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If I can interject...
A common reply to the answer that there are no absolutes, is that such a statement is self-contradictory, because it relies on the absolute that there are no absolutes... that there will always be at least one thing God has made, which does not have an absolute to itself. I tend to think that, on some level or other, there still is an absolute. For example:
A is always true, except in case B.
A is always true in case B, except in case B-1.
A is always true in case B-1, except in case B-1-A.
See where I'm going with this? No matter how closely you zoom in, there will eventually be an absolute... even if it's absolute only for that one time, in that one circumstance, for that one person or thing. Otherwise, we'd be living in infinite universes, experiencing all of time and space at the same time, and there'd be no stability. God didn't make a universe like that, in which everything is a constantly-changing illusion. (I realize that you apparently don't believe in God, but this post is coming from me, after all...).
Originally posted by Didymus Much
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I understood perfectly what you said. Now you're "I know what I said was wrong, but what I really meant was..." 
WRONG. That aircraft has NO SOLAR CELLS and NO BATTERIES. Google "Gossamer Albatross" for enlightenment.
Which ISN'T what you originally said. It could as easily be a rocket engine providing the thrust, which has no blades.
No. Your claim was that if the aircraft isn't moving, then there's no lift, which I disproved.
STOP MOVING THE GOALPOSTS, WOULDYA?
The point of my earlier post wasn't to prove you wrong, by the way. It was to show you the dangers of making absolute statements (ie. "A" is ALWAYS true), especially when you don't have the facts and education to back them up. Like with Bernoulli's "Law", which works great UNTIL you have compressibility effects enter the picture (for aircraft, roughly Mach 0.7 / ~500 mph), then that plane you just designed falls out of the sky for no apparent reason.
Ask a physics professer about this, I'm done. Good luck in school.
WRONG. That aircraft has NO SOLAR CELLS and NO BATTERIES. Google "Gossamer Albatross" for enlightenment.
Which ISN'T what you originally said. It could as easily be a rocket engine providing the thrust, which has no blades.
No. Your claim was that if the aircraft isn't moving, then there's no lift, which I disproved.
STOP MOVING THE GOALPOSTS, WOULDYA?
The point of my earlier post wasn't to prove you wrong, by the way. It was to show you the dangers of making absolute statements (ie. "A" is ALWAYS true), especially when you don't have the facts and education to back them up. Like with Bernoulli's "Law", which works great UNTIL you have compressibility effects enter the picture (for aircraft, roughly Mach 0.7 / ~500 mph), then that plane you just designed falls out of the sky for no apparent reason.
Ask a physics professer about this, I'm done. Good luck in school.
A common reply to the answer that there are no absolutes, is that such a statement is self-contradictory, because it relies on the absolute that there are no absolutes... that there will always be at least one thing God has made, which does not have an absolute to itself. I tend to think that, on some level or other, there still is an absolute. For example:
A is always true, except in case B.
A is always true in case B, except in case B-1.
A is always true in case B-1, except in case B-1-A.
See where I'm going with this? No matter how closely you zoom in, there will eventually be an absolute... even if it's absolute only for that one time, in that one circumstance, for that one person or thing. Otherwise, we'd be living in infinite universes, experiencing all of time and space at the same time, and there'd be no stability. God didn't make a universe like that, in which everything is a constantly-changing illusion. (I realize that you apparently don't believe in God, but this post is coming from me, after all...).
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