If people could fly hypothetically, and tried going past the lithosphere into space...?

Question

how would it feel to even try? I know you cant though. It's just a curious question. Isn't it really tough to get through? like when you take a jetplane thing and it tries going INTO the atmosphere it could bouce back into space and crash./......

i really dont even know if this makes sense

okay let me re-write the question:

If you could go past the very top(farthest of the atmosphere, otherwise knows as not being able to breath point b/c it's so high.............. what would it feel like to try to go past it into space? Would you not be able to do it? would you die from trying? and you could fly..

and no one is answering my question write, i dont care about wings, just what if you COULD do it.. i just want the answer to the part of trying to go past into space without an aircraft

yes i know that it's colder as u get higher... just answer the question!!

STOP TALKING ABOUT COLD ITS NOT ANSWERING MY QUESTION!!!

Answer 1

No, I don`t think that you would bounce back trying to leave the atmosphere, as it is getting thinner, the danger would be, that you would pass out from lack of O2 long before the cold would git you.

Answer 2

First off the lithosphere is a layer in the Earth.

The atmosphere around the earth is made up of layers that are distinguished by temperature. The first layer closest to the earth is the troposphere. The next layer is the stratosphere. The third layer is the mesosphere. The thermosphere layer (the next layer) has many temperature changes. The exosphere is the highest layer of the atmosphere. This is the layer in which you are speaking of...not the lithosphere. The upper atmosphere also contains the magnetosphere. This layer produces the beautiful "northern lights" or "aurora borealis." Temperatures are extremely low in the exosphere and someone would not be able to survive. Depending on the way the person entered into each layer of the atmosphere, the fiction between entering and exiting every layer of the atmosphere would burn the person up. If the person were to survive going through every layer and survive the cold, the person would able to enter into outer space. The person would make the transition somewhere around 40,000 miles and would eventually float. However, the person would not survive the vacuum of space. So...no matter what the winged flight to space would not ever work anyway.

Another reason why the person wouldn't make it through to outer space is the vacuum of space gets stronger the higher you get in the atmosphere. The atmosphere at a certain altitude (not sure the exact spot) would pull the person into pieces because gravity is not having as much effect on the person.

Answer 3

OK. I understand this question, it is a thought experiment. So I will dispense with the practical considerations. What you are essentially asking is 'Is there any kind of physical barrier between the top of the atmosphere and space'?

The answer is no. "Space" is in fact, merely a practical definition, as the atmosphere extends far higher than you might realize.

According to Isaac Newton's laws, gravity decreases the further away you get from the Earth, so in a sense, the higher you go, the less energy you need to expend to go even higher!

It is because of gravity that most of the atmosphere sloshes about close to the planet's surface. The higher you go, air becomes thinner and thinner and thinner until it is only a small concentration of hydrogen atoms. Even so called "empty' space has about three hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.

When you hear of the possibility of a space shuttle "bouncing" off the atmosphere if it comes in at the wrong angle, this is because of the increased friction on the shuttle from the denser air as it descends. The faster the shuttle goes, the more friction there is and shuttles go pretty fast! This effect is not dissimilar to skipping stones on a lake, if you just drop the stone straight in it will sink like a, well you know.

Answer 4

OKAY:

You want to fly, as if by strapping on a pair of wings that will let you fly like a bird. There are Parafoils that you can get these days which with the right kinds of winds will allow you to fly like a bird very high.

However, (and this is the part that you have overlooked) flight with wings requires the flow of air over the wings to generate "lift" to permit the actual flight. As you go higher and higher, the air becomes thinner and thinner so the lift generated will be less and less (unless you have a powerful engine - a jet). At some point you will be unable to go any higher because of insufficient lift.

Also, with the air getting thinner and thinner it is getting colder and colder, and harder and harder to breathe. So you will need some kind of heated suit and batteries to power the heat coils within the suit, along with an oxygen bottle, mask,
regulator and hoses. All this equipment makes you heavier, and the wing contraption you are using to fly won't go as high with all that extra weight.

So, my guess is that you might soar up to possibly 15,000 feet or so with an oxygen mask and air bottle. That is probably close to the limit. Doing that you will not incur any problems for a while. Eventually you will get notices in the mail of violating air flight restrictions from the FAA or who ever regulates the activities of private pilots in your country.
They will most likely require you to have a license to do all this.

15,000 feet of altitude is about 3 miles up. Space begins around 50 - 80 miles up. So you will not ever achieve space with this flying rig. Doing that requires a special kind of powerful aircraft and pressurized compartment for the pilot.
It is way beyond the capabilities of most private pilots.

Answer 5

Actually, people have died in planes flying high when they lost pressure, due to lack of oxygen (which is why airplanes now have oxygen masks). If there were any way to get high enough that the air is virtually nonexistent, you'd die rather quickly; the pressure difference between the interior of your body and the exterior will probably tend to rip your body.

You don't need to get on outer space for this, there are vacuum chambers large enough. They were initially used for developing vacuum tubes, then for testingspace suits (actually, space suits were developed for working in these vacuum chambers, long before space flights...)

Answer 6

The airplane will quit mountain climbing by potential of itself at a definite altitude, long in the previous achieving outer area. As altitude will strengthen, air density falls, which motives the engines to offer much less thrust, and the wings to offer much less bring up. At some altitude, the wings can no longer generate sufficient bring up to make the airplane climb greater, inspite of each and all the ability the engines can nonetheless supply at that altitude. This altitude is the airplane's ceiling altitude, and not something will make it climb bigger than that. attempting to attain the ceiling altitude could be tender, as a results of fact the version between the airplane's optimal speed and its stalling speed gets smaller and smaller as a results of fact the altitude will strengthen. close to the ceiling altitude, the pilot could desire to hold his speed very precisely, in any different case he will the two stall or overspeed in the airplane. it particularly is reported as being in the "coffin corner," for motives you may nicely think of. There are no longer any airplane, defense force or in any different case, that could fly outdoors the ambience, even below the main suited secret situations. by potential of definition, airplane breathe air and rely on air for bring up, so they won't be able to go away the ambience. Pressurization is a separate question. some airplane with pressurized cabins have an operational ceiling imposed by potential of barriers of the pressurization equipment, quite than airplane overall performance. those airplane could be waiting to attain fairly bigger altitudes with the cabin pressurization grew to become off.

Answer 7

Since the lithosphere means the solid part of the Earth, AKA the ground, I have to agree with your added details; this doesn't make any sense.

Answer 8

The cold would kill you