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Originally posted by: Vegitto
Yay, unauthorized referrer..
Originally posted by: Cameron
What is that pic from?
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
If this is true, I weep for the future of this country if a large number of people actually thinks the plane will take off. Sometimes, you just need to let retarded people be retarded.
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
If this is true, I weep for the future of this country if a large number of people actually thinks the plane will take off. Sometimes, you just need to let retarded people be retarded.
Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
If this is true, I weep for the future of this country if a large number of people actually thinks the plane will take off. Sometimes, you just need to let retarded people be retarded.
You're kidding, right? Seriously. You're joking... aren't you? Jesus America is stupid and it's a sad commentary on our stupidity when a show takes on something that is a matter of physics as a
"myth". There is nothing myth-like about it.
Hopefully Mythbusters will also explore the myth about 'gravity' next. :roll:
Originally posted by: broon
Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
If this is true, I weep for the future of this country if a large number of people actually thinks the plane will take off. Sometimes, you just need to let retarded people be retarded.
You're kidding, right? Seriously. You're joking... aren't you? Jesus America is stupid and it's a sad commentary on our stupidity when a show takes on something that is a matter of physics as a
"myth". There is nothing myth-like about it.
Hopefully Mythbusters will also explore the myth about 'gravity' next. :roll:
Just about every myth they take on is a matter of physics.
The wheels effectively put zero force on the plane (they spin and don't move the plane backwards, no matter how fast the belt moves). Thus, there is nothing counteracting the thrust of the engines. Thus, the plane moves forward (no matter how fast the belt moves). As the plane moves forward (since the belt does nothing to the plane), it gets fast enough to launch. When it moves as it's takeoff speed, it takes off.Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
If this is true, I weep for the future of this country if a large number of people actually thinks the plane will take off. Sometimes, you just need to let retarded people be retarded.
Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
If this is true, I weep for the future of this country if a large number of people actually thinks the plane will take off. Sometimes, you just need to let retarded people be retarded.
If you understood a simple free-body diagram, you would realize the plane actually does take off. The force the engines exert is in a completely different direction than the force exerted by the weight of the plane and the treadmill. Actually, I don't even know why I'm wasting my time.
Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
for the love of all that is holy and scientific - the plane takes off.
ask any aerospace engineer.
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
If this is true, I weep for the future of this country if a large number of people actually thinks the plane will take off. Sometimes, you just need to let retarded people be retarded.
If you have a toy car with wheels, and you hold it on a moving platform, can you move your hand forwards and backwards (against and with the platform movement)? Of course not!Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
for the love of all that is holy and scientific - the plane takes off.
ask any aerospace engineer.
Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
Originally posted by: broon
Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
If this is true, I weep for the future of this country if a large number of people actually thinks the plane will take off. Sometimes, you just need to let retarded people be retarded.
You're kidding, right? Seriously. You're joking... aren't you? Jesus America is stupid and it's a sad commentary on our stupidity when a show takes on something that is a matter of physics as a
"myth". There is nothing myth-like about it.
Hopefully Mythbusters will also explore the myth about 'gravity' next. :roll:
Just about every myth they take on is a matter of physics.
Okay, but this is a little different. Unlike, say, figuring out whether a chicken could really puncture the cockpit of a plane, this 'myth' requires no actual experiment.
Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
for the love of all that is holy and scientific - the plane takes off.
ask any engineering freshman.
Originally posted by: dullard
The wheels effectively put zero force on the plane (they spin and don't move the plane backwards, no matter how fast the belt moves). Thus, there is nothing counteracting the thrust of the engines. Thus, the plane moves forward (no matter how fast the belt moves). As the plane moves forward (since the belt does nothing to the plane), it gets fast enough to launch. When it moves as it's takeoff speed, it takes off.Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
If this is true, I weep for the future of this country if a large number of people actually thinks the plane will take off. Sometimes, you just need to let retarded people be retarded.
Why? Because the belt doesn't affect the plane at all.
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
Originally posted by: broon
Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
If this is true, I weep for the future of this country if a large number of people actually thinks the plane will take off. Sometimes, you just need to let retarded people be retarded.
You're kidding, right? Seriously. You're joking... aren't you? Jesus America is stupid and it's a sad commentary on our stupidity when a show takes on something that is a matter of physics as a
"myth". There is nothing myth-like about it.
Hopefully Mythbusters will also explore the myth about 'gravity' next. :roll:
Just about every myth they take on is a matter of physics.
Okay, but this is a little different. Unlike, say, figuring out whether a chicken could really puncture the cockpit of a plane, this 'myth' requires no actual experiment.
Pretty much all of their "myths" could be explained without an experiment, but that wouldn't make very good TV![]()
Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
Well fiiiiine, I get your point
I just hate this topic and wish that people were not so stupid.
