[txhurl]

If the earth *was* flat, there’d be millions of people floating around in space and I’d be responsible for at least 20 of them.

[philman_36]

If the earth *was* flat, there’d be millions of people floating around in space and I’d be responsible for at least 20 of them.

Star Trek-like invisible shield found thousands of miles above Earth University of Colorado Boulder

The team originally thought the highly charged electrons, which are looping around Earth at more than 100,000 miles per second, would slowly drift downward into the upper atmosphere and gradually be wiped out by interactions with air molecules. But the impenetrable barrier seen by the twin Van Allen belt spacecraft stops the electrons before they get that far, said Baker.

You'll need a lot of speed!