ComicalGnomes wrote:
Just looks like some little tosspot who signed up purely to take a poke at me. How very special
I did, yes. And I realise that signing up just to vent at someone is a pisspoor way to start posting on a forum, and I now I'd be best off fading back into the lurky shadows from whence I came, but there's something about this debate that never fails to make my normally restful dander rise until it most definitely is up.
Mainly what got me going was the fact that others persistently tried to explain the "wheels aren't pushing the plane/think of a rollerskate being pushed on a treadmill" concept to you, only to have you stick your fingers in your ears and say "No no no I'm going to check with my physics mate! He's smart." And then your brilliant physics mate goes and gets it all arse about anyway, AND THEN after your mate finds a page that can explain it in terms he can understand so that you both finally comprehend the matter, you come back and state that you find it "much easier to accept with the quality of this explanation" and then attempt to explain the so-called stumbling block to everyone else, even though that stumbling block is like a single block of Lego placed in the middle of the Black Rock Desert.
At that point, I began thrashing about wildly like a slug in a saltshaker and signed up to let off steam.
I really shouldn't have gotten worked up, as the majority of the responses in this thread were on the mark. It even had clever chaps addressing the feedback loop that would be caused if the treadmill was supposed to match the rotational speed of the wheels, though thankfully that wasn't the terms of the question in this case.
But anyway, vent I did, and I understand that makes me a tosspot or an arsewanker or just a big greasy nerd, but that's something I'm going to have to live with. I'm also going to have to live with my blood pressure being too easily raised by threads on forums... but oh god this plane on runway thing why oh why arrrrghgrhrjhhfzqv#k$&~^
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