Originally Posted by Lsos
Unfortunately, it does not.
I have heard answers to this airplane problem from physics professors, pilots, freaking NASA rocket engineers....fact is, no degree will help you answer this question. It's a simple question of a person's intelligence and ability to reason...not how many hours they spent in the classroom.
It seems that the more educated people are, the longer their explanations as to why it will not fly...with freaking coefficients of lift and drag and force vectors and shit. Hell, I'm surprised no one threw the theory of relativity in there to prove why it will not fly. Of course they then stand firm by this idea...after all, they are the ones with the degree so they must be right.
If there was one thing I learned in college, getting my degree in mechanical engineering, is that a degree has nothing to do with intelligence. Nothing.
The plane will fly.
Well you must be intelligent enough to figure out that without intelligence you cannot figure out stuff like that. Why dont you ask a person with zero IQ or downs syndrome if they can answer it. Dude I dont mean to offend you but I didn't post my answer to be a hotshot or get attention or try to sound cool. It sounds like I hurt your feelings by telling you that I got a degree in Mechanical Engineering. The problem in this post is merely a high school physics question so someone like you and me should know more than enough to answer the question. that was simply my point and i was trying to help. People dont submit their replies in posts to get an EGO BOOST. Have a nice day.