# Plane on a treadmill has gone viral!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-on-a-treadmill-has-gone-viral/621392>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 9, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-on-a-treadmill-has-gone-viral/621392 "2012-05-09T14:44:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![fighting\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-on-a-treadmill-has-gone-viral/621392/1 "2012-05-09T14:44:05Z")

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NOOOOOOOOO!!!

[http://thumb.it/vote/201219a284b7618aaf44f3](http://thumb.it/vote/201219a284b7618aaf44f3)

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-on-a-treadmill-has-gone-viral/621392/2 "2012-05-09T15:51:27Z")

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There’s a slight difference between “existing in two separate places on the internet” and “gone viral”.

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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-on-a-treadmill-has-gone-viral/621392/3 "2012-05-09T16:09:00Z")

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> [@Smeghead](#):
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> There’s a slight difference between “existing in two separate places on the internet” and “gone viral”.

It went viral a long time ago. Hell, even Mythbusters has done it. Doing a Google search, I got as far as “Plane on…” before Google finished it for me.

My question is: Did we start that shit?

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**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-on-a-treadmill-has-gone-viral/621392/4 "2012-05-09T16:48:56Z")

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The meme did not start on the SDMB.

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-on-a-treadmill-has-gone-viral/621392/5 "2012-05-09T16:51:46Z")

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> [@Absolute](#):
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> The meme did not start on the SDMB.

Correct. It always amuses me how much stuff that people think originated here.

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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-on-a-treadmill-has-gone-viral/621392/6 "2012-05-09T16:52:41Z")

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> [@Absolute](#):
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> The meme did not start on the SDMB.

I don’t know what board it originally started at, but I do know I brought it here from a forum about, of all things, computer mods.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-on-a-treadmill-has-gone-viral/621392/7 "2012-05-11T00:47:27Z")

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> [@bouv](#):
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> I don’t know what board it originally started at, but I do know I brought it here from a forum about, of all things, computer mods.

[Wait, that only dates back to 2005 on here? I didn’t realize that.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=348452)