Tonight's episode of Mythbusters settled, among other things, that long-standing Internet debate about whether or not an airplane on a conveyor belt moving backwards (like a treadmill) at a speed equal to the airplane's normal ground speed during takeoff would lift off or not.

The answer? The plane does take off. The thurst of the airplane engines acts on air, not on the ground through the wheels.

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