So yesterday I posted a question about whether a plane on a treadmill runway would take off and most people say No it won’t… which is actually wrong it will take off…

Why?

Well you see people learn by a sort of “pattern recognition” if we don’t know anything about something we’ll make a comparison between it and something we do know something about and then base our assumptions on that. Everyone thinks about running on a treadmill which is very different to putting a plane on a treadmill.
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So you take a rather large playlist with about 60 songs, you then load it up in Listen Gnome hit the shuffle button and then play…

Guess which songs are played one after each other? Sheryl Crow… guess who’s music I’ve decided I don’t like? Sheryl Crow…

At this point you’re wondering how many Sheryl Crow songs there are… 3.

I’m glad I removed the Britney Spears and Aqua songs from the playlist..

A plane equipped with fixed horizontal engines and wheel landing gear is placed on a huge treadmill runway. The treadmill has a clever design and always matches the speed of the plane, but runs in the opposite direction. Will the plane take off and fly or not?

I say the plane will take off (see this digg thread or this one or millions of other ones if you search on google.)

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So I couldn’t sleep and was looking for something todo… and I started browsing around flickr and found the Flickr Wallpaper pool. Now I love collecting background pictures, I have thousands… so I wanted something that could download the newest ones in the pool easily.

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