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According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, the Earth's atmosphere weighs one millionth of the Earth's mass. 0.5% can't be enough to stop rotating it, or it needs
by tgv 3y ago
According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, the Earth's atmosphere weighs one millionth of the Earth's mass. 0.5% can't be enough to stop rotating it, or it needs a lot more explanation than "propellant."
- aerio 3y agoSorry, some of the superscript got stripped out when copy/pasting to HN. The actual calculation is below: >2.6 x 1021²¹ kilograms (5.7 x 1021²¹ pounds) of propellant They don't say what propellant though, but I assume whatever kind of jet fuel they used at the time.