Interesting facts about water
I started to read "How to read water" by Tristan Gooley. It is full of fascinating observations about water in all its shapes, from puddles to oceans.
No doubt I will have forgotten most of it as soon as I close the book, so I will try to keep track of the facts that caught (more) my attention.
To sound smart:
- river do not run straight for more than 10 times their own width, which means that if you find one that does you are looking at evidence of human tinkering
To improve sailing performance:
- when a wind has to pass over an obstacle it will not get back to its former strength and character until it has travelled a distance that is approximately thirty time the height of the obstacle
- current run faster in the middle of a river that at its edges, and faster on the outside edge than the inside one