Thread of the year again?
airplane vs conveyor belt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S377HwOthjo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ul_5DtMLhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YORCk1BN7QY
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(Even after this, people are still going to argue about this…)
lol @ bringing up the mythbusters again
do you think that tarp matched the speed of the wheels?
common man
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Mythbusters used the proper question without the flawed wording about matching speed of wheels and shit.
And props to Ralph for making this threadz
that is the most reatrded thing ever even a retarded would say thats retarded
OMFG, this again. The spirit of the question was to purposely leave out key information, like where do we measure the wheels speed, and laugh as we argue this for 100 pages. Personally I like to go with the conveyor matching the rotational speed of the wheels because it really isn't much of a brain teaser otherwise and you end up with what the myth busters tested.
Mythbusters used the proper question without the flawed wording about matching speed of wheels and shit.
And props to Ralph for making this threadz
So mythbusters answered the age old question "Will a plane take off"?
OMFG, this again. The spirit of the question was to purposely leave out key information, like where do we measure the wheels speed, and laugh as we argue this for 100 pages. Personally I like to go with the conveyor matching the rotational speed of the wheels because it really isn't much of a brain teaser otherwise and you end up with what the myth busters tested.
77 actually
77 actually
That is if we finish today, but thanks to people like Gerewhore this thread has legs yet. :lol:
77 actually
29 if you change your set up, and you are crazy not to change it.
29 if you change your set up, and you are crazy not to change it.
:lol: That is why I said 100, I didn't want to confuse those behind the times.
Mythbusters used the proper question without the flawed wording about matching speed of wheels and shit.
And props to Ralph for making this threadz
O I C
mythbusters got it right because they didn't answer the actual question but changed it so it was actually testable
riiiiiiiiight
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imagine if you glued two helicopters together all backwards like?
omog
Ha Ha! Made you look.
Let's assume for a minute that the "wheel's speed" is interpreted as the speed of rotation of the circumference of the wheel/tire.
Under these circumstances, does anyone actually think it would take off?
who did this?
Ok, I didn't read the 78 pages of this, so it's probably been answered well several times, but here is the answer:
In a "perfect world" with an infinitely powerful belt and no friction in the wheels:
1. Plane needs to move forward relative to the earth to take off.
2. As the plane starts to roll forward, the belt tries to keep speed with the wheels and ends up moving infinitely fast backwards.
3. There's no friction in the wheels moving infinitely fast so the plane takes off anyway.
In the real world:
1. Plane needs to move forward relative to the earth to take off.
2. As the plane starts to roll forward, the belt tries to keep speed with the wheels and ends up moving backwards at it's top speed.
3. There's little friction in the wheels compared to the belt's top speed so the plane takes off.
The plane takes off.
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