I once wrote a model of the world economy. It ran on an HP3000, and looked 
pretty, but was actually complete guesses. 

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Peter Evans wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 08:46:24PM -0800, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> > Until we have a model that would pass muster for simulating the
> > Coefficient of Drag of an automobile (and as far as I can see the CRU
> > climate model doesn't), how can we base any major public policy
> > decisions on it?
> 
>       I used to work for FLUENT, back when version 4 was all FRONART,
>       It was my understanding that the way to determine the Cd of a
>       vehicle was(and still is) model testing.
> 
>       There was also RAMPANT, which was used for transonic and supersonic
>       modeling, that was in C. My favourite test for that was the COW at Mach 
> 1 ^^;
> 
>       Back then, our biggest box has a hamster stunning 768mb of ram, all
>       it could take! (some HP 9000/125??) and modelling the Monju Reactor 
> Probe
>       basically paid for the whole thing ^^;
> 
>       p
> 
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