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Originally posted by daniel_g
If you were able to do that, you would accelerate just a bit faster than a hot air baloon(hot air baloon reduces mass per unit volume, vacuum is nothing more than 0 mass per unit vomule).
In other words, the force produced by the atmosphere is not very big. Otherwise, you would see older TVs flying everywhere(since they contain a vacuun tube).
Also, being in vacuum doesn't eliminate G-forces. If you were floating in space(vacuum), and an asteroid hit you at 10,000mph, you would expect to die, wouldn't you? Same principle with G-Forces. If your body was inside a spacecraft, and it accelerated from 0 to 10,000mph in a very short period of time, it would be exactly the same as the asteroid hitting you regardless of if you are in vacuum or not.
[edit on 10-3-2008 by daniel_g]
I read about an alien encounter where the aliens said that
their propulsion system-(when they were in a planet's atmosphere) was
to create an external vacuum in the direction they wanted to go and the
entire atmosphere of the planet as a whole pushed them.
Not only would this account for the abrupt right-angle turns but it would also make sense that you would want your planetary probe ships to be orbs or geometric derivations on the sphere such as disks to give you an easier 360 degree directional drive system.
Originally posted by GoldenGalaxy
UFO's do make abrupt right angle turns at unbelievable speeds.
What is your theory on how they do this?