Ionic Propulsion Experiment Analysis

What is this?

Okay, so this is, um, ionic propulsion, okay?

So it's, it's got a little spindle, and it's got two crafts that are basically

pushing off the air. Okay? Now he puts this,

um, basically in a vacuum chamber, and it does... It has air in it now.

So what he's gonna do is he's gonna suck all the air out.

You can see on the gauge there, the air's going lower and lower, and

when it

reaches a vacuum, a really good vacuum in there,

it starts to stop.

It, it doesn't have any air to push off

anymore, and you can see it

eventually completely stops.

Um, it's just running off the motion it had

now,

and then it will eventually completely stop.

What's the, what, what's the mechanism of propulsion you

said?

Ionic propulsion.

So what, what is it doing? It's, it's shooting electrons out of the-

Sh- shooting it, shooting ions out. Ions, yeah.

Well, ions are... Okay. All right. Yeah, yeah.

So now what he's gonna do is he's gonna reintroduce air into the

tank,

and then it's gonna start up again.

It's gonna start

pushing off the air again, right? So now you can clearly see it doesn't have

any

air to push off,

and it's completely stopped.

So this debunks,

even if we grant you the vacuum, space travel is fake. It can't happen.

It's, it's impossible. You can't push off nothing.

So I'm just gonna speed it up to where he puts the... There you go.

He introduces air.

So the third, yeah, Newton's, Newton's third law,

this, yeah, this is kind of, uh, contrary to that.

Exactly. You can't push off yourself.

If you're on a skateboard, you can't push your chest to move.

You, you need to push off something.

Well, that's fascinating actually.

That's, um,

it's a good experiment for a physics lab just to...

But you need a very large vacuum chamber and then maybe just like a little, like

a small rocket. It doesn't even have to be a rocket,

it could just be

a compressed air cylinder

that, that it would-

Exactly. It's been, it's been done.

Yeah. Really. I'm gonna, I'm gonna... I'll, I'll, I'll YouTube that.

That's actually quite fascinating.