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Old 04-04-2006, 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by banda
Do physical principles go bad after some amount of time? Is it just a few decades? Maybe that's why we haven't been back to the moon.
no, but one can hardly compare notes from a 36 year old bicycle and a 180mph superbike....I read the article and found it inconclusive....its impossible to cancel out gyroscopic forces without a equal force in the opposite direction, without somehow having another front wheel spinning backwards in the same area currently occupied by the forward spinning front wheel. This is why counterbalanced engines still vibrate, its physically impossible to make a setup that cancels all the forces out.
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