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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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OK, reading all this makes my brain hurt.
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Yah. Me too. I was busy assembling my new treadmill from bigbox mart and missed the show. What fun. Not.
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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The plane took off.
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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So, why is there still an argument?[/horrible tailposting]
Wtf? The plane was moving forward...so the treadmill wasn't equal to the plane? Well duh, it's not stationary as the original question seemed to suggest, of course it will take off, it will just take the wheels longer to get up to speed. ![]() |
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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All a little anti-climactic if'n you ask me. All the wasted popcorn.
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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They ran the treadmill at takeoff velocity (25 mph). I wonder what the result would have been if they ran the treadmill at the plane's maximum velocity.
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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The same thing. For axle friction to noticeably slow the plane would require a treadmill moving at unimaginable speed. Now that I think of it, a treadmill moving fast enough to slow the plane might even cause enough of a wind-tunnel effect to counteract that friction.
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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Heh, I was origianally going to put in a caveat about the treadmill material. Doing it the way they were (dragging cloth across concrete), a longer (heavier) strip, being pulled faster might require a stronger material.
But that seemed like overkill.
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I can hear my ears
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i thought they would have done this with a remote control plane and a fabricated actual treadmill.
I don't think they appreciate the obstinance that the 'no take off faction' is capable of.
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I can hear my ears
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kitsune, you should start a poll in this thread. Make it public so that we can discriminate against those 'no fly' fuckers. k? thx...bai...
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