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I have dun thot this over carefully--
If you put a treadmill in an airplane -and you run as fast as you can - will it make the plane take off faster?
Seems to me the energy expended will do something
But what?
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Why it tires the runner of course.[8D]

You can tell it's going to be a long winter when ye olde treadmill comes to the fore ------yet again