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In this case though, nobody was using it to mean "hard". There really were PhD Physicists arguing at length that it was physically impossible to do this. That
by jasonkester 16y ago
In this case though, nobody was using it to mean "hard". There really were PhD Physicists arguing at length that it was physically impossible to do this.
That's why it's an interesting story.
- randallsquared 16y agoNo one ever argued that it was impossible to use wind energy to move faster than the wind. The real problem here was describing the effect as sailing directly downwind. The "sails" (on the prop) do not go directly downwind, and there's stuff going on that isn't best described as "sailing". But by describing it that way, people managed to extract blustery pronouncements and explanations of why it was impossible (which sailing downwind faster than the wind is).