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Maybe; I mean, see [0] where an accidental experiment was made when a container with >28k rubber ducks and other floating toys, tipped. New evidence for some mo
by LolWolf 9y ago
Maybe; I mean, see [0] where an accidental experiment was made when a container with >28k rubber ducks and other floating toys, tipped. New evidence for some models was discovered using roughly the same idea—by tracking the floting toys to their final locations.
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[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
- digi_owl 9y agoI seem to recall reading about a similar event involving a container of shoes that went overboard in the pacific, that allowed some scientists to test a computer model by predicting where the shoes would end up.
- zimbu668 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansa_Carrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansa_Carrier
- skookumchuck 9y agoI would imagine that since a large part of the duck sits out of the water, that the wind would introduce enough variance to render the data fairly useless.