There is an urban legend - generally regarded as fully established as General Relativity, Quantum Theory and the Three Laws of Thermodynamics - that sports cars by their nature cannot (or refuse to) provide adequate cargo space for day-to-day living. We now have demonstrated experimentally that this bit of lore is based on faulty observations. Thus, the visible light spectrum of Figure 1 (
vide infra) clearly indicates that a trunk (or rear boot) of a roadster can contain the important food groups. Owing to the opaque nature of the white, titanium dioxide-filled polyethylene bag (also visible), spectral evidence for the presence of 5 Jazz apples, 2"vine ripe" tomatoes, 6 "Select" biscuits and 1 can of Barbasol shaving cream is not available; these contents were verified manually after removing and opening the bag.
Moreover, our work suggests that a roadster may be able to hold additional cargo, since a spectrum of the front boot of the experimental subject appears to be empty (Figure 2). This promising observation will be explored futher as resources become available.
Finally, this research also suggests that behavioral characteristics of 64-year-old males, exposed to strong ambient sunlight and temperatures of 27C, may be worth additional examination.
J. E. Sailor* and B. S. Loud
Institute of Transportational Physics and Chemistry
Submitted: February 27, 2011.
Accepted for publication (online): February 28, 2011
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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