Most of the defense systems are intended to work as a missile
passes out of the atmosphere, during the midcourse phase, because once you're above the atmosphere things move on a predictable trajectory.
As they heat up, the oceans, land and atmosphere release heat in the form of IR thermal radiation, which
passes out of the atmosphere and into space.
Not exact matches
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As the eons
passed, most
of the carbon dioxide was absorbed into carbonate rocks, and Earth's
atmosphere, which started
out 10 to 20 times as thick as it is today, gradually thinned.
Burning red - hot from its passage through the
atmosphere and trailing streaks
of vapour, the meteor train moved south - east,
passing just a few kilometres north
of New York and then
out over the Atlantic Ocean.
It had been thought that Makemake would have an
atmosphere similar to that
of Pluto but leader
of the Team
of Astronomers, Jose Luis Ortiz
of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC, Spain explained «As Makemake
passed in front
of the star and blocked it
out, the star disappeared and reappeared very abruptly, rather than fading and brightening gradually.
Peter Carson, 400 ppmv equates to about a gauntlet
of nearly 2 billion CO2 molecules an IR photon must
pass within a wavelength
of on its way
out of the
atmosphere.
An active sun spews
out a great deal
of material that our
atmosphere can pick up
passing through which would add density to it for protection.
His exposition does not deal with the real situation
of the
atmosphere, which is in effect a layer
of gas dealing with an infrared energy flux emanating from the Earth's surface and which
passes out into the void
of space.
Again, you can assume that half
of the balls «bounce» off the
Atmosphere back to Earth like reflected light from a half - silvered mirror and the other half
pass through
out towards Space.
The poster child recently for this absurdity has been the GPS system, and recently there was some clock put on a satellite which they claimed proved speed slowed down the clock, which on closer inspection showed the same wishful thinking as we note in reading the variety
of models produced
of an alien world with a cold Sun and no
atmosphere passing itself off a this one — here, a real world analysis by a real world scientist blanked
out by consensus:
What I'm trying to get at is that the extremes
of temperature get smoothed
out by the low
pass filter
of the
atmosphere and that heat transfer between sections
of the
atmosphere is probably far more important than any minimal effects
of greenhouse gasses.
I have tried to say things several ways, but I always profess that there is «upward thermal IR from the surface» (~ 396 W / m ^ 2, most
of which gets absorbed by the
atmosphere, but some
passes directly thru the
atmosphere and
out into space) and a «downward thermal IR from the
atmosphere» (~ 333 W / m ^ 2, nearly all
of which gets absorbed by the surface).