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Velocity Profile of the Upper Atmosphere
Consider an Earth-Centered Inertial (ECI) frame in which the tangential (to Earth's surface) velocity is measured. Now consider obtaining constant average velocity profiles of the atmosphere as a ...
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How fast could you suck up the atmosphere [closed]
So kind of a strange question, but if i had a 1000 foot wide hose with endless storage space, whats the quickest possible time it could be used to suck up the entirety of the Earth's atmosphere.
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Maximum temperature possible on earth
What is maximum temperature that can we have on earth on a single day?
Lets say an air mass is static over an area and there is no way for air mass to move, sun warming it up would increase ...
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Why In Thermosphere is He and O divided as measured? [closed]
If we look Thermosphere a bit closer. we found out that Helium and Oxygen is divided peculiarily. This picture below shows the Earth looked below the south pole. So the orbiting direction is shown in ...
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How do stars from far away affect Earth?
I know that we obviously get light (or we wouldn't be able to see them), but are there any other ways that they affect Earth and maybe just our solar system in general?
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Faster alternative to travel to any location in the west? [closed]
Suppose one needs to travel to Somalia from Indonesia(which are approximately at a distance of $4000$ miles from each other on the line of equator). To accomplish this task, I suggest the following ...
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Why does lightning most often occur at night?
This is a question based on my experience. I cannot say that lightning (succeed by thunder) never occurs during the day, but it seems most likely to occur during the night. Maybe the humidity levels ...
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What is this bright spot in the sky?
I took this picture a few minutes ago (35 minutes ago, currently 1828 here)
As you can see there's a VERY bright spot on the right that shows a spectrum on the one side.
I am pretty confident it's ...
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Could a big enough straw stretching from Earth to space eject atmosphere into space? [duplicate]
Assuming the straw can be built out of any material, shape, size.
Would the vacuum effect of space acting on the pressurized gas have enough force to lift the weight of the atmosphere contained in ...
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Would a pipe from the surface to the Earth's exosphere suck all atmosphere to the space? [closed]
If I built a tube from Earth's surface to the exosphere, would all the air be sucked out to space?
If this pipe reached to a big planet, like Jupiter, would its gravity through the pipe suck our ...
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Where do atoms of H and He go when they rise in the atmosphere? [duplicate]
What happens to atoms/molecules of H and He when we let them freely fly in atmosphere do they get into space? Is there any particular way to enumerate the 'force' that drives them upwards? Does ...
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What will be effects of harnessing lightning?
In Feynman's Lectures, volume 2, chapter 9, there is a mention of earth getting charged by thunderstorm lightning.
It is the thunderstorms throughout the world that are charging the earth with an ...
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Is there a resonance within the earth, separate from the Schuman resonance?
In a very recent biography of Nikola Tesla by Bernard Carlson, the author explains that Tesla measured the resonant frequency of the earth using his invention - the amplifying transmitter. Tesla came ...
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What is causing the Trumpet Sounds that are emited from the sky?
In these last years, a phenomenon have appeared in several countries (US, Canada, Australia, Russia, Germany, and others).
It consists of sounds like a trumpet coming from our own planet's sky.
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Why it is colder in mountains, at high altitudes?
The conventional answer is to say that "lower temperature follows from lower pressure because temperature is average molecular energy (average speed)". For instance "Temperature is a measure of ...
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