Coney Island, home of New York's famous amusement district, hangs from the south coast of Brooklyn like a foot testing the water of the Atlantic Ocean.
One foot testing the waters of reality, one still squarely planted in denial.
(In a test by Consumer Reports last year, some electric models came in at that decibel level, which the magazine equated with a window air-conditioner on high. But most blowers, at 50 feet, tested closer to 70 decibels or higher).
The Flex foot, tested without a cover, had a considerably lower damping coefficient.
In order to assess the effects of relative density, footing tests in a range of natural sands with variable in situ densities were modeled.
In the model tank basin, Andrew DeSpirito, 20, a junior from Mineola, was doing a lab in resistance and propulsion, calibrating the resistance of a wooden boat model as it whooshed down the 96-foot testing pool.
In addition 5 out of 13 TAO patients presented an involuntary movement of the toes of the contra lateral foot being tested during foot rotation.
Mr Dershowitz's core point is what he calls the "shoe-on-the-other-foot" test.
Inside the fully furnished two-story, 600-square-foot test house, appliances toppled and shelves that had not been anchored to the floor or a wall fell.
The acoustics certainly passed the foot test, which so many modern halls fail: during a fortissimo passage with rolling timpani, you could feel the floorboards trembling in sympathy.
