On 8/10/17 2:32 AM, Eric Flesch wrote: But I'll post here now and again
-- maybe on some
controversial topic like in the old days, who knows.
cheers, Eric
Yes Eric, there was a time when weeks and multiposts
addressed such arcane but interesting topics
such as 'faster than wind'
Now the boundaries of discourse seem to be unnecessarily constrained.
Richard
[[Mod. note -- I think the topic of 'faster than wind' (a.k.a considering
whether a suitable sailboat with both water & air propellers can sail
downwind in still water faster than the wind velocity, as in
http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/researc...e_pull-you.pdf
) is more appropriate for our sister newsgroup sci.physics.research.
-- jt]]