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[ret5hd]

1. Jet engines don't. Rockets use an oxiddizer/fuel mix.

[ret5hd]

11. What would an illustration of a jet engine not working look like?

[hack89]

2. Here is a good link.

http://www.explainthatstuff.com/spacerockets.html

[hack89]

4. Google Newton's Third law and find an image.

it is not that fucking hard.

[hack89]

6. Why didn't you simply type your original question into Google?

that is what I did. I swore because either you are extremely lazy or playing stupid games. I don't have the patience for either.

[hack89]

9. Did you read and understand the link I sent you?

why do you need a pretty picture to understand the basic concept?

[hack89]

10. Funny - when I go to google I get plenty of pictures

do you understand how to do google searches?

[hack89]

14. Do you believe that rockets work in space?

is that your issue? This is basic science - I am puzzled why you can't find any pictures.

[hack89]

16. How about I teach you how to use Google

it will spare you embarrassment in the future.

[arcane1]

19. Results for a Google image search for "how does a rocket engine work"

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=822&bih=617&q=how+rocket+engines+work&oq=how+rocket+en&gs_l=img.1.0.0.2098.4372.0.6048.13.8.0.5.5.0.116.738.6j2.8.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.62.img..0.13.753.sfvsSOi1IEU

[arcane1]

22. It works in space too. Atmosphere isn't needed.

[arcane1]

26. My link has thousands of pictures showing exactly that.

[arcane1]

39. Why would atmosphere be needed? The oxygen is on-board.

[Nitram]

20. Like this?

[arcane1]

28. Fine, here is a NASA picture.

These pictures are not hard to find, I don't know why you insist on us doing the clicking for you

[arcane1]

32. There are thousands of drawings and diagrams in my link. Take a look!

[arcane1]

35. One more post. You can stop being lazy and lookup the rest yourself.

This one even has a simplified explanation anyone can understand.




You're welcome

[arcane1]

38. Show evidence an atmosphere is needed.

You're side-stepping.

[arcane1]

18. It's impossible to post a picture of a jet engine working without air.

[arcane1]

27. You know what a jet engine is, right?

It's an air pump.

[arcane1]

30. Air pumps need air in order to, you know, pump it.

It's kinda relevant to their operation.

[bananas]

42. The rocket creates its own atmosphere to push against.

If I understand your question, you're asking how a rocket can work without anything to push against.
Rockets use either solid or liquid fuel.
The fuel is burned, forming an extremely hot gas.
This gas rapidly expands and pushes against the rocket nozzle.
In effect, this gas is the "atmosphere" the rocket is pushing against.

Here are photos of Apollo 8's trans-lunar injection, you can see the exhaust gasses expanding behind the rocket, pushing the rocket towards the moon:

The first post-launch sightings are represented by a spectacular series of predawn photographs, shown at right, from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) station on Maui (courtesy Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory). The first one shows the TLI burn near 15:44 UT on December 21. As the spacecraft passed Hawaii, the changing perspective put the camera view looking up the sunlit exhaust plume. For various missions, TLI took place between 2 hours 50 minutes and 3 hours 12 minutes after launch (1.5-2.1 revolutions). John Stonesifer, NASA Recovery Team Leader, deployed to the South Pacific aboard the carrier USS Yorktown, both for planned recovery and in case of early mission abort. He reports that the crew had an excellent view of TLI from the carrier deck (and that a similar sight was visible from the Hornet for Apollo 11). He notes somewhat ruefully that "My biggest disappointment was that with all the NASA photographers aboard as part of our team we did not get any photographs of the sightings".

[bananas]

45. Here's a NASA webpage with some helpful graphics

http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/TRCRocket/rocket_principles.html

Rocket Principles

<snip>

One of the interesting facts about the historical development of rockets is that while rockets and rocket-powered devices have been in use for more than two thousand years, it has been only in the last three hundred years that rocket experimenters have had a scientific basis for understanding how they work.

<snip>



When the cannon is fired, an explosion propels a cannon ball out the open end of the barrel. It flies a kilometer or two to its target. At the same time the cannon itself is pushed backward a meter or two. This is action and reaction at work (third law). The force acting on the cannon and the ball is the same.

<snip>

Let's apply this principle to a rocket. Replace the mass of the cannon ball with the mass of the gases being ejected out of the rocket engine. Replace the mass of the cannon with the mass of the rocket moving in the other direction. Force is the pressure created by the controlled explosion taking place inside the rocket's engines. That pressure accelerates the gas one way and the rocket the other.

<snip>

[zappaman]

47. Why?

Maybe if you told us what you were trying to prove or disprove?

[hack89]

48. I think he is a Moon Landing Truther. nt

[zappaman]

49. No, those people don't really exist anymore.

No one is that...