Originally Posted by
A Squared
Well, re-exposes it anyway. He's already demonstrated a pretty spectacular lack of understanding of physics and aerodynamics .
And has that breathtaking certainty of the truly ignorant.
He's been on about this for around ten years- popping up on forums and entering into email flame wars- each time retreating when he finally can't defend his BS, but neve EVER abandoning the core premise.
It's a case study in deciding you are right based on incomplete knowledge, then being impervious to evidence that shows you're wrong.
You KNOW you are right, so the counter arguments MUST be wrong- in this case a guy named Newton apparently made some fundamental errors..……
I suspect we've all been guilty of some degree of it somewhere, but most are able to be reasoned with on the end.