You can stop trying to bring the atmosphere into almost every statement. It is not part of the discussion.
Deal with what is happening in a hypothetical perfect vacuum.
Then move on an apply that to an incredibly low pressure environment (a very good vacuum) like space.
It's got scattered little particles in it that just float about hasn't it, in the story?
How about you stop with the stories and focus on reality?
You know, an honest representation of space, rather than you repeated strawmen to pretend it can't be real?
In space, real space, there are molecules, moving around quite quickly, but there are so few, they offer negligible resistance.
In the solar system, the general trend of the molecules is to be moving away from the sun as part of the solar wind. This has lead to the idea of making a solar sail. This is a structure intentionally made to be very large and very light, to be able to use the solar wind to move through space away from the sun.
But this does mean rockets, which don't use solar sails, bring fuel and oxidiser (or something else like that) with them, and will expel part of them to change their moption (other than the change due to gravity).
Yes I stand by what I say. No resistance, no movement, meaning no existence.
And do you accept the logical implications of that?
Either the gas remains magically trapped inside an open container, or the container provides resistance for the gas to push off, with the container and gas both moving as a result?
Always but it has to be an entirety of resistance, not just a few molecules of gas against nothing.
It isn't a few molecules of gas against nothing.
The pressurised gas is using the container, and the container is using the pressurised gas.
For a rocket, the large difference in mass of the 2 means the gas accelerates much more than the rocket.
Once you allow a gas to expand from a container it needs to hit something to allow that gas to have a reaction on that rocket.
No, we don't.
Again, the issue is how it expands from the container in the first place.
As you have stated, this expansion (which would be movement) requires resistance.
That means there must be something for the gas to push against to be able to expand.
The only thing offered here is the rocket.
That means the gas pushes against the rocket to expand in the first place.
No outside atmosphere is needed at all.
Not in fictional space it doesn't.
Then tell us what magic happens in this fictional space of a perfect vacuum (as opposed to real space with an extremely low pressure making it a very good vacuum but not perfect).
Tell us what the gas is pushing/resisting against to be able to expand out of the container, or tell us that in your fantasy it needs to remain magically trapped inside an open container.
Correct.
So you are saying that in a perfect vacuum, if you placed a container full of gas at high pressure, but open at one end; the highly pressurised gas will magically remain inside this container?
If you truly think that, then clearly state it so there is no ambiguity at all and so you can't later try to twist out of it.
To accept rockets working in a nothing environment that space is told to be in terms of pressure, is to accept sci-fi as some kind of truth
No, accepting rockets work in space would be accepting reality. Accepting the simple principle of action and reaction.
Claiming they don't work requires believing in pure fantasy.
I'm picking the honest one of rockets and anything else requiring atmosphere in order to work.
You mean you are picking the standard dishonest BS of avoiding the issue entirely.
You were provided 3 options for a hypothetical.
The atmosphere has nothing to do with it.
We are discussing a hypothetical of a container full of compressed gas in an otherwise perfect vacuum, with one end open.
The 3 options you have:
1 - reality - The gas uses the container as resistance, pushing off the container to expand, meaning it pushes the container to move it.
2 - Fantasy magic containment - There is no resistance for the gas to push off, so it magically remains trapped in an open container.
3 - Fantasy magic movement - There is no resistance needed, the gas just magically accelerates without pushing off anything or using anything as resistance.
Care to try to be honest and pick one?
It'll work in low pressure but not in a fictional vacuum.
So it will work in a vacuum, just not a perfect vacuum which you want to pretend is the only possible vacuum even though you claim it isn't possible.
And that means things like rockets would work in space, i.e. a real vacuum, rather than a perfect vacuum.
Other than perfect vacuums not existing, what magic would stop it?
Is it that it wouldn't ignite in the initially air tight cartridge?
Or is it that it would ignite, so you have highly pressurised gas sitting between a lead bullet and the gun, with no way out other than by pushing the bullet along the barrel; but due to the vacuum it is magically contained?
If we consider the bullet, on one side of it we have a very large pressure trying to push it along the gun, and on the other side we have nothing at all.
You certainly seem to be treating a perfect vacuum more like a magical environment which provides whatever pressure is needed to result in no net force; magically providing whatever resistance is needed to make motion impossible.
Surely the more honest approach is to consider a real vacuum (i.e. a low pressure environment) and see how the resistance drops with decreasing pressure, and extrapolating that to no pressure against the bullet acting to slow it down.
But such an honest approach would mean admitting rockets do work in space, so it is clear why you would never do that.
What I say will obviously be thrown out by people like yourself. Don't think I'm under any illusions about that.
You certainly seem to be under illusions about it.
The reason your delusional BS is discarded is because it doesn't work. You can't explain anything. You can't defend your BS against any rational argument.
Instead of accepting that, you invent all sorts of elaborate illusions about us to pretend we are the problem.
My explanations are fine for those who have the ability to nibble away and actually delve a little.
And the big part there is "a little".
To anyone who delves too much, your nonsense falls apart.
They only work for those that take a superficial glance because they desperately want to pretend it works.
For anyone honestly looking at it, thinking deeply about it, they very quickly realise it makes no sense and doesn't work at all.
Your idea is to simply argue against anything that questions mainstream ideals
See, this is the kind of illusion you have constructed.
If you were honest, you would recognise I have went directly against some people presenting mainstream ideals.
I argue against BS.
Never will be for you.
Because unlike you I care about having a model which works to explain reality and which matches reality.
You just care about rejecting the RE at all costs.
How about you try to do that and see where it takes you?
I have.
All the evidence points to a round Earth, attractive forces and free space.
I have explained plenty of that to you, and you just dismiss it.