Is emission-less propulsion possible? I believe it is...

[mikelewis]

74. Well... if you say it... it must be so...

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Hard to argue with definitive statements... why back up anything with any real math...

And you are not wrong at all... momentum is always conserved... I am not breaking the laws here officer... I swear... I am well versed in most of them... when I'm sober 🤣

And GPT's answers... they are usually pretty off... it struggles with this concept for the exact same reasons you do... you have the exact right answer... I'm just saying you both are wrong. You're not seeing the problem clearly and I understand it's provocative... but you seem to understand angular momentum... so please take a moment with this before wading into war... I'm no wilting lilly and will probably get kicked off again for some nonsense or another... I am genuinely interested in hearing a real response... but I only want numbers... not declarative statements...

So to frame the debate...

You have a platform in space with no gravitational issues.

The platform has a battery, two railguns, two opposing tether systems to offset gyroscopic effects... and two capture points that are 180 degrees from the railgun.

Step 1

Fire into the tether...

Recoil pushes ship in direction a

Projectile in direction b


Step 2

Capture in tether and redirect 180 degrees in arc.

Ship direction A

Projectile Direction A


Step 3

Release tether... and combine forces...

....


So you start at 0 position... the recoil moves the ship, the projectile enters the arc... {mirrored forces prevent spin}... the arc is redirected 180 degrees and released into a magnet. I am not concerned with the mometum of the projectile... it's the ship... jerk that ship or platform or whatever back to position 0 and I will kneel before Zod.


{and please... model that shit in python if you can't figure out how to get AI to do your math properly... sometimes you have to yell at it, it's sort of dumb... but this is not hard stuff so python can handle it with no problem... }

[Also... please don't cut the radius... you won't like me when you cut the radius]