Re: More on Air Consumption...

On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Eugene Shumu1insky wrote:

> In our last episode, Thomas O. Magann Jr. said:
> >Actually, not's not quite what they say. Page 11 of the Concordanance
> >describes the air as thinning with altitude. On Page 7 they comment that the
> >thin air eventually becomes unbreatheable, but, at that point a person starts
> >breathing air brought along with them in their own envelope.

[...]

> 	That doesn't make sense to me.  I've read that line quite a few
> times, and I still don't get it.  If the air around me is about to become
> unbreathable, then the air I my envelope will pick up is barely breathable.

I think they're assuming you picked up your air pocket on the surface and
that it stays with you as you go up higher. So, every mass's air envelope
thins out. With people and ships, the thinning zone would be trvialy
small, but for planets...

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