Reply #5: How the heck can an A-3 with a 72 foot wingspan fit thru a 16 ft hole? [View All]

The A-3 is not some small fighter jet similar to an F-16. It's a large, shoulder wing airplane with side by side seating for the crew, 22 feet tall. And they never built this plane with JT8D _turbofan_ engines - Those skinny little nacelles were fitted with J57 turbojets. Here's a tanker version fuelling a pair of A4Ds which are similar in size to the F-16 (shorter and maybe taller).



Fetzer even botches his example of phsyical impossibility. Contrary to his claim it _is_ possible for water to exist as a liquid below 32F at standard conditions if the water is still and has no place to start growing ice crystals (see http://symp15.nist.gov/pdf/p697.pdf for experimental data sjowing supercooling of ~5C):

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More interesting than logical necessities, possibilities and impossibilities, however, are physical necessities, possibilities and impossibilities.7 These are determined in relation to the laws of nature, which, unlike laws of society, cannot be violated, cannot be changed, and require no enforcement.8 If (pure) water freezes at 32° F at sea level atmospheric pressure, for example, then it is physically necessary for a sample of (pure) water to freeze when its temperature falls below 32° F at that pressure. Analogously, under those same conditions, that a sample of (pure) water would not freeze when its temperature falls below 32° F is physically impossible. And when a sample of (pure) water is not frozen at that pressure, it is justifiable to infer that it is therefore not at a temperature below its freezing point of 32° F.
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