Don't they teach basic physics in school anymore?

[saggs]

Some players arguing on country over the Brewster FM in the MA today.  I take no stance on if it's accurate or not, don't really care.

But some of the physics arguments being thrown out there where making me laugh and cry at the same time, laugh at their stupidity, and cry that their education failed so badly.  Mr. Newton would be saddened if he where around today, by the fact so many people fail to understand his 3 laws of motion.

[Karnak]

Examples!  We demand examples!

Names can be omitted to spare the guilty. 

[MaSonZ]

names would be worth it though...


what kind of school they go to? i go to school where some of the teachers could almost care less about us and yet we still get tought basic physics. -public school.

[Motherland]

They do.
Unfortunately, they don't on the History Channel.

[JOACH1M]

I just aced physics last semester

[icepac]

Wait until they try practical application of thier physics on a real vehicle....

[mensa180]

Yes, they do, great class. 

[saggs]

I'm not giving names...

Just some arguments about how heavier fighters like a Jug can dive and zoom climb better...  because they are heavier.  

[F22RaptorDude]

If you jump off something high you die, if you drop something heavy from really high up you go to prison. All the physics you need.  


On that note I might add that my Physical science teacher was a bit insane.   I think what he taught was right but he was questionable sometimes  

[CAP1]

Some players arguing on country over the Brewster FM in the MA today.  I take no stance on if it's accurate or not, don't really care.

But some of the physics arguments being thrown out there where making me laugh and cry at the same time, laugh at their stupidity, and cry that their education failed so badly.  Mr. Newton would be saddened if he where around today, by the fact so many people fail to understand his 3 laws of motion.

they do still probably teach it....but in todays world, everyone's a winner, and everyone passes.

[APDrone]

This was posted as a comment to an article on CNN.com.

I kid you not.

"A barrel of oil weighs 306lbs. At 72 billion barrels used per day, the Earth is losing weight at the rate of over 22 billion lbs per day, which is over 8 trillion pounds per year. That seems like a pretty significant number to me, even for a planet. How long does this have to continue before the mass of the Earth is decreased enough to affect its orbit around the sun, or the moon's orbit around the Earth? Sadly, it looks like we're stupid enough to find out"

 

[F22RaptorDude]

This was posted as a comment to an article on CNN.com.

I kid you not.


 

[Tupac]

This was posted as a comment to an article on CNN.com.

I kid you not.

 :|

[Motherland]

I'm not giving names...

Just some arguments about how heavier fighters like a Jug can dive and zoom climb better...  because they are heavier. 

Talk about Newton...
2nd law...
It takes more force to slow down an object with more mass than one with less mass

[GNucks]

I'm not giving names...

Just some arguments about how heavier fighters like a Jug can dive and zoom climb better...  because they are heavier.  

Heavier objects have more momentum and take longer to decelerate. They're not saying heavy fighters climb better because they are heavier, they are saying heavy fighters can bounce back up and regain a lot of E quickly if they don't blow their momentum. The AHWiki stresses this fact several times when talking about aircraft such as F4U's, F6F's, and P-47's. Search for the word "zoom" in any of the aircrafts' bios: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/wiki/index.php/P-47D-11

If the rest of their claims are about as unrealistic as that example I think someone needs to do less dismissing and more listening.