Reveal Earth’s Atmosphere | National Geographic

there is another way of looking at the
atmosphere if you could unwrap the
atmosphere from the surface of the earth
and put it all into a ball this is what
it would look like its weight is equal
to a layer of water 34 feet deep
covering the earth
the layer that we spend our lives in the
troposphere is just the narrow band
it’s a finely balanced mixture of
different gases essential for life but
it also has a physical presence to
understand the troposphere we live in
you have to think of it not just as
gases but as a fluid in effect we live
at the bottom of an ocean of air just
like water air has turbulence these
clouds are formed as the air crease Eddy
comes flowing around the tips of
mountains tornadoes are like giant
whirlpools
and just like the ocean the troposphere
even has waves this cloud in Queensland
Australia is one of the largest waves in
the world it can reach to over a mile
high it’s a solitary tropospheric wave
that combined with the humidity in the
region takes a form of a visible cloud
as the air cools it condenses to form a
cloud the frozen land at 25 miles an
hour
visible evidence of the ocean of air
above us
and just like any fluid the atmosphere
has a weight it presses down on each of
our bodies with a force of over 14
pounds per square inch the only reason
that we don’t collapse and a heap is
because the air inside our bodies
balances the pressure outside
we’re like like lobsters walking on the
seabed oblivious to the weight of the
fluid above it because we’re so
adjusting to it and if you’re still in
any doubt about the fluid nature of the
atmosphere some people can even Soph on
it admittedly it’s a little trickier
than traditional suffering which is why
it’s best left to an expert like Troy
Hartman
Troy isn’t just falling vertically
through the air he can move horizontally
too
the sky is Troy’s ocean what