[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[fso301]

I thought synthetic shark skin was supposed to cut the friction

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

How about plain old compressed air, like those ultra Russian torpedoes?

[Kickass Conservative]

Just put Robert Gibbs into a blender, instant slime.

[awestk]

Wouldn’t a ship-hull-cleaning roomba be easier?

[terpsichorean]

Speaking of slick marine designs, coming home on the ferry this afternoon I saw a pod of these :

[count-your-change]

This is from New Scientist Apr. 16, 08:

“Dolphin trick
It might seem counterintuitive to reduce drag by wrinkling the surface of a craft, but nature provides a precedent. “Dolphins induce their skin to wrinkle, so water won't stick to them,” says Lagoudas.

After calculating that this approach would work, his team tested designs for an “active skin” that shifts to the shape of an ideal surface wave.”

www.newscientist.com/.../dn13693-shapeshifting-skin-to-reduce-drag-on-planes-and-subs.html -”

Whether it ever came to anything I don't know.

[ElectricStrawberry]

OYG........lyin’ Brian Thomas MS* actually wrote an informing article with no false conclusion of “See, God did it.”

I see you trying to insinuate some intelligent design wording........but BRAVO for not coming right out and saying “this proves Genesis”