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Originally posted by Hawk:
How about this.....lets see if this can get to the ALR:

A plane is standing on a runway that can move (like a giant conveyor
belt). This conveyor has a control system that tracks the plane's
speed and tunes the speed of the conveyor to be exactly the same (but
in the opposite direction).

Will the plane be able to take off?
Is the answer offensive? Is that why it could end up in the ALR? I say yes it can take off because it will still be able to reach maximum speed. But then again, it won't have that forward momentum it needs because it would be stuck in the same place. Does it really need that forward momentum, though? Hmm... this seems scientific. I should be a physics major to understand this, no? Too complicated.

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Sincerely,
A Fan of Hootus'