If a spaceship had a flag, would it wave as the spaceship moved through space?
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If the ship was accelerating, it would “hang” toward the back of the ship, as if it was hanging down from a horizontal pole on Earth, with no wind. When the ship stopped accelerating, it would spring forward a bit, from released tension, but would then float freely until it reached a point where no forces were acting on it, where it would stay.
It’s also possible that it might wave a bit from the impact of random particles, but that would be almost undetectable. The density of gas in a very, very dense nebula is about 1,000,000,000,000 times less than our atmosphere, and the vast majority of space is far more empty than that.
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