I just registered for this, and I'm hoping to get to meet a whole lot of you guys and gals. Let's all have fun, shall we? :D

Now, now, I wasn\'t intending on sounding smug or flamebaiting with that comment - that was an honest opinion. :)

But hey, speaking of basic physics, you\'re right with the fact that a car IS pulling against gravity. After all, every action has an equal and opposite reaction right? So, there actually IS a pull. BUT there also is a PUSH.

The thing is, I don\'t think you actually *pulled* on your fingers to type in that last comment of yours. In the same manner that a car doesn\'t PULL on gravity to PUSH down metal plates.

While there actually are two opposing forces at work here, pardon me when I say that you\'re wrong about which one is doing the energy we\'re talking about here. A car \"pulls itself away\" from gravity to keep its shape - when objects can\'t do that enough, that\'s when they get crushed by their own weight. However, the metal plates get pressed because the car is pushing on them - which is due to gravity\'s pull.