The valve setting in Alrila actually appears to be a little bit more recessed than some of the reset balls. And, you know, when you're looking at the size of that valve, it's only perhaps about one and a half times the width of the ceiling. So it's not a huge asymmetry on the ball. No, no, but it has, it doesn't weigh the same. It's something that's sticking into the ball. It's like mass asymmetry. Yeah. You've changed the mass distribution of the ball. Very slightly. I mean, we, the English invented the modern game of association football. However, we are no longer any good at
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