And this second video (saved but not transcribed) is Arnie's wonderful outburst. Stamatis said that after class he said that ET was wonderful and he was going to use it with his 9th graders - so I think that's evidence of my during-observation feeling that he was being positive when he said that ET is what showed him that the ideas were lunacy:
Here is Arny's outburst (full transcript is uploaded): Well, I'm I've just gotta tell you the longer i watch this thing and listen to this discussion i think this this thing about the ground flexing and throwing the car forward is the biggest red herring i have ever seen come up in the minds of a bunch of really bright people (laughter - someone says 'wow that's harsh') and it just like once it got created it it kind of got a life of its own, and i i and i want to go back there to something that chuck said what is, in real time where is the mechanism for the road to compress and release, where is that thing. i mean i can see the truck tire up there on the dragster truck, when the truck is overcoming its initial inertia so it that's at the starting line. later on that tire is not going to be deformed anything like that as the truck travels down the roadway and i can imagine are we going to imagine a rubber tire deforming? so if you deform the asphalt road, guess what, well it's going to stay there and now you've deformed the asphalt road and now it's back here, it's not going to somehow magically impart energy back to the tire going forward, i just think this is nuts (laughter) and i'll and i'll tell ya you know what convinced me? energy theater. it's convinced me that this is pure lunacy, this thing about the road throwing the vehicle forward.
Notice again the mechanism issue plays a huge role here. He's saying WHERE IS THAT THING - he needs a THING to be the mechanism...
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