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So, the transition triggers what fluid dynamics is, what they would call a drag crisis, right? And this is basically a drop in the aerodynamic drag coefficient. So the idea with this new soccer ball is that its drag crisis occurs at approximately 27 miles an hour, which is a lower threshold than the 2022 Aorehala or the 2010 Jabulani, right? These ones were a little more chaotic when they went from a laminar to a turbulent flow. So the idea is that when you have an unstable aerodynamic phase at a lower speed, you don't get those sort of mid-air knuckle ball like swerves that I was talking about, which would have plagued the earlier.