RW-1: You are right that it does not seem that Lu wants to accept popular opinion and expert testimony. That annoys me too. He does however generate discussion.
I don't like to see Nick or anyone else leave the forum due to infuriation. But I question how much the infuriation is due to not being believed or is it due to having to filter out the slanderous, childish drivel that populates the messages once old feelings are brought out.
I've made posts trying to help helicopter pilots understand the concept of gyroscopic precession in r.a.r. and have not been fully able to get my point across. My response to that is to try explain my points more clearly rather than leave in frustration. I've seen Nick do this as well. Perhaps I don't know the personalities in Pprune well enough to know what causes the infuriation, but I've seen more people leave posts that get personal rather than leave those that get politely argumentative.
Still, the point is, the removed thread was generating discussion that many of us found interesting. That is not to say we believe Lu's point. Maybe it's a challenge to some to explain it to the point that Lu agrees with us
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I ask that we either bring the thread back or we start afresh and keep the insults and old feelings out of it. If you don't want this then don't even click on the title of that thread.
Matthew.
[ 03 August 2001: Message edited by: heedm ]