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would it be possible for a drunk in a void to change his rotation?
by empath75 9y ago
would it be possible for a drunk in a void to change his rotation?
- dmikalova 9y agoYou could blow in one direction or the other, at an angle. The air you push away will push you the other way.
- philipov 9y agoIf you're suspended in a fluid or gas, you're not in a void.
- madaxe_again 9y agoWell, if he had a lungful if air, blowing would work - after all, rockets do work in a vacuum. That said, he’s drunk, so the answer is to piss into the luminiferous aether.
- scatters 9y agoNo, because angular momentum is conserved, assuming flat space. It is possible to change one's orientation, however.
- CydeWeys 9y agoThe story is phrased in a way that is delicately subtle, and thus elides the mechanism whereby the drunk can change his rotation. Here's a hint: It's relevant that the person is drunk. Another hint: Newton's third law.
- madaxe_again 9y agoI call it my inbuilt vectoring urea reaction engine.
- Simon_says 9y agoSince you're the only thing in this hypothetical universe, you better make sure your urea makes it to escape velocity (which shouldn't be hard), otherwise you'll make it rain.
- twic 9y agoYes. He can use the gyroscopic effect of his head spinning.