FabSwingers.com > Forums > The Lounge > Can a flame exist past the karman line or vacuum border?
Can a flame exist past the karman line or vacuum border?
Jump to: Newest in thread
 |
By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
|
If you were to fire a giant flamethrower at the karman line, would the flame still be there past the line?
And if you were to fire a flamethrower from an oxygen rich to a complete vacuum space, would the flame just cut off completely? |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Depends what it is you're burning...rockets can still fire in space 
Yes but rockets have their own oxygen supply stored inside them."
Does your flamethrower?  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
|
"Depends what it is you're burning...rockets can still fire in space
Yes but rockets have their own oxygen supply stored inside them.
Does your flamethrower? "
It has nitrogen, but I'm talking about firing the flamethrower from within our atmosphere into space as opposed to firing it in space. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Depends what it is you're burning...rockets can still fire in space
Yes but rockets have their own oxygen supply stored inside them.
Does your flamethrower?
It has nitrogen, but I'm talking about firing the flamethrower from within our atmosphere into space as opposed to firing it in space."
Then there's effect of the rotation of the earth to contend with and if the flame would even break the atmosphere... Nah, this is making my little old brain hurt... I give up! |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
|
"The flame itself isn’t the point of ignition, so as long as the burning fuel is still in an oxygen rich environment the flame can be in a vacuum"
I know, that's how rockets work.
Flame is the end product but it still needs fuel to stay alive. There would be no fuel for it to stay alive in a vacuum. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
|
"Question is ... How would you separate the oxygen area from the no oxygen area . Would it be like in old school restaurants where they just put smoking and no smoking signs up "
Let's assume it's a hypothetical scenario. Because let's be honest, Elon is not building a huge not flamethrower anytime soon. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
|
"I'd say the flame would go into the vacuum area until the fuel was burned up but if you was constantly firing the flame it would constantly have the fuel to keep it going "
Yeah I was just thinking about this in the shower and I imagine since there is velocity to the flame, it would enter the vacuum but almost immediately die down, creating a sort of flacid looking flame? |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
» Add a new message to this topic
