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Posted by: XxZ SxX
think about it like a spaceship.
Can a spaceship go in space? so can a bullet go in space?
Can a spaceships thrusters fire in space? Would the spaceship go on forever until it hit something if it didnt use reverse thrusters to stop its motion? Do the thrusters firing make the spaceship go in the opposite direction?
in case you didn't know, the answer to all these is YES.
so, a gun could fire in space, provided it has gunpowder (which, as someone stated before, being an explosive, has an oxidizer in it) and enough oxygen to produce a spark. The bullet would go on forever once fired until it hits something, or very unlikely, melts from various radiation in space. And if you fire the gun, due to the lack of gravity and friction, you also would go flying in the opposite direction until you hit something or melted from heat/other radiation.
a better question would be, assuming complete vacuum with no gravity, if you fire a gun at eye level, would you fly straight backward, or would you rotate as well? This would depend on whether the gun would still kick in a direction other than straight back, like the up we are used to... o.O
If you were FLOATING in space, you´d just start rotating around your center of MASS with a speed in proportion to the amount of force being applied to you from the recoil, how far the location of application is away FROM the center of mass... There are a LOT of factors involved.
If you were standing on something with magnetic boots or belts or something, it´s the exact same thing, only then applied to THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE.