NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Prop-walk.
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2003 Apr 22, 22:40 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2003 Apr 22, 22:40 -0400
To extend the analogy with the fan in the room. After you've lowered the ceiling (and moved the walls in also), either the fan stops or the room starts to spin. In this instance, the room starts to spin. Like the bowl with the Mixmaster. We're holding the Mixmaster, or gravity, the boat, steady. But, as George said, the spinning water hits one side of the boat, but not the other, since it's rotating around the boat. So the boat moves sideways. No need to appeal to the higher authority of engineering texts.
