{"id":31748,"date":"2009-10-23T20:30:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=120187"},"modified":"2009-10-23T20:30:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:30:53","slug":"mythbusters-test-golf-ball-effect-on-real-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/31748","title":{"rendered":"Mythbusters test golf ball effect on real car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"620\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.megavideo.com\/v\/PMB935S87b2d887aa31261214bac8bb33d8f3bfc\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.megavideo.com\/v\/PMB935S87b2d887aa31261214bac8bb33d8f3bfc\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"620\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object>It&#8217;s almost like someone got their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topgear.com\/uk\/\">Top Gear<\/a> in my <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/fansites\/mythbusters\/mythbusters.html\">Mythbusters<\/a> lately. First the duct tape holding up a car, and now the &#8216;golf ball&#8217; effect on mileage. So what exactly does happen when you cover a car with clay, and then dimple it like a golf ball?<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the video and find out, or just scroll past the picture of the lovely Kari Byron. The car part is about 40 minutes in. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mythbusters20.jpg\" alt=\"mythbusters20\" title=\"mythbusters20\" width=\"233\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-120237\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes. Apparently, covering your car in clay and dimpling it like a golf ball will result in a significant increase in gas mileage. Who would of thunk it? The real trick it to make sure the dimples are scaled up to the proper size. I could get into the science, but it&#8217;s easier to let <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/tag\/mythbusters\/\">Jamie and Adam tell you all<\/a> about it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/GKmtUC9c3MPBSBLrg4asPzl-ktE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/GKmtUC9c3MPBSBLrg4asPzl-ktE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/GKmtUC9c3MPBSBLrg4asPzl-ktE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/GKmtUC9c3MPBSBLrg4asPzl-ktE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=NnIdJsVN2Nk:ABPZXxV3hr4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=NnIdJsVN2Nk:ABPZXxV3hr4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=NnIdJsVN2Nk:ABPZXxV3hr4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=NnIdJsVN2Nk:ABPZXxV3hr4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=NnIdJsVN2Nk:ABPZXxV3hr4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost like someone got their Top Gear in my Mythbusters lately. First the duct tape holding up a car, and now the &#8216;golf ball&#8217; effect on mileage. So what exactly does happen when you cover a car with clay, and then dimple it like a golf ball? You can watch the video and find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}