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John Mallinckrodt wrote:
... After all, who
among us--other than, perhaps, myself (and I'm not so sure about
that)--is flexible enough to accommodate the notion that the boater
does work on herself.
The boater does work on the boater. In more detail, various parts
of the boater do work on the other parts.
This hardly seems like a feat of flexibility; it seems
like the only reasonable way to approach the issue.
This is the Nth reincarnation of the "skater" question.
http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/physics/car-go.htm#sec-skater