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To: Secret Agent Man

That would not be the result. The result would be surface temps of 5,700 c.

“For liquid or ice particles to
remain above the earth’s atmosphere, they must be in
orbit. For anything to orbit the earth, its velocity must
exceed 17,000 miles per hour (760,000 cm/sec). (As
stated earlier, a layer of water only 40-feet thick
contains 6.22 ´ 1021 grams of water.) Just as a spacecraft
generates great heat as it reenters the atmosphere, so also orbiting liquid or ice particles release
vast amounts of heat as they fall from orbit. That heat
energy equals the kinetic energy of the particles in
orbit, which is
where 2.39 ´ 10-8 converts the units to calories. This
heat would raise the atmosphere’s temperature
Even if a canopy began with the coldest ice possible
(absolute zero) or if some of this heat were transferred
elsewhere, insufferable heat would still result.


94 posted on 03/09/2009 8:06:23 PM PDT by DevNet (What's past is prologue)
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To: DevNet
“For liquid or ice particles to remain above the earth’s atmosphere, they must be in orbit.

The water is above the orbit...

114 posted on 03/10/2009 6:15:15 AM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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