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...motion, but instead of colliding with one another every 10,000th of an inch, as they do at sea level, they travel many feet between collisions. When a solid body passes through such a rarefied atmosphere, it behaves as if it were moving in space containing a few ping-pong balls in rapid, random motion...
...chamber, the faster the molecules move. When the temperature in the source chamber is 1,000° C., the molecules in the beam speed at 1,800 m.p.h. Models of aerodynamic surfaces placed in this beam behave just as if they were moving at 1,800 m.p.h. through the ping-pong-ball atmosphere on the frontier of space...
Student Li Ping-ning: "America contaminated my moral thinking with such books as How to Win Friends and Influence People and Short Cut to Success...
...every man who has been labelled a natural athlete were drafted tomorrow, none of the rest of us would ever have to worry about induction. Sports publicists --as opposed to sportswriters--love to work on a football player, for example, who also plays a bit of ping pong, and build him into the greatest all-superlative on two feet. (See a college football program for further particulars...