linucs@lemmy.ml to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoWhy and how does atmosphere exist? Shouldn't all oxygen (and everthing else) fall down due to gravity?message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down12
arrow-up130arrow-down1message-squareWhy and how does atmosphere exist? Shouldn't all oxygen (and everthing else) fall down due to gravity?linucs@lemmy.ml to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareangrystego@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoI can’t help but think the effects are related. Isn’t low air presure in the mountains caused by gravity making air fall down?
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoyeah but the composition of air at the mountaintop is still pretty much the same as at sea level
I can’t help but think the effects are related. Isn’t low air presure in the mountains caused by gravity making air fall down?
yeah but the composition of air at the mountaintop is still pretty much the same as at sea level
Yeah, sure.