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.
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Awesome
“They can smell the cow farts on the moon” Alexandria Occasional-Cortex
The dots. I connected them. :)
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.
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?.....
Damn, and all my life I thought the Apollo astronauts at least made it out of Earth’s atmosphere.
I knew it!
The Left has found a way to include us ruining the Moon too.
Ug!
Cow fart inflation.
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.
Physics would say so, but the moon (so they say) has been drifting away from the Earth for billions of years.
so all the climate models are wrong ?
The Flat Earthers would probably say the corners wouldn’t fit in a smaller circle.
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
Who upset your apple cart
Nothing compared to the tidal effects
Nothing compared to the tidal effects
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.
Observational experience.
Okay, so Earth’s atmosphere is less like a crewcut and more like an afro.
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