations all over. The
> > suggestion was that I do the same with my tube.
>
>It would seem that, for the purpose of reducing wind resistance in a
>'dimpled' truss tube OTA, one would have to impart a rather rapid spin
>to the entire OTA in order to take advantage of the dimples.
>Alternatively, one could simply motorize each of the truss tubes such
>that they spin individually, which would make manual observing somewhat
>easier...
>
>Mike Byorick
>
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