Looks like your comments section fell silent.

Until I ruined it, of course. ;)

It might be silent, but it's an erudite silence.

I had no idea that there were html specifications for subscripts. I will now start blogging formulas to make my place more interesting.

It's at times like this when I know that my original blogging name, "new kid on the block," was just about right.

No way I could go around the block on this one...drag co-efficent???

Silence is Au.

Yeah, with my drag coefficient, I have a hard time going around the block, too.

Kate! While sci/eng reporting is uniformly dreadful, you missed the real illustration in this one.
Cosh's post is valuable, since it shows that (a few/some/many/all) MSM writers/editors can't be bothered to give their readers accurate information. Why? Because they are unprofessional, lazy ...(sorry - had to stop and take my dried frog pills)

Thus is explained much of the bias in the MSM.

"Never attribute to malice what laziness can." explain.

Yeah, well...

dB = (μ0 / 4π) * [(i ds sin θ) / r^2]

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/just my 2¢ (or 0.02€)

1: Что Вы делаете в СССР?

2: Я шпион

1: Всего хорошего!

I have been waiting for Colby to get back to the level of politics that he trod in his "Report" days, in order that us, the 'unwashed' can comprehend and relate to.

what is the drag cooefficient of a gay pride parade float?

is it higher with a ponce or a mince?

Well Stephen, I think #1 is "what do you think of the USSR?", #2 is "I'm a spy", but #3 eludes me, is it "you're very good"?

Stephen Taylor:

Show off! ;-)

Henry, while to some extent I agree with "Never attribute to malice what laziness can explain," it seems to me that there is a critical point at which too much laziness = malice.

I'm sure that we can all immediately think of issues with which we are familiar and which have been massacred by the MSM for simple lack of attention or verification of facts.

From my days back in Russian class, we'd read from our Soviet-era Russian language textbooks (really! -- and this was back in 2002).

"What are you doing in the USSR"

The usual answer was

"I'm a student. Which way to the bookstore."

or something like that.

So, I looked up how to say "I'm a spy"

Prof got a kick out of that.

The last line says "Have a nice day" or simply "Good day"

Oops... the last line isn't "good day". I translated it wrong.

Damn.

Let's just go with a simple:
"До свидания"

Dos-vee-dan-ay (Goodbye)

(dos-vee-dan-YA)

"What do you think of the USSR" would be something like:

Что Вы думаете o СССР?

думаете (root word дума (doo-ma) means "to think")

The Doo-ma (or Duma) is the Russian parliament. As if Parliament is where lots of "thinking" goes down.

/end threadjack

When I run into similar puzzles, I pull out Jennifer Niederst's "Web Design in a Nutshell", which has a nice of set of HTML tables at the end. (And is a fine book, overall.)

(I use the 2nd edition. There is, supposedly, a third edition out, but Amazon was unable, for some reason, to ship me a copy, though I waited for months. If you search for the book, you will want to know that her name has changed. She is now Jennifer Niederst Robbins.)

Oh, if only the Superkids were here! They'd be able to explain it to us. Or SOW.

Colby lost me and I even know what he's talking about. Just an FYI for Colby - arrows coming out of a bow will have about the same drag as the new fangled vehicle. (arrows are the only reason I ever went to Deslisle Sk)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_coefficient

Well, steve, at least your physics formulas are correct ;)

stupid electricity.

What may not have been mentioned in the article Mr Cosh linked, was that the car completed the runs in 5th gear:
"There is so much more to come as the car is pulling like a train and we still haven’t used sixth gear!"

Details: http://www.jcbdieselmax.com/html/home.php

Cheers
JMH

Why don't you offer to give them a free paint job, Kate? It'd be good advertising.

Why don't you offer to give them a free paint job, Kate? It'd be good advertising.