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Swimsuit Design Uses Supercomputing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-with-the-flow dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "These days, most competitive swimmers wear some type of body suit to reduce high skin-friction drag from water. And makers of swimwear are already busy working on new models for the Olympics 2008. According to Textile & Apparel, Speedo is even using a supercomputer to refine its designs. Its engineers run Fluent Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program on an SGI Altix system."

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  1. Roland Piquepaille & Speedo by StikyPad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Two words I never wanted to see in the same paragraph.

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  2. Re:Nice to see by akorvemaker · · Score: 5, Funny

    At what point does "Informative" become "Too Much Information"?

  3. Bonobo apes fence in the wild ... by Rob+Carr · · Score: 5, Funny
    Sexual behavior in Bonobo apes is much closer to humans than chimps are to humans. Bonobos have sex face to face, sex for pleasure (although parakeets do that, too), lesbian sex, and (the thing that this thread reminded me of) male Bonobo apes hang from branches and fence penises.

    The recent SciAm special issue, Becoming Human has an article on the Bonobos -- "Bonobo Sex and Society" that covers it in more detail.

    I'm going to regret posting this and admitting I know this, aren't I?

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  4. Re:Nice to see by ampathee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe we need a "-1, Informative" mod :)