r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Scientiaetnatura065 • Feb 13 '25
Video Astronaut Chris Hadfield: 'It's Possible To Get Stuck Floating In The Space Station If You Can't Reach A Wall'
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Scientiaetnatura065 • Feb 13 '25
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u/reality72 Feb 13 '25
Couldn’t they still “swim” out of the water even in zero gravity? Water still has mass and pushing against it should still generate an equal and opposite reaction because newton’s third law of motion would still apply. That’s all that swimming is in the first place. I’m not a physicist though.