Is anyone else going to be in D.C. on the 20th? I will be. I might not be at the actual inauguration because of the sheer number of people, but I'm going to be in the city all day, looking at monuments and whatnot.
I tried to sign up for one of the ten free passes to the inauguration, but I don't think my brief text blurb was heartwarming and inspiring enough to beat the competition. Maybe I'll try and find a house party for the event.
It's going to be a monstrous clusterfuck down there. I live roughly an hour away from DC and every hotel in the city was completely booked months ago for this day, people have been renting out spare rooms in the homes for people that want to go. DC's public transit isn't big enough for this many people, it'll be a nightmare getting into and out of the city. I just hope it all stays peaceful, I heard there aren't enough cops either.
Anyway, I hope you have a nice visit Jeff. It'll be crowded, but most of the museums down there have free admission and there's enough that you could spend a weekend there and still not see them all.
There's a little air in space. Space isn't a perfect vacuum, and air can and does escape from a planet's atmosphere due to solar winds and the weaker gravity of some smaller bodies.
I am talking about massive clouds of molecular gas gradually coalescing. Since it's usually hydrogen, or helium, I put "air" in quotation marks. It accumulates, becomes dense and hot, and if pressure is high enough to cause fusion, it becomes a star. Or if it doesn't acquire enough pressure to cause fusion, it just becomes a big gas planet, like Jupiter.
That's the basic gist, but the molecules involved usually come from the formation of stars, not runoff from other planets' atmospheres. Even though some hydrogen and helium might escape the Earth's atmosphere, it wouldn't get very far. Most of it probably remains in Earth's orbit around the Sun.
Right. I wasn't talking about planetary runoff though, since Earth's magnetic field protects solar winds from taking away too much of our atmosphere. When people were talking about "air", I just thought about big clouds of molecular gas, like leftovers from a massive dead star.
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Anyway, I hope you have a nice visit Jeff. It'll be crowded, but most of the museums down there have free admission and there's enough that you could spend a weekend there and still not see them all.
Or am I still off?
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