Boundary Between Earth's Upper Atmosphere And Space Has Moved To Extraordinarily Low Altitudes...

Science Daily ^ | Dec. 16, 2008 | Unknown

[decimon]

ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2008) — Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary between the Earth's upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes. These observations were made by the Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamics Investigation (CINDI) instrument suite, which was launched aboard the U.S. Air Force's Communication/Navigation Outage Forecast System (C/NOFS) satellite on April 16, 2008.

[decimon]

Been feeling light-headed.

[scfischer7]

What has Bush done now!?

[dforest]

How much is this crisis gonna cost? Who is selling credits to solve it....or do we have to give up beans now?

[Andonius_99]

I’ll be the first - Bush’s Fault!

[LRS]

“The sky’s a fallin’!”

[kidd]

“The height of the ionosphere/space transition is controlled in part by the amount of extreme ultraviolet energy emitted by the Sun and a somewhat contracted ionosphere could have been expected because C/NOFS was launched during a minimum in the 11-year cycle of solar activity.”

[dead]

I poked my head into space and it exploded due to negative pressure, so I ran around really fast and went back in time to unexplode it.

I'm fine now.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

This could be the final nail in the coffin of 60’s hippies. Being spaced-in!

[EternalVigilance]

Oh no! The sky is falling!

[Beeline]

Gore is right its all global warming!

[Just another Joe]

I'm fine now.

Are you sure?
You've never been fine before. ;^)

[21twelve]

I seem to recall some Russian guy saying how there are regions of increased energy in the Universe and our entire solar system passes through them at times. I believe he says (or perhaps the data proves) that we are passing through one of these Universal Energy Zones (or whatever they call them) now. So not just the Sun’s energy perhaps.

[Fred911]

I guess we’re all going to die......at least I don’t have to worry about my stock portfolio anymore......

[dirtymac]

I read the article. Blah, blah, blah. So what does it mean? If it's a problem, whose fault is it. (GWB, Rove, Global Warming, loss of habitat, human enchroactment, Palin, conservatives). I mean, so what? The sky is still up there, isn't it?

[muawiyah]

As the atmoshere cools it condenses and the topmost layers come closer to Earth's surface.

Prepare for a serious "minimum" or maybe even the return of the North American Ice Sheet.

[Lokibob]

I am not a rocket scientist, but I did stay at a holiday inn experss once, so:
a satellite is launched and 9 months late it discovers that the atmosphere boundary layer is lowest it has ever been in history? That is some satellite!!!
Do I see chicken little writing this article?

....Bob

[wolfcreek]

I had noticed a little *haziness* lately.

[DannyTN]

We’ve become more dense, as evidenced by the elections, which increases the gravitational pull.

[texmexis best]

It’s cold.

[Old Professer]

So there we have it, the sky IS FALLING; no wonder the CO2 signal is squeezed so tight.