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Earth's Atmosphere 'Far Larger' than Scientists Had Believed
PJ Media ^ | FEBRUARY 23, 2019 | MICHAEL WALSH

Posted on 02/23/2019 7:32:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Whoops!

The Earth's atmosphere is far bigger than we had realized, scientists have announced. The outermost part of our atmosphere reaches nearly twice as far as the Moon and is about 50 times as big as our own planet, new research has shown. “The Moon flies through Earth’s atmosphere,” says Igor Baliukin of Russia’s Space Research Institute, lead author of the paper presenting the results. “We were not aware of it until we dusted off observations made over two decades ago by the SOHO spacecraft.”

At the boundary of own atmosphere and outer space, there is a cloud of hydrogen atoms that scientists refer to as the geocorona. One of the instruments on the SOHO spacecraft found the signature of that border, allowing it to detect exactly where it is. That can only be done at certain times, and the new research is the result of fortunate timing that allowed the spacecraft to spot the edge.

Well, as Hamlet says, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." For decades now the anti-industrial Left has been trying to convince us that the atmospheric science is settled -- that the planet is either getting hotter, colder, or both, or neither, or something -- and therefore we should accept their cocksure-yet-crackpot notions in order to give up our carbon-based lifestyles (never mind that we ourselves are carbon-based life forms; the Left is essentially a suicide cult), become vegans, murder our children, and die.

Now along comes this new discovery, and suddenly it's plain to see that there's still much so we don't know about just about everything.

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


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21 posted on 02/23/2019 8:20:41 PM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: TigersEye

Awesome


22 posted on 02/23/2019 8:22:20 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“They can smell the cow farts on the moon” Alexandria Occasional-Cortex


23 posted on 02/23/2019 8:23:40 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: BenLurkin

The dots. I connected them. :)


24 posted on 02/23/2019 8:26:48 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

polar bear population explosion - so holding baby bears hostage isn’t going to work anymore. Sorry. Try seals. More bears mean less seals. So seals are the ‘in’ hostages nowadays.


25 posted on 02/23/2019 8:27:21 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

FTA: The outermost part of our atmosphere reaches nearly twice as far as the Moon and is about 50 times as big as our own planet

Whoa! you mean the astronauts did not need to wear a helmet all this time?.....


26 posted on 02/23/2019 8:36:06 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Damn, and all my life I thought the Apollo astronauts at least made it out of Earth’s atmosphere.


27 posted on 02/23/2019 8:46:42 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I knew it!

The Left has found a way to include us ruining the Moon too.

Ug!


28 posted on 02/23/2019 8:56:40 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Cow fart inflation.


29 posted on 02/23/2019 8:57:15 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: reg45
Wouldn’t the atmospheric drag on the moon cause it to spiral in towards the earth?

Arghh! I was having a nice day and now there's one more thing to worry about besides what Ocasio-Cortes is worrying me about! Now I'll need a hard hat.

30 posted on 02/23/2019 9:14:43 PM PST by roadcat
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To: reg45
Wouldn’t the atmospheric drag on the moon cause it to spiral in towards the earth?

Physics would say so, but the moon (so they say) has been drifting away from the Earth for billions of years.

31 posted on 02/23/2019 9:19:15 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

so all the climate models are wrong ?


32 posted on 02/23/2019 9:21:07 PM PST by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Flat Earthers would probably say the corners wouldn’t fit in a smaller circle.


33 posted on 02/23/2019 9:49:15 PM PST by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

No person. The voyagers are out in space though. Out past the oort cloud. https://space-facts.com/oort-cloud/

I think that counts as interstellar space.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/784/nasas-voyager-2-probe-enters-interstellar-space/
https://www.space.com/26462-voyager-1-interstellar-space-confirmed.html


34 posted on 02/23/2019 9:50:15 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: W.

Who upset your apple cart


35 posted on 02/23/2019 10:06:30 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: reg45

Nothing compared to the tidal effects


36 posted on 02/23/2019 10:07:54 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: reg45

Nothing compared to the tidal effects


37 posted on 02/23/2019 10:07:58 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: UCANSEE2

Don’t worry about our silly little moon. In a mere 7.6 billion years or thereabouts the sun will start running low on the light stuff it is fusing now and move on to heavier stuff causing a nova and we wont have to worry about some silly little moon. The surface of the sun will be aprox .2 AU or 1.859e+7 Miles out past our current orbit.

Stock up on sun screen.


38 posted on 02/23/2019 10:10:50 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: TexasGator

Observational experience.


39 posted on 02/23/2019 10:13:01 PM PST by W. (Natty Light: The beer so nice, you'll taste it twice!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Okay, so Earth’s atmosphere is less like a crewcut and more like an afro.


40 posted on 02/23/2019 10:26:55 PM PST by Yardstick
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