{"id":757,"date":"2025-05-02T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:36:11","slug":"counter-intuitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/uncategorized\/counter-intuitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Counter-Intuitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is counter inituitive that a smooth, polished surface such as that found on an airplane is best for reducing frciton, drag etc. But it turns out that a rough, but structured surface, like shark skin, is much more efficient:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/airlines-save-billions-shark-skin-b2742953.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/airlines-save-billions-shark-skin-b2742953.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/airlines-save-billions-shark-skin-b2742953.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is counter inituitive that a smooth, polished surface such as that found on an airplane is best for reducing frciton, drag etc. But it turns out that a rough, but structured surface, like shark skin, is much more efficient: https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/airlines-save-billions-shark-skin-b2742953.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}