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Have you ever considered that your clothes run long distances when cycling in your washing machine( WM)? Considering a mean WM of 45 cm of internal diameter, a normal program of 1h30min, and a maximum speed of 800rpm (which lasts only for a small frction of the entire program), then you can come with a total run path of 25 to 30 km!!! Where the 60% of the this path has been run during the centrifuge. With WMs that reach speeds of 1200-1400rpm the clothes can run over 35km!
Bit of explanation about the galaxy: I produced the image of M74 taking from public images the three bands and combined them in false colors.
Ubiquitous computing?
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AEG Lavamat L78840 washing machine user interface.
