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re: Myth Busters/Can a plane take off on a conveyor belt
Posted on 12/6/07 at 1:49 pm to White Shadeaux
Posted on 12/6/07 at 1:49 pm to White Shadeaux
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Ya'll still having this intelligence penis envy argument?
It's a physics seminar at this point. Teachers are above the line, students below.
Posted on 12/6/07 at 1:50 pm to Colonel Hapablap
Let me guess: Pman is leading the lecture?
Posted on 12/6/07 at 1:52 pm to White Shadeaux
No, he's that guy in the algebra I class who's bringing up the impact of infinite multidimensional vector spaces and their impact on theoretical astrophysics.
Posted on 12/6/07 at 1:55 pm to Colonel Hapablap
So, he must be one of those guys that have those books on the actual science of Star Trek and Star Wars, with blueprints and everything?
Posted on 12/6/07 at 1:56 pm to White Shadeaux
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So, he must be one of those guys that have those books on the actual science of Star Trek and Star Wars, with blueprints and everything?
This would surprise me very little at all.
Posted on 12/6/07 at 1:58 pm to White Shadeaux
You have a problem with Enterprise Technical manuals? 
Posted on 12/6/07 at 1:59 pm to Colonel Hapablap
No, not necessarily.
Just the people who buy into that rubbish.
Just the people who buy into that rubbish.
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:00 pm to Colonel Hapablap
the enterprise could never make the kessel run in 12 parsecs.
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:00 pm to White Shadeaux
how else am I supposed to figure out the right plasma flow rate into the dilithium chamber?
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:03 pm to xLxSxUxFxAxNx
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the enterprise could never make the kessel run in 12 parsecs.
I hear only the Milennium Falcon could do that.
They should make a movie just about the kessel run.
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:03 pm to xLxSxUxFxAxNx
quote:UBERGEEK RESPONSE:
the enterprise could never make the kessel run in 12 parsecs.
Considering that a parsec is a unit of distance rather than time, any space craft would travel the same distance.
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:04 pm to White Shadeaux
anything the millennium falcon can do, the enterprise can do better.
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:04 pm to Colonel Hapablap
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how else am I supposed to figure out the right plasma flow rate into the dilithium chamber?
EVERYONE knows that you don't put plasma in a dilithium chamber. That's where the photon torpedoes go.
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:06 pm to VanRIch
I'm with you VanRIch... don't know why this is so hard for people to understand.
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:07 pm to just me
gotta love wiki
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The most famous use (or misuse) is from Star Wars: A New Hope. In the Mos Eisley Cantina, Han Solo refers to the Millennium Falcon as "the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs". It is not clear whether the unit is being used to measure time or distance in this context. However, later novels in this fictional universe attributed this claim to the ability of the Millennium Falcon to reach the planet Kessel in the shortest distance despite having to pass near a very dangerous region of space
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:07 pm to Colonel Hapablap
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It's a physics seminar at this point. Teachers are above the line, students below
Right... damn my flying time is all gone to waste. Sucks that I just don't have any comprehension of how a plane flies.
What is an airfoil?
An airplane wing has a special shape called an airfoil.
As a wing moves through air, the air is split and passes above and below the wing. The wing’s upper surface is shaped so the air rushing over the top speeds up and stretches out. This decreases the air pressure above the wing. The air flowing below the wing moves in a straighter line, so its speed and air pressure remain the same.
Since high air pressure always moves toward low air pressure, the air below the wing pushes upward toward the air above the wing. The wing is in the middle, and the whole wing is “lifted.” The faster an airplane moves, the more lift there is. And when the force of lift is greater than the force of gravity, the airplane is able to fly.
This post was edited on 12/6/07 at 2:09 pm
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:08 pm to xLxSxUxFxAxNx
So.....the Milennium Falcon flew in a straighter line than other ships?
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:09 pm to MulesAFpilot
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I'm with you VanRIch... don't know why this is so hard for people to understand.
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Right... damn my flying time is all gone to waste. Sucks that I just don't have any comprehension of how a plane flies.
just quoting in case you edit.
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:09 pm to MulesAFpilot
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Sucks that I just don't have any comprehension of how a plane flies.
You're just not getting the fact that the treadmill is inconsequential, since the engines are pushing against the air, and not the ground.
Posted on 12/6/07 at 2:11 pm to ags01
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eta: For the record, if (and that is a BIG if), the experiment is run properly, the plane should take off.
Are you joking?
"Take off speed" is the forward speed of the aircraft necessary to generate LIFT. There has th be airflow over (and under) the wings/control surfaces for the plane to take off. If the plane is sitting on a conveyor belt that is allowing the WHEELS to move at take off speed, that does not mean a thing. There is no movement of air; therefore, the belt could be going 250 mph, and the plane will never get off the belt.
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