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Unlocking the Mystery of Blackbird: Exploring Wind Power Leverage
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[QUOTE="AnssiH, post: 6572597, member: 45441"] Yeah I saw a number of threads about the topic here, and seems like for the most part people here are "getting it" pretty much straight (with occasional kicking and screaming ;) ) If you look at the thread at the other forum I think you can see that the problem is probably not the way I'm explaining it (tried quite many different perspectives), but rather the attitude of the other party that completely prevents them thinking about it. It's the houlier-than-thou attitude that we all sometimes get when we feel like we just don't have time for non-sense. It just gets a rather extreme form here, and the irony becomes incredibly thick when that attitude is posed as a defense of science (when it's in fact the exact opposite of scientific thinking). You will see the other party posting even quotes of Feynman warning about this exact tendency. Anyway, the sad part of it is that scientific thinking often gets confused with "believing in science", and locking threads with misguided physical understanding only promotes that confusion. This leads into some of the most damaging confusion against scientific thinking, I think. Btw that moderator just told me in PM that it's a crackpot idea to even suggest that force could be leveraged into larger force. 🤦♂️ So I think I should probably do the responsible thing, and approach other moderators of the forum with a suggestion that a person who does not understand basic leverage of force should perhaps not attempt to moderate a physics forum. I mean... am I wrong? -Anssi [/QUOTE]
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