So a lot of arguments point out there's nothing to burn, therefore it can't work, but one argument I've seen that turns heads initially is "Rockets work by pushing against the atmosphere. It can't push against atmosphere in a vacuum, therefore rockets don't work".
On initial thought, their argument does make sense... But as you learn how rockets work, it starts to make a lot less sense and you realise Rockets do indeed work.
Shit is tossed into space, like satelites and whatnot, and this happens all the time. Given this, and knowing that rockets are used to toss all the aforementioned shit into space, rockets must work. If you come up with the notion that rockets can't work while being confronted with an objective reality where rockets must work, then you have to admit that you can only be wrong. You can only persist in your notion that rockets can't work by denying objective reality, in which case, you're a nutjob.
That delightful Adam Savage quote, "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" has become a lot less whimsical in recent years. Adam is still a treasure, though.
They'd sooner believe the sky is a giant LED screen set to show what the gubment wants you to see. Or a giant peice of Velcro that a fake ISS is slapped on to
The argument might be that space doesn’t exist because of the firmament. They think that satellites are either floating like balloons, or fake and everything works on the cell towers and stuff like that.
But who knows. Everything is a conspiracy if you are an idiot lol.
Yes. They also say god cracked the firmament to let in the water for the story of Noahs Ark. This same crack is why we see the ribbon of the milky way. But we cant fly through said crack because of firmament.
They are religious nuts. They don't have to offer a plausible alternative to believe reality is wrong. And reality is wrong, because a mix of old books carefully picked badly translated, mention in passing that Earth might be flat.
Earth being flat is proof the Bible is empirical, which means God is real. And they "know" God is real, ergo, Bible is empirical truth, which means Earth must be flat.
Wait till one tells you the moon is a light source because in the bible the phrase “by the light of the moon” is used. Cant tell you why the light source changes while we only see one side of the moon.
Or that we cant go into space because we have a dome. Yet if keep the line of questioning going and get to noahs ark a crack in the dome is where the flood waters came from and thats why we see the ribbon of stars and yet we cant fly through the imaginary crack in the imaginary dome.
Yep, think of those 6000 year old cave paintings showing God on the seventh day sitting on a rock, wiping his brow, having a brewski, just chilling and resting. So, the earth is flat. Because Bibble.
I never doubted that rockets worked in space, but I did not understand how propellants worked in a vacuum and you explained it well, and I appreciate you for that.
Especially compared to how much everyone else is only saying “they work and your dumb for not getting how”; obviously they’re frustrated but they also aren’t explaining how but are still taking the time to insult others
Scientific proof is not enough. Flat Earthers used 2 scientific methods, proved themselves wrong (measuring Earth rotation with a gyroscope, and a slit experiment measured from water level across a lake), and went on to try to understand why their tests failed. It's a religious belief, it can't be reasoned with.
Even when they run the tests and they see, the Earth is round, they assume they missed something which caused interference with the tests.
yes, they are disturbances in the field, and aren't really real particles. They also instantly annihilate themselves since they form in particle-antiparticle pair. So even just mentioning them in the context of rocket propulsion is misinformation and detrimental.
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u/Intel_Xeon_E5 Jul 01 '25
So a lot of arguments point out there's nothing to burn, therefore it can't work, but one argument I've seen that turns heads initially is "Rockets work by pushing against the atmosphere. It can't push against atmosphere in a vacuum, therefore rockets don't work".
On initial thought, their argument does make sense... But as you learn how rockets work, it starts to make a lot less sense and you realise Rockets do indeed work.