Re: Physics graduate from Daryn\'s alma mater\'s answer
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You've mentioned this five times now, and you've been right each time, but they're just not understanding what you're saying of course. The plane can take off, for all the reasons stated already, but when it does take off, the wheels will be moving x mph faster than the conveyer belt, where x=the plane's velocity relative to the ground/air/whatever.
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The wheels will only move as fast as the force spinning them. In this case the conveyor belt. Remember they are independent of the movement of the plane. The plane can move and the wheels can stay still. The wheels can move and the plane can stay still. Both can move independently at the same time (as in this case).
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Not the way the op was worded, no, this isn't true. And backpeddling 20 pages later when you realize that your Op is impossible and AFTER calling everyone who said the plane won't take off is idiots doesn't work. Are these magical wheels that are not attached to the plane? Becausee that is what you are asserting.
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