^Hey look, I just countered every point you just made in that post while I was making mine. Look at how stupid you are.
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Originally Posted by SalaciousTunare  Lonin is simply wrong.
By his logic a fan boat with a top speed of 10mph, could go against the current of a 10mph river and make headway upstream.
IT CANNOT RETARD.
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PhysOrgForum Science, Physics and Technology Discussion Forums -> Plane on conveyor... Will it ever take off? Somewhere in that 600 page thread there is a post that mathematically proves beyond any doubt that the plane will take off. Someone got all the specs on a commercial jet's landing gear, very expensive bearings included, and calculated out how much drag they create.
The answer is: the drag created by landing gear is so insignificant compared to the thrust from the planes engines that it doesn't make a fucking bit of difference.
So even if the conveyor belt could move in the opposite direction at a thousand miles an hour, the wheels would just be spinning that much faster as the plane moves forward and gains enough speed for takeoff.