A friend and I have been having an ongoing debate for years. We were at a pub on a wharf, watching shipping container ships and cruise ships come into dock, and he posed the question. With no wind, no waves, perfect conditions, could he move the ship at all?
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If you were floating on the water next to the boat and push youself away wouldn’t the boat technically also have to move a tiny bit. (If you push yourself away from something the same weight of you, you and the object should both move the same distance, if it weighs twice as much it moves half the distance you do so a boat weighing no matter how much will always move a no matter how little distance right?)
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