SPACE STRAW
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Our atmosphere is a thin vail of air, held to earth's surface by gravity. We live in it, we breathe it, we walk through it every day; it contains all weather, but yet it is almost nothing. In fact, if the earth was the size of an apple our atmosphere from the ground all the way to outer space would only be about as thick as the skin of an apple. And because our atmosphere gets thinner, exponentially as you go up, 90 percent of our atmospheres mass at this scale could fit within a space as thin as just a third of an apple's skin. But that shrimpy sliver of a peel would still be thousands of times thicker than you are tall. We humans are itsy bitsy dots strolling around in a skinny sky. But that skinny sky does a ...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Our atmosphere is a thin vail of air, held to earth's surface by gravity. We live in it, we breathe it, we walk through it every day; it contains all weather, but yet it is almost nothing. In fact, if the earth was the size of an apple our atmosphere from the ground all the way to outer space would only be about as thick as the skin of an apple. And because our atmosphere gets thinner, exponentially as you go up, 90 percent of our atmospheres mass at this scale could fit within a space as thin as just a third of an apple's skin. But that shrimpy sliver of a peel would still be thousands of times thicker than you are tall. We humans are itsy bitsy dots strolling around in a skinny sky. But that skinny sky does a ...
