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the universe's only way of saying yes by pushing back against no
means To push something forcefully and suddenly in a particular direction, or the forward force that results from such a push.
from From Old Norse 'þrysta,' to thrust or press, carried into English by Norse settlers and speakers. It's a blunt, muscular word from the start — the kind of term that sounds like the act it names. Over centuries it kept its physical shove while branching out: the thrust of a sword, the thrust of an argument, and eventually the thrust of an engine, where it became the precise word for the force that drives rockets and jets against the pull of everything trying to hold them down.
- newton's third
- every action shoves an equal opposite into existence
- rocket trick
- throws mass backward to fall upward forever
- jet engines
- air goes in angry, comes out furious
- swordplay term
- the lunge that ends arguments permanently
- plate tectonics
- continents thrust mountains skyward over millions of years
spacex merlin engine — produces 190,000 lbf per engine on falcon 9 rockets
saturn v f-1 engine — 1.5 million lbf per engine, largest single-nozzle liquid-fueled engine ever flown (apollo program)
rolls-royce trent 900 — 70,000 lbf per engine, powers the airbus a380