ryante

@ryante (14)

United States • Age 41

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Airplane Riddle (This one will stump you.)

ryante @ryante (14) • United States 10 Nov 06

Here is a riddle, or in fact, a real theoretical question that is very difficult to answer. Have fun with it. A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while...

riddle question airplane plane

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ryante But if the conveyor belt adjusts it's speed to that of the plane, how can the plane ever move in the first place?

10 Nov 06

Airplane Riddle (This one will stump you.)

ryante @ryante (14) • United States 10 Nov 06

Here is a riddle, or in fact, a real theoretical question that is very difficult to answer. Have fun with it. A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while...

9 responses •

2 people

ryante How does it even move in the first place though if the contact of the wheels and treadmill negate eachother?

10 Nov 06

Airplane Riddle (This one will stump you.)

ryante @ryante (14) • United States 10 Nov 06

Here is a riddle, or in fact, a real theoretical question that is very difficult to answer. Have fun with it. A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while...

9 responses •

2 people

ryante I still don't know. I've never found a true answer for it and it has never been tested. Every answer given is in theory, yet even a professor I read about it stumped on it. First saying it couldn't then saying it could, and then going back to his first...

10 Nov 06

Airplane Riddle (This one will stump you.)

ryante @ryante (14) • United States 10 Nov 06

Here is a riddle, or in fact, a real theoretical question that is very difficult to answer. Have fun with it. A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while...

9 responses •

2 people

ryante But how can the plane ever move if the treadmill is going in the opposite direction that the wheels are moving?

10 Nov 06