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But what if the runway was a treadmill?

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Wait, we can haz hamster treadmill powered planes?

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Planes take off at a given air speed, not ground speed, so that wouldn’t affect anything.

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Did you not catch the reference, or are you dedicated to not having fun with this? 😆

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I did see that myth busters episode, yes.

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Did you know that Mythbusters tested whether or not an airplane would take off from a treadmill and came to the conclusion that a plane rlies on air speed and not ground speed?

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