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To: jimmyray

Of course. You ask this seriously? C’mon FRiend!


66 posted on 06/23/2017 5:32:01 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

I know that. I was replying to Sontag’s post above to a YouTube link containing the half-baked idea that “Thrust not possible in a vacuum:”


67 posted on 06/23/2017 5:37:41 AM PDT by jimmyray (there is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse)
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To: lefty-lie-spy; Sontagged

The intention being to gain a recognizence that for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. The ejection of the bullet from the barrel of the gun cause an equal and opposite reaction on the mass of the gun self. Thus, ejection of gas from a container causes an opposite reaction on the container, vacuum or not, because gas has a mass.


68 posted on 06/23/2017 5:40:41 AM PDT by jimmyray (there is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse)
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