Posted on 03/23/2015 4:17:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Birds don't fly this high. Airplanes don't go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than human can even comprehend what is going on, nor could any human just a millennium ago. The launch of a rocket bound for space is an event that inspires awe and challenges description. Pictured above, an Atlas V rocket lifts off carrying NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission into Earth orbit 10 days ago to study the workings of the magnetosphere that surrounds and protects the Earth. From a standing start, the 300,000 kilogram rocket ship left to circle the Earth where the outside air is too thin to breathe. Rockets bound for space are now launched from somewhere on Earth about once a week.
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[Credit and Copyright: Ben Cooper (Launch Photography)]
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Was anyone else struck with the impression that the article was written by or for a 4th grader?
They’re trying to interest kids in something besides transgendering themselves, moslem outreach, occutardation, and white privilege.
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Technically it IS right. “The exosphere is the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere (i.e. the upper limit of the atmosphere). It extends from the exobase, which is located at the top of the thermosphere at an altitude of about 700 km above sea level, to about 10,000 km (6,200 mi; 33,000,000 ft). The exosphere merges with the emptiness of outer space, where there is no atmosphere.”
Actually, even space beyond the exosphere is not devoid of the occasional hydrogen atom, etc., so its a matter of deciding when to call it space.
To say the atmosphere is so thin you can’t breath in low earth orbit, is a bit of an understatement, wouldn’t you say?
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