1000km/h Cow Brings Physics Meme to Osaka Indie Games Summit 2026
The game is a playable version of an engineering in-joke that has circulated in fluid dynamics circles for years, showing that the meme can travel from a Siemens blog to an indie event floor without losing its premise.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
At OSAKA INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2026, held at Congres Square Grand Green Osaka on October 3 and 4, the free game 1000km/h Cow by samirin lets players steer a UFO that drags a 600kg cow to roughly 1000km/h so it takes off. The figure comes from a Siemens blog calculation, published in 2015, of the lift a cow would need to fly.
The premise comes from a Siemens engineer's blog posts. Working through lift and drag on a cow at increasing wind speeds, the calculation put the point where lift overtakes a cow's body weight at around 1000km/h. Siemens' blog has described the earlier airflow image as the most-viewed CFD result in history.
In the game, a milk-loving alien's small UFO tows the cow up to that speed. The blog itself concedes no real cow can run that fast, and that a cow would stop running the moment its legs left the ground.
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