... Also, this is why golf balls are dimpled rather than round, the airflow over "real" surfaces in the real world doesn't stay laminar very long, and then it goes through a very quick transition to turbulent and then separated flow. The dimples actually act to cause the flow over the entire golf ball to be turbulent for as long as possible before transitioning to separated flow, hence the ball is less draggy and you can hit it further....
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So my orange peel paint job makes me faster! Cool.
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