According to the article, an American yacht had a special ribbed film on its underside to reduce water resistance.
その記事によると、あるアメリカのヨットが、水の抵抗を減らすため、底面に凹凸のある特殊なフィルムを貼っていました。◆【出典】Catch a Wave, 2004年2月27日号(株式会社浜島書店)◆【URL】http://catchawave.jp/
Mission controllers say high-resolution cameras aboard the International Space Station will take pictures of the underside of the Discovery as it nears the outpost for docking on Thursday.
It is thought that the lower shell developed before the upper shell to protect the turtle's underside.
カメの腹側を守るために腹甲が背甲より先に発達したと考えられている。◆【出典】Catch a Wave, 2008年12月12日号(株式会社浜島書店)◆【URL】http://catchawave.jp/
Deputy shuttle program manager Wayne Hale says a spacewalking astronaut will either remove or trim two bulging pieces of fabric from the Discovery's underside.
Engineers at the Johnson Space Center here in Houston are analyzing the information sent by the astronauts to determine how much danger the nicks on the underside will pose.
He describes a region and a people haunted by the past.That past includes slavery and how it continued to affect blacks and whites long after it ended. Though some people might argue that Faulkner, a white Southerner, is not the best person to write about black experience, his fictional blacks were the first African Americans I "knew." And he made me want to know more. Reading him led me to work by African American, Asian American, and other ethnic writers. Faulkner woke me up to the underside of American culture and to the richness of cultures outside of the mainstream.