Let's say you had a giant treadmill with an airplane on it

[The_Russian]

Splitting hares on Easter.

Good catch!

 

[COOPERVANE]

re-read my post. I said that it would take off.

I admit that the first time I heard this riddle I argued that it would not. Until I thought up the rollerblade/treadmill/rope analogy

 

[jijarwm]

The treadmill will be going so fast in a negative direction that it will descend.

 

[Occam's Razor]

I miss this thread...

 

[COOPERVANE]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Future Furlough]

Wait for it.....Wait for it....Yes!imp:

 

[Occam's Razor]

Metaphysically speaking, I'm not entirely sure the airplane or the treadmill really exist in the first place.

If they do...then my inner-cynic believes larger forces control the results of the hypothetical:

If the airplane's destination is Minot, it will, in fact takeoff. Proving that God hates pilots.

 

[PhatAJ2008]

So lets say this a/c lifts off this giant treadmill which it was stationary upon. Then what happends, it magically gains enough speed to maintain lift? I don't get it. The plane is not moving... if it does lift off it just floats in the air above the treadmill now?

 

[belchfire]

Oh sweet Mary, not afrackinggain!

frackfrackfrack...frackinghypotheticalfeldercarb!

End rant.

 

[Occam's Razor]

(shhhh! Don't scare him away!)

Cloooooser...cloooooser!

 

[better up here]

What's this about a teadmill... I like the free weights more. Chicks dig it. Anyway, you have to ask ALPA if it will fly, right?

 

[Future Furlough]

The aforementioned free weights will put said RJ over weight and/or out of CG so that it may not legally fly.

 

[30West]

Any answer is going to be hypothetical until the experiment is actually carried out.

 

[Papps]

The question is pointless because everyone knows that when the treadmill hits 88 miles per hour, the plane will travel back to 1985 anyway.

 

[Future Furlough]

Nah, my 400 amp generators will never crank out the required 1.21 gigawats of power. Now, if it was a plutonium powered airplane....

 

[Sawmill]

The airplane will definately NOT fly!

 

[Sawmill]

The airplane will definately fly!

 

[CFIse]

If you had a treadmill that big why would you waste you f*!king time putting an airplane on it?

 

[WalterSobchak]

Nah, my 400 amp generators will never crank out the required 1.21 gigawats of power. Now, if it was a plutonium powered airplane....

Who needs plutonium from the Libyans when you've got a Mr. Fusion? Trash is where it's at!