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[BananaStand]

I'm not understanding it at all right now. I'm hoping mojo can explain this in inertial terms so I can get my head around it.

I'm kind of focusing in on the part where if you push an atom, it moves toward you. And I'm envisioning US satellites firing something at North Korean missiles that makes them fly upwards and off into space.

[OngBonga]

I'm kind of focusing in on the part where if you push an atom, it moves toward you. And I'm envisioning US satellites firing something at North Korean missiles that makes them fly upwards and off into space.

Obviously this is speculation because I have no fucking idea what we're even talking about, but I'm assuming that the amount of force required to propel something is the same... just in the opposite direction. So I'm not sure it has potential applications when it comes to propulsion.

For argument's sake, let's say it takes 100 of energy to propel something into orbit, with the force applied underneath the object. Well, we still need 100 energy, we just apply the force to the top instead.

However, the term "fuck knows" keeps popping into my head.