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DDWFTTW Debunked?!
8 min readJul 7, 2021
A Saga of Directly Downwind Faster Than The Wind!
TL;DR
Events!
- Derek from Veritasium made a video about how DDWFTTW is possible!
- DDWFTTW is the abbreviation for going Directly Downwind Faster Than The Wind itself. this has been a hot topic of discussion for a long time and for apparent reasons!
- Then, a UCLA professor, Alex Kusenko disputed the achievement claim and accepted a bet proposed by Derek Muller.
- He later conceded the claim and transferred the Somme to Derek.
- I still couldn’t see how it could work, tried to debunk it, but ended up debunking myself more than anything else!
Unlike either of these gentlemen, I’m not a physicist, but from my limited knowledge, I thought that Alex was right and I didn’t quiet understand why he conceded the wager, so I expressed my opinion on Twitter and got attacked by people and, somehow, was even compared to…