Stratosphere
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I was there to view something called a long-duration balloon flight, which basically takes telescopes and instruments all the way to the upper atmosphere, the upper stratosphere, 40 km up.
And basically, if you throw chalk up into the stratosphere, it comes down in a couple of years all by itself, dissolved in rainwater.
You can send weather balloons up into the stratosphere, collect microbes, see what's up there.
And if you don't know Colleen, she's an artist, and I asked her, "Well, what's it like out there in the
stratosphere
of our idea space?"
That put a whole bunch of sulfur in the
stratosphere
with a sort of atomic bomb-like cloud.
We can move things out of the
stratosphere
into the mesosphere, in principle solving the ozone problem.
There's a good match because we understand the physics that controls the temperatures in the
stratosphere
and what that does to the winds around the southern oceans.
The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 put an enormous amount of aerosols, small particles, into the
stratosphere.
I could go through a dozen more examples: the skill associated with solar cycles, changing the ozone in the stratosphere; the skill associated with orbital changes over 6,000 years.
That place is called the
stratosphere.
It gets colder at a much slower rate, and then it starts warming up, and then it gets warmer and warmer until the point where you can almost survive without any protection, about zero degrees, and then you end up getting colder and colder, and that's the top of the
stratosphere.
But the question I asked is, is it possible to linger in the
stratosphere?
Is it possible to experience the
stratosphere?
Is it possible to explore the
stratosphere?
It was a reference from a friend of mine to call Taber MacCallum from Paragon Space Development Corporation, and I asked him the question: is it possible to build a system to go into the
stratosphere?
And that scuba is exactly this system, and we're going to launch it into the
stratosphere.
So the system weighs about 500 pounds, and if you compare it to the other attempt recently to go up in the stratosphere, they used a capsule.
If that were true, the
stratosphere
would be heated as well as the lower atmosphere, if it's more coming in.
Here's the stratosphere: cooler.
It turns out the
stratosphere
has winds that are going in quite different speeds and directions in thin strata.
And it's exploring without polluting the
stratosphere.
To put sulfur dioxide in the
stratosphere
would cost on the order of a billion dollars a year.
For me, "Blood Simple", "Fargo" and "No Country..." live in a special Coen
stratosphere.
But it is the writing that puts it in the
stratosphere.
The other geoengineering idea, solar radiation management (SRM), envisions cooling Earth by putting mirrors in space, pumping salt spray from ships into clouds to make them brighter, or filling the
stratosphere
with a sulfuric acid cloud, just as volcanic eruptions occasionally do.
But volcanic eruptions teach us that, while a cloud in the
stratosphere
would indeed cool the planet and stop ice from melting and the sea from rising, it would also destroy ozone and produce regional droughts.
There are other potential problems with SRM in the
stratosphere.
Moreover, world oil prices that had fallen to $10 a barrel started rising toward the
stratosphere.
According to the Royal Society in Britain, releasing sulfur particles into the
stratosphere
would probably be the most cost-effective method.
The US problem is simple: stocks are in the
stratosphere.
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