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From: marcos@caus-dp.UUCP (Marcos R. Della)
Newsgroups: rec.autos,talk.bizarre,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Truly relevant discussion
Message-ID: <329@caus-dp.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 87 17:19:48 GMT
References: <4134@bellcore.bellcore.com> <7106@sunybcs.UUCP> <2770@super.upenn.edu>
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 In article <2770@super.upenn.edu>, ulrich@grasp (Nathan Ulrich) writes:
 >In article <7106@sunybcs.UUCP> ugjeffh@joey.UUCP (Jeffrey Horvath) writes:
 >>In article <4134@bellcore.bellcore.com> tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) writes:
 >>>
 >>>What color should my interior of my car be to make my car go faster?
 >>
 >>  Why, I should imagine that you would want the interior parts that face
 >>foreward to be white, and the backwards facing parts to be black.
 >>
 >>  Reasoning:
 >>
 >>The black would absorb the energy of the light, thus transferring your energy
 >>to the car in the forward direction.  The white would reflect the light, thus
 >>reflecting potentially harmful backwards thrust. :-)
 >
 >No, no, no.  According to what I remember of my statistical thermo, you want
 >the *rear* of the car to be white.  That way you take advantage of the
 >transfer of momentum from the photons striking the car.
 >... 

Actually I think that if you really want to move faster, paint the car black,
add white doors and put a red light just outside the drivers window. Then
add a rise-fall noise maker and a BIG engine and you can go as fast as you
want... Just don't get caught! ;-)

Marcos Della
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