Message from @racecartacocat

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2019-08-28 03:42:04 UTC  

space isn't a perfect vacuum

2019-08-28 03:42:08 UTC  

extreme pressure differential

2019-08-28 03:42:13 UTC  

no large area in the universe is

2019-08-28 03:42:25 UTC  

no but there's not a huge difference in pressure

2019-08-28 03:42:39 UTC  

simply put

2019-08-28 03:42:45 UTC  

if you go up to 100km

2019-08-28 03:42:51 UTC  

which is around where space is agreed to begin

2019-08-28 03:42:56 UTC  

but still has a thin atmosphere

2019-08-28 03:43:01 UTC  

it's not like

2019-08-28 03:43:09 UTC  

the air is pressurized at one atmosphere

2019-08-28 03:43:16 UTC  

and then immediately switches to a near perfect vacuum

2019-08-28 03:43:21 UTC  

^

2019-08-28 03:43:25 UTC  

There is stuff

2019-08-28 03:43:29 UTC  

Then there is less stuff

2019-08-28 03:43:32 UTC  

gravitational attraction pulls gases toward the earth, and the compression forces from the gasses on top

2019-08-28 03:43:32 UTC  

Then there is no stuff

2019-08-28 03:43:40 UTC  

provide higher pressure at sea level

2019-08-28 03:43:42 UTC  

That’s how our atmosphere works

2019-08-28 03:43:50 UTC  

and with less gas on top the higher up you go, the lower the pressure

2019-08-28 03:44:29 UTC  

in fact, the earth's atmosphere may extend, at an indescribably small thinness, hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from sea level

2019-08-28 03:44:43 UTC  

But you get to a point in deep space

2019-08-28 03:44:48 UTC  

where the amount of matter in a given space

2019-08-28 03:45:11 UTC  

is so miniscule, that the degradation it causes in movement and orbits is negligible over any reasonable amount of time

2019-08-28 03:45:35 UTC  

in fact, the ISS has to perform periodical boosts to keep its orbit high enough every couple months

2019-08-28 03:45:49 UTC  

as it loses 2-4 m/s in that time frame from orbital degradation

2019-08-28 03:46:12 UTC  

as they are only I think 450 km or so above the surface, so there's still a little bit of atmosphere to be slowed down

2019-08-28 03:46:42 UTC  

The propellant is an oxidizer and creates its own chemical reaction to produce thrust.

2019-08-28 03:46:54 UTC  

but geosynchronous satellites, which are around 1500 km up, are more subject to gravitational forces from the moon than the atmosphere

2019-08-28 03:46:58 UTC  

it's basic physics

2019-08-28 03:48:06 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/538929818834698260/616116776593391628/Screenshot_20190221-114107.png

2019-08-28 03:48:31 UTC  

did you not

2019-08-28 03:48:32 UTC  

listen

2019-08-28 03:48:36 UTC  

to a single word that we just said

2019-08-28 03:48:45 UTC  

The largest vacuum chamber on earth takes 3 days to depressurize

2019-08-28 03:48:51 UTC  

Remember, if it doesn’t appeal to what you believe in, it’s automatically not real. @racecartacocat

2019-08-28 03:48:57 UTC  

and even then it doesn't compare to space.

2019-08-28 03:49:03 UTC  

well guess what

2019-08-28 03:49:10 UTC  

so

2019-08-28 03:49:15 UTC  

I double promise you, You won't have thrust of any kind

2019-08-28 03:49:19 UTC  

there is a photo that has a gradient

2019-08-28 03:49:22 UTC  

one, that analogy is completely unrelated and two, the earth has existed for 4 billion years my guy