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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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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It makes sense. The moon and atmosphere are both within the active gravitational field of earth.


41 posted on 02/23/2019 10:34:48 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The science is settled. Heh.


42 posted on 02/23/2019 10:43:20 PM PST by DesScorp
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To: CodeToad

Someone is missing a marketing opportunity. I’ve never seen a Van Allen belt sold in a clothing store.


43 posted on 02/23/2019 10:47:11 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: reg45

Just read an item here at FR within the past week or so that indicated the Moon was coming closer to Earth.


44 posted on 02/23/2019 11:42:56 PM PST by octex
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To: octex

Or... Did the item say it was moving further away???

I really don’t recall, now.


45 posted on 02/24/2019 12:02:53 AM PST by octex
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To: adorno

Ed Wood had this all figured out decades ago:

Colonel Tom Edwards:
Why, a particle of sunlight can’t even be seen or measured.

Eros:
Can you see or measure an atom? Yet you can explode one. A ray of sunlight is made up of many atoms.

Jeff Trent:
So what if we do develop this Solaranite bomb? We’d be even a stronger nation than now.

Eros:
“Stronger.” You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhvDMhrws1o


46 posted on 02/24/2019 12:25:14 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Before this discovery, the science was settled.


47 posted on 02/24/2019 1:55:38 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
So now we finally understand how Superman (a.k.a. Christopher Reeve) was able to breathe on the Moon in Superman II.

Regards,

48 posted on 02/24/2019 2:54:30 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, as Hamlet says, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”


The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
J. B. S. Haldane, in Possible Worlds and Other Papers (1927), p. 286


49 posted on 02/24/2019 3:27:32 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And now we know some of the rest of the stroy:
The moon orbits inside the Earth’s atmosphere
Climate is a product of the forces of the atmosphere
Weather is the local expression of those forces.
The moon effects Earth’s weather.
QED

As any one who has fished for a living over decades could have told you.


50 posted on 02/24/2019 3:31:27 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: blueplum

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.


Eskimos eat seals ...


51 posted on 02/24/2019 3:33:49 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Ok, I’m sold.

Sadly, that’s the majority’s opinion.


52 posted on 02/24/2019 4:59:28 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

The Tesla guy has.


53 posted on 02/24/2019 5:02:43 AM PST by Renegade
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Holy carbon reductions, Batman! So if we were to recalculate the percentage ... goooooooooal! We did it!


54 posted on 02/24/2019 5:08:38 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe #BuildIt)
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To: W.

“Observational experience.”

From inside your cave?


55 posted on 02/24/2019 11:34:24 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

No, my starship...


56 posted on 02/24/2019 12:35:42 PM PST by W. (Natty Light: The beer so nice, you'll taste it twice!)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks E. Pluribus Unum. And the planets have tails.



57 posted on 03/02/2019 3:00:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: PIF; All

And the moon effects human behavior as any policeman will tell you.


58 posted on 03/03/2019 10:04:16 PM PST by gleeaikin
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