12-20-2007, 03:25 PM
Evan Wrote:the way you just changed it just means the runway is a big treadmill, which still means its a runway and will still take off with enough thrust, and isnt a particularly interesting problem.
Well I *ass-u-med* that everyone had seen this same question argued ad nauseum elsewhere on the internet and didnt need to 'splain it.
Edit: I grabbed the first pic I could find for 'plane treadmill' for illustration only
Mythbusters will be testing this (or already has tested it?). Either way it airs next month.