These clowns don't understand the difference between temperature and heat. It is heat that melts metals, not temperature. Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles. Heat is the total kinetic energy. You can have a very high temperature, but if there are very few particles there is very little heat--not nearly enough to melt satellites. The thermosphere is virtually a vacuum. The exosphere is even closer to being a perfect vacuum. The few particles in these regions are moving very quickly, hence the high temperatures. But there are so few particles, there is actually very little heat. If you were exposed to the vacuum of space in the thermosphere, you would be more likely to freeze to death than to burn up. The irony is that this is indeed easy for kids to understand. But idiots--that's a different kettle of fish.
Of course they do. What's your point? How does that change anything I said? The temperature of the thermosphere is determined by the average kinetic energy of the few atoms and molecules in the thermosphere.
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Brendan Ward
- a year ago
These clowns don't understand the difference between temperature and heat. It is heat that melts metals, not temperature. Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles. Heat is the total kinetic energy. You can have a very high temperature, but if there are very few particles there is very little heat--not nearly enough to melt satellites. The thermosphere is virtually a vacuum. The exosphere is even closer to being a perfect vacuum. The few particles in these regions are moving very quickly, hence the high temperatures. But there are so few particles, there is actually very little heat. If you were exposed to the vacuum of space in the thermosphere, you would be more likely to freeze to death than to burn up. The irony is that this is indeed easy for kids to understand. But idiots--that's a different kettle of fish.
West1
- a year ago
Well I’am no expert but surely satellite has particles?
Brendan Ward
- a year ago
Of course they do. What's your point? How does that change anything I said? The temperature of the thermosphere is determined by the average kinetic energy of the few atoms and molecules in the thermosphere.