Take a Match is a science fictionshort story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in Robert Silverberg's 1972 anthology New Dimentions II and reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. ... At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Robert Silverberg (January 15, 1935, Brooklyn, New York) is a prolific American author best known for writing science fiction, a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. ... Buy Jupiter and Other Stories is a 1954 collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov. ...
A spaceship is stranded between the stars but out of distance of the interstellar gases that it requires as fuel. The Fusionist, a highly sensitive and eccentric individual who is in charge of the ship's power, is unwilling to try any alternative methods of gathering fuel. A school teacher travelling as a passenger suspects what the trouble is and realises, from his experience of teaching children, that there is an alternative; that of utilising the 'primitive' technology of chemical combustion. He manages to convey his idea via a pretty female passenger to the Fusionist, who successfully tries it. Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta probe on 2nd of March, 2004. ...
Take one match and wrap a small piece of aluminum foil around the match-head.
Ignite the match by holding a second lighted match under the foil until its combustion temperature is reached.
The exhaust of the fire products from the burning match (smoke and gas) is the "action" and the movement of the rocket in the other direction is the 'reaction.' The action thrust is produced when the match burns in an enclosed environment.
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