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Message Subject This is why rockets do not work in space
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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The exhaust isn't freely expanding, its being forced mostly in one direction.

Put an explosion next to a ball in space and the ball will be hit be and moved by the gases.

Same thing happens inside the rocket but even more efficiently with a good nozzle.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46086820


No it's not, it is is expanding. Combustion reaction creates pressure which is the released. You can ignore math and just take NASA's word for it, but you will still be wrong
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 53414656


Newton invented The Method of Fluxions.

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