Tuesday, March 20, 2007

T[r]opical fish

So my planned tuesday nudi (the follow up to last week's imitating nudi) will have to wait a week because I saw this story on cnn.com. The story for those of you not clicking the link is about mercedes' new bionic concept car which is based around the cube boxfish below.


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It seems wind-tunnel testing of a clay model of Ostracion cubicus is revealed a drag coefficient of 0.06 which is rather good. Of course they might be efficient but they're also rather adorable when little. They're also, I think, a little dopey lookingt and not particularly speedy but I'm sure Mercedes will work round that.

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