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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (224450)3/16/2007 11:56:07 AM
From: bentway  Respond to of 281500
 
"Actually, relative to the earth, the atmosphere itself is but a coat of varnish on a globe. Half gone at 14,000 feet, 75 percent gone at the top of Mt Everest. Ain't much there."

This can't be stressed enough. To we virus-scale creatures compared to our planet, the atmosphere seems deep and vast. But it's really an EXTREMELY thin layer of insubstantial gas covering the globe. A layer without which, we'd all die.


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