Physicists Discover Universal "Wet-Dog Shake" Rule

Dog owners can sleep easy tonight because physicists have discovered how rapidly a wet dog should oscillate its body to dry its fur. Presumably, dogs already know. From the article: "Today we have an answer thanks to the pioneering work of Andrew Dickerson at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and a few buddies. But more than that, their work generates an interesting new conundrum about the nature of shaken fur dynamics. Dickerson and co filmed a number of dogs shaking their fur and used the images to measure the period of oscillation of the dogs' skin. For a labrador retriever, this turns out to be 4.3 Hz."

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Re:Why?

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What possible application could this research be for? In what way does this benefit mankind, expand out understanding of the universe, or improve the Human Condition. And perhaps the most important question, what moron paid for this? Please tell me it wasn't taxpayer money, because then technically I am one of the morons, and I don't very much appreciate it!

The application of the study? To prove how easy it is to waste government money. It's another form of welfare.

In what way does this study benefit mankind? It shows how well socialism works in that it takes money belonging to you and I and gives it to someone who has done nothing to earn it without our permission.

What moron paid for this? You and I did, just like everything else that socialism says it gives away for free.