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Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace

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On 21/05/2017 12:20 AM, AbhiJeet Patil wrote:

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> Suppose we are standing on ground. I am at point A and you are at
> point B. And we both are pulling each other with EQUAL FORCE. I am
> not moving, but you move from your place. That is violation of
> Newton's third law of motion. You allege that my legs are somehow dug
> in the ground. Now we have changed our places. I am standing at your
> previous point B and you are standing at point my previous point A.
> Now even at standing at point B, I am not moving. What happened to
> your theory that my legs were somehow dug in the ground at point A?

This doesn't violate Newton's third law, because friction with the 
ground brings the Earth into the equation.

The situation you describe can easily arise, just because we are not of 
equal weights, and consequently have different levels of friction with 
the ground. This is, after all, why you can push a coffee cup away from 
you across a table without yourself getting moved backwards.

Sylvia.

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Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-04-23 10:09 +1000
  Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace AbhiJeet Patil <abhiriksh@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 22:08 -0700
    Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-05-19 20:26 +1000
      Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace AbhiJeet Patil <abhiriksh@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 07:01 -0700
        Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 11:56 -0500
          Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace AbhiJeet Patil <abhiriksh@gmail.com> - 2017-05-20 07:12 -0700
            Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 13:19 -0500
              Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace AbhiJeet Patil <abhiriksh@gmail.com> - 2017-07-03 22:43 -0700
              Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace AbhiJeet Patil <abhiriksh@gmail.com> - 2017-07-03 22:57 -0700
        Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-05-20 11:42 +1000
          Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace AbhiJeet Patil <abhiriksh@gmail.com> - 2017-05-20 07:20 -0700
            Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-05-21 10:03 +1000
              Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2017-05-20 21:51 -0400
                Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-05-21 11:54 +1000
                Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2017-05-20 22:23 -0400
              Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace AbhiJeet Patil <abhiriksh@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 05:31 -0700
                Re: Reactionless Action Mechanism for Aerospace Serg io <invalid@invalid.com> - 2017-05-21 09:47 -0500

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