vacuum of space

The reason we have air presure around us is caused by Gravity. Just like when
you go under water the weight of the water increases the deeper you go. The
gravity is causing the weight to multiply by a factor of one atmosphere per 30
ft. you decend. so the presure of the ocean at the bottom is a result of the
dept of water that the gravity of the earth is acting. if you go to the dead
sea the air presure is greater there because you are deeper in the atmosphere.
(you could be 1000 ft below sea level) So it is a result of the amount of
gases that God put here. The amazing fact is that with all the hundreds of
factors working together, changing any of those by .01% would make life
impossable here on earth.

On 04 Jul 2004 19:33:30 GMT, (Ttruitt528) wrote:

So it is a result of the amount of
gases that God put here. The amazing fact is that with all the hundreds of
factors working together, changing any of those by .01% would make life
impossable here on earth.

I'm not sure where you get that. There is nothing to suggest that we couldn't
make substantial changes to our atmospheric chemistry and still support life.
Certainly, when life developed the atmosphere was radically different, and life
exists today on the Earth under a wide range of atmospheric pressures and
various gas ratios.

You are perhaps attempting to restate the Anthropic Principle, which tries
(poorly IMO) to relate the existence of man to the precise values of universal
constants.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 04 Jul 2004 19:33:30 GMT, (Ttruitt528) wrote:

So it is a result of the amount of
gases that God put here. The amazing fact is that with all the hundreds of
factors working together, changing any of those by .01% would make life
impossable here on earth.

I'm not sure where you get that. There is nothing to suggest that we couldn't
make substantial changes to our atmospheric chemistry and still support life.
Certainly, when life developed the atmosphere was radically different, and life
exists today on the Earth under a wide range of atmospheric pressures and
various gas ratios.

You are perhaps attempting to restate the Anthropic Principle, which tries
(poorly IMO) to relate the existence of man to the precise values of universal
constants.

_________________________________________________

Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com