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tomhagen

(3,604 posts) Sat May 13, 2017, 06:08 AM May 2017

Earth from Space Live. Notice how Precariously thin the Atmosphere is

No thicker than the Shellac; on a Classrom Globe

Donald trump has never seen this

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Earth from Space Live. Notice how Precariously thin the Atmosphere is (Original Post) tomhagen May 2017 OP

"Donald Trump has never seen this" yuiyoshida May 2017 #1

In "Inconvienient Truth"... SHRED May 2017 #2

It's objective reality localroger May 2017 #3

yuiyoshida

(41,818 posts)

1. "Donald Trump has never seen this"

Reply to tomhagen (Original post)

Sat May 13, 2017, 10:38 AM

May 2017

Frankly, there are not many people here, including mysefl, who got to see the earth like that from out a NASA window either... but yeah, Trump probably thinks he lives on an Ant Hill.

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

2. In "Inconvienient Truth"...

Reply to tomhagen (Original post)

Sat May 13, 2017, 11:34 AM

May 2017

...Al Gore described the living atmosphere as about the thickness of cellophane wrapped around a basketball for comparison.

It's thin and fragile.
I fear we've gone past too many tipping points already.

localroger

(3,622 posts)

3. It's objective reality

Reply to tomhagen (Original post)

Sat May 13, 2017, 05:12 PM

May 2017

The Earth is about 9,000 miles in diameter; the atmosphere is about 4 miles thick.

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