/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11244206]

>the vacuum of space
>being overpowered by earth's weak ass gravitational pull
lmao do people actually believe this?

[Anonymous No.11244260]

>>11244206
Stop being a retard, OP.

[Anonymous No.11244262]

>another janny "trolling"

[Anonymous No.11244268]

>>11244206
There is no hard boundary between atmosphere and outer space, the air just gets thinner and thinner. That pic is misleading.
Also Earth's atmosphere is not only bound by gravitational pull but also by Earth's magnetic field, or so I read. Also there is still some degree of atmosphere escape.

[Anonymous No.11244275]

>>11244268
so what? then we should be losing air at the outer edge.

[Anonymous No.11244278]

>>11244275
we are which is why you should STOCK UP on CANNED AIR TODAY!! JUST 30 minutes of AIR for $19.99!!! CALL NOW AND YOU'LL GET ANOTHER FREE!!!

[Anonymous No.11244279]

>>11244275
Correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape#Earth

[Anonymous No.11244283]

>>11244278
Based and Perri-pilled.

[Anonymous No.11245038]

>>11244275
We do lose atmophere from solar wind but it's not much. Please describe what force could make all of the air leave the planet? It's at the bottom of a gravity well. It's literally held down by gravity.

[Anonymous No.11245041]

>>11244278
Kek

[Anonymous No.11245058]

>>11244275
You act like atmosphere is not also being generated.

The Earth gains approximately 40,000 metric tones of dust every year from space and loses approximately 50,000 metric tons due to atmospheric dissipation back into space. Some of that dust from space will break down and form new atmosphere as the Earth also sheds material from the surface into the atmosphere, everything from dust particles breaking down into elemental parts when exposed to high energy solar radiation over long periods of time to Helium generated from the breakdown of nuclear elements such as Uranium 238 through Alpha decay.

So the Earth is mostly in balance with an estimated 10,000 metric tons of material lost to space each year, or about .000000000000001% of its total mass each year.

It will take trillions upon trillions of years to lose a significant amount of material into space, however the amount lost is rather a lot compared to say, the size of a human being. 10,000 metric tons is a lot until you realize the Earth is approximately 6 Sextillion tons of matter.

[Anonymous No.11245069]

>>11245058
The amount of atmosphere being added to the planet is similarly negligible to the amount being blown off by solar wind each year. The main driving force in the short term is volcanism, and in the long term it is indeed solar wind. The magnetosphere brings this down a massive amount. We don't have massive supervolcanoes constantly topping us off like venus, and we're not safely far away like neptune. Really our atmosphere would look like mars but a little thicker if not for the magnetosphere.

[Anonymous No.11245082]

>>11245069
>but a little thicker if not for the magnetosphere.
>a little thicker
go on...

[Anonymous No.11245095]

>>11244206
>lmao do people actually believe this?
everyone on this board does because they're a bunch of pseuds pretending to be intelligent

[Anonymous No.11245106]

>>11245095
My favorite is the ad-hominem attack legit morons will give you when they can't form a valid argument. They'll quote your post next to an image of a basedboy drawing without anything else. It's literally the equivalent of "you're a doodoo head!"

[Anonymous No.11245108]

>>11245095
>everyone on this board does because they're a bunch of pseuds pretending to be intelligent
come on /b/ro, this place is mostly semi-intelligent trolls. it's not so bad.

[Anonymous No.11245288]

>>11245095
>everyone on this board does because they're a bunch of pseuds pretending to be intelligent
pretty much, sometimes I forget if I'm on /x/ or /sci/ half the time

[Anonymous No.11245293]

>>11244206