That I do understand. So tell me, if the plane is just sitting there on this treadmill, what happens?

 

No you never said it wouldn't take off, but you made some incorrect statements.

Working on planes as you have it is surprising you would make the wrong assumption most people make at first. Then again, the pilot on Mythbusters made the same assumption.

 

If a plane is just sitting there on a treadmill it will not take off.
The problem with that question is that a plane won't just sit on a treadmill; it will move forward regardless of how fast the treadmill is moving.

 

THIS THREAD IS RETARDED.

 

[QUOTE=Neutered Sputniks,Feb 12 2008, 06:31 PM]I NEVER said it wouldn't take off.

 

Supposedly, somebody was quoted 0.002 cents per KB for wireless data while on a trip to Canada. Pretty cheap he thought, so he signed up.

When he got his bill, it was 100 times as large as it should have been. When he called Verizon, it turned out that the plan was actually 0.2 cents (aka, 0.002 dollars) per KB.

The people advertising the plan, and all the customer services reps he talked to plus their managers, couldn't understand the difference between 0.002 cents and .002 dollars.

http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/ve...from-cents.html

 

Neutered Sputniks didn't you previously say that a treadmill moving backwards at 10mph would hold a plane still if even it had enough thrust to move forward at 10mph? And doesn't that imply that you believe that a treadmill moving backwards at 500mph would hald a plane still if it had enough thrust to move forward at 500mph? Your claims do indeed state that you believe the plane would never take off.

 

You've gotta be kidding me. The thread is here in full to be read and it doesn't need to be rehashed, he said but he said.

Those who were right about it from the start, raise your hands---now pat yourselves on the back.

Those who were wrong from the start, raise your hand---now shake the hand of someone else who was right.

Those who attempted to stay neutral about what would happen so they could claim to be right no matter what the outcome, raise your hand---and now swing your arm down and punch yourself in the junk. It's the internet, who cares if you're wrong, just learn a lesson in the end.

Let it gooooooooo.

 

Here you go!

Verizon math

Click on "original phone call". I dare you to listen to the whole thing without wanting to slice your wrists...

 

MikeyCB, I don't mind discussing this with those people who have it wrong. It's fun. Reminds me of the 5th grade, when I had to educate a classmate on what "dark side of the moon" means.