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Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow

Posted by timothy on from the but-swallow's-not-on-the-list dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Finally, the question is answered: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? A designer with too much time on his hands uses his new method for graphically representing Strouhal numbers to clarify a truly pressing question for all armchair zoologists (and a few Monty Python fans)."

2 of 321 comments (clear)

  1. It's the European swallow by SuuSt · · Score: 5, Informative

    just so you know

  2. What does it mean? by Siener · · Score: 4, Informative
    Incedibly it seems as if some /.'ers are missing the reference. It's all about Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    The relevant pieces in the script :
    A swallow carrying a coconut? and The Bridge of Death

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    siener's youtube channel