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6/17/2010 3:40:12 AM EDT
How is it that it can be 100 degrees on the earth's surface, but much colder in the atmosphere and space, when the sun is the source of our heat?  

 Magnets and shit?
6/17/2010 3:44:34 AM EDT
[#1]
I was going to answer your question, but you included the "magnet" crack, so I have decided not to.
6/17/2010 3:46:25 AM EDT
[#2]

Atmosphere, Dave.  Atmosphere.
6/17/2010 3:46:52 AM EDT
[#3]
Quoted:
I was going to answer your question, but you included the "magnet" crack, so I have decided not to.





OK
6/17/2010 3:49:36 AM EDT
[#4]


Atmosphere keeps heat in.  Check Venus for example of global warming.



You could walk 20 feet to either side of Mercury's terminator and go from +800ºF to -300ºF.  No atmosphere to keep the heat in.
6/17/2010 3:57:18 AM EDT
[#5]
Quoted:
How is it that it can be 100 degrees on the earth's surface, but much colder in the atmosphere and space, when the sun is the source of our heat?  

 Magnets and shit?


If you are exposed to the heat and radiation coming from the Sun, where temp rises to over 500F on the upper atmosphere/low orbit...would basically toast yourself

If you are on the dark side of the Earth, you would freeze your azz due to no heat/radiation from the Sun....

The heat we feel in our daily life in this misserable dust spec floating in the Cosmos, is the result of the atmosphere reflecting/absorbing solar radiation...and maintaining an adecuate Global Temp.

6/17/2010 4:00:31 AM EDT
[#6]
Thanks for blinding me with science.
6/17/2010 4:30:53 AM EDT
[#7]
Quoted:
How is it that it can be 100 degrees on the earth's surface, but much colder in the atmosphere and space, when the sun is the source of our heat?  

Magnets and shit?




Don't listen to those other ignoramuses. Magnets and shit are EXACTLY the right answer.

Magnets pull heat away from you. And shit, as you know, GENERATES heat as it decomposes.

I am experimenting with a perpetual motion machine involving electromagnets and Ex-Lax.
6/17/2010 4:56:45 AM EDT
[#8]
The atmosphere -  it's a trap!