Derek Muller is a youtuber who has a popular channel called Veritationum on the platform where he likes to break down science for ordinary people.
Wikipedia described it as “Science Communicator, Film Maker, Television Personality, and Inventor”.
In May, he posted a video about Blackbird, a vehicle that runs on wind power.
He wants to know about whether there are wind-powered vehicles that can move faster than the wind itself for a sustainable time when sustaining and decided to ride in Blackbird and see for yourself.
This vehicle is the creation of Rick Cavallaro, a former Aerospace engineer, and his team and sponsored by Google and Energy Joby in 2010.
“I know this is a problem opposite you, when I go to the pilot.
Craft, I don’t understand how it works, “Muller said to people in business in a statement.
In a week he posted a video, Muller got an email from Alexander Kusenko, a physics professor at UCLA, that his claim must be wrong and vehicles such as Blackbird will violate the laws of physics.
Muller suggested a $ 10,000 bet on it, might think that the professor would not approve bets.
What surprised him, he agreed and even traced several big names in science like Bill Nye and Neil Degrasse Tyson by considering their opinions.
But Muller turned out to be true because the vehicle reached 27.7 mph in Windwind 10mph.
Professor must pay.
This is the video.
Back in 2010, Cavallaro and his team showed that the vehicle could travel down 2.8 times faster than wind, records confirmed by the North American Sea Association, added a report.