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Now my real question is why aren't we all sucked up and out through the so-called "hole in the ozone"...or better yet, through the hole that a space ship creates when it breaks out of our atmosphere?....Just wondering...

2007-09-05 19:20:47 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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They don't "break a hole in the atmosphere". And even if they did, it would be tiny compared to the mass of the atmosphere on the planet.

The hole in the ozone layer is not a hole in the atmosphere. It is a place where what's called ozone (which is made up of 3 oxygen atoms, as oppose to molecular oxygen which is made up of 2 atoms) has been thinned. Must rush, but I'm sure someone else will fill you in.

2007-09-05 19:27:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

First off: No, everything and everybody doesn't get sucked out of a jet that loses a window or a door. It -does- get real windy and cold and pretty exciting for a few minutes, but the only time someone would be pulled out is if they were standing next to a door that blew out. It's nothing at all like what you see in the movies.

As far as your other question goes, it's for the same reason that fish don't get sucked up out of the Ocean every time a diver comes up and climbs onto his boat ☺

Doug

2007-09-06 02:37:47 · answer #2 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 3 0

now uve got a wrong impression of the hole in Ozone...hole in ozozne means that UV rays can enter the earth..ur thinking that Ozone keeps the atmosphere together and a hole in ozone means that all the air ecscapes like air in a balloon...thats wrong...

air is around us because of earth's gravity..and is slowly escaping (very very slowly...so slowly that itll take another 100billion billion years for earth to not have an atmosphere)...

and abt the spaceship..yes everybody and everything would be sucked out because the air inside the spaceship rushes out...and the air inside tries humans also tries to come out everywhere and i think any human will explode into bits so small that they cant be seen...

2007-09-06 03:30:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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