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They actaully go further with dimples than without. Amazing what you end up watching on TV when your suposed to be working from home. Got to love the Discovery channel
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Dimples, concave, like those used on a g*lf ball, are designed to reattach the airflow that moves around the ball as it flies through the air. These dimples allow for further flights of the ball with the same energy input as a ball without dimples.
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As far as I remember, designers were looking at putting dimples on the nose of commercial jets... |
Precisely!  Who'd say that the smoothest form isn't always the more efficient aerodinamically?  |
Car parts as well. Unfortunately, the stylists don't like it. |
So that's what happened to the VW Golf then- I though it looked a bit smooth