Stuff that worries me

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1) Why is it, when you fly at 30,000 feet that it is colder despite being nearer the sun. At what point does it start to warm up again?

2) Presumably your bath water & plops drop into a sewer. If the effluents are moved by gravity the pipe must slope downward. If your sewage centre is a long way away how deep must the pipe be by then? If you live near the sewage centre your plops must drop a long way down. If it's actually pumped, not gravity fed why do you never hear of a burst plop pipe?

If you clever folk could answer these questions I'd be obliged.

[rich 36]

Our toilets upstairs, but then we live darn'sarf so!

[puggit]

1) There's far less gas at higher altitudes, so there's far less energy - hence less heat

2) I'm not in to fluid mechanics, so someone else can answer

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puggit said:

1) There's far less gas at higher altitudes, so there's far less energy - hence less heat

But, all the enegy comes from the sun?

[rich 36]

Great we've discussed Fruit/dead ruminants/flogging old Tiv's now, whattttt,
oh yea, s#it,
over to you Steve

[rich 36]

Mungo, you do occur in the oddest threads, how are you

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rich 36 said:

Mungo, you do occur in the oddest threads, how are you

What's odd about this thread exactly?

[rich 36]

Well STEVE in terms of you, nothing much, but we like car stuff a lot (me anyway)

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Oi! what about my questions!

T'aint a love in y'know

[rich 36]

sorry me and Mungo, go back a ways here, it was before I met you, just leave it, jeez...

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Get thee behind me satan well, to the sin bin anyway

[alexkp]

2 Smokin Barrels said:

anonymous said: [redacted] Ta Alex...so when does it start to heat up then?

IIRC - air temperature falls off quite quickly once you begin to ascend, at a rate of between 1-2 degrees celsius per 1000 ft.

It is only the bottom couple of thousand feet that give the temperate climate we "enjoy".

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Yus...but as you head further towards the sun it must start warming up again.

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mungo said:

Here's one to worry you 2sb... How close would you be able to get to the sun before you got burned? Someone must have worked out the answer to that question - That Patrick Moore bloke maybe?

Yes, exactly. I don't want to stray too close.

[turbobloke]

The thermosphere - the outermost part of the atmosphere between the mesosphere and outer space. It's here that temperatures increase with altitude. Temperatures rise to well over 1000 deg C.

The lower part of the thermosphere, about 100 to 500 km up, contains the ionosphere. Beyond the ionosphere extending out to beyond 10,000 km is the exosphere or outer thermosphere, which gradually fades away into the partial vacuum of space.

[rich 36]

Romulus and Remus might know a bit more

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turbobloke said:

The thermosphere - the outermost part of the atmosphere between the mesosphere and outer space. It's here that temperatures increase with altitude. Temperatures rise to well over 1000 deg C. The lower part of the thermosphere, about 100 to 500 km up, contains the ionosphere. Beyond the ionosphere extending out to beyond 10,000 km is the exosphere or outer thermosphere, which gradually fades away into the partial vacuum of space.

Ta!

So, does that mean that after 100,000 km it starts to heat up? That would mean it's hotter on the moon.