Not necessarily! Gravitational pull also comes from the pull of the sun as well (hence that oblong shape) and the other planets (much weaker).
It can be challenging teaching this to a child (or a moron), but that shouldn't stop people from sharing facts and discovering more. If we let that stop us from progressing we wouldn't get anywhere. We shouldn't have to cater to the slowest buffalo, but rather progress in spite of their lack of understanding, and help them down the road.
The "tail" comes from solar wind just like cometary tails. There's even a picture showing this plan-view style in the article. Tidal effects are no doubt there but the overall impact is tiny compared to tidal warping of earth and water.
Yes, absolutely. Agreed.
By letting midwit-at-best journalists, producers, editors, etc filter out the "big words" and "hard stuff", science just becomes masturbatory fluff for getting clicks and likes on social media. And that's really what I'd call this headline, nothing but clickbait "OMG WAO WE'VE NEVER LEFT ERFS ATMOSPHERS WAU".
This was written by OP. The article goes into a bit more explanation as to what it means that the earth's atmosphere extends further than we expected. I do agree that OP's title is clickbaity nonsense, but that's on him, not the writer of the article.
Correct, That is the headline, which is true, and not as clickbaity
The faux headline of "We'Ve NeVeR LeFt tHe AtmOsPheRe" (same as the one that OP wrote) is more misleading, and I'll explain why.
A headline saying "we've never left earth's atmosphere" is terrible clickbait, because for most people's understanding, the atmosphere does not go past the moon, so now a moron or a child walks away from the title of an article thinking that we've never gone to space or landed on the moon.
However, the headline "earth's atmosphere goes past the moon" is still true, but the atmosphere that reaches further is so thin it's barely even perceived. Technically, the moon and surrounding space are still in the earth's atmosphere, so from this fact, we can technically say that we've never left earth's atmosphere, but the required explanation of why that sentence is true needs to come first. The clickbaity "We've never left earth's atmosphere" line is literally the last line of the article, after all of the explanation about what the scientists have found.
Not necessarily! Gravitational pull also comes from the pull of the sun as well (hence that oblong shape) and the other planets (much weaker).
It can be challenging teaching this to a child (or a moron), but that shouldn't stop people from sharing facts and discovering more. If we let that stop us from progressing we wouldn't get anywhere. We shouldn't have to cater to the slowest buffalo, but rather progress in spite of their lack of understanding, and help them down the road.
Yes, absolutely. Agreed.
This was written by OP. The article goes into a bit more explanation as to what it means that the earth's atmosphere extends further than we expected. I do agree that OP's title is clickbaity nonsense, but that's on him, not the writer of the article.
Correct, That is the headline, which is true, and not as clickbaity
The faux headline of "We'Ve NeVeR LeFt tHe AtmOsPheRe" (same as the one that OP wrote) is more misleading, and I'll explain why.
A headline saying "we've never left earth's atmosphere" is terrible clickbait, because for most people's understanding, the atmosphere does not go past the moon, so now a moron or a child walks away from the title of an article thinking that we've never gone to space or landed on the moon.
However, the headline "earth's atmosphere goes past the moon" is still true, but the atmosphere that reaches further is so thin it's barely even perceived. Technically, the moon and surrounding space are still in the earth's atmosphere, so from this fact, we can technically say that we've never left earth's atmosphere, but the required explanation of why that sentence is true needs to come first. The clickbaity "We've never left earth's atmosphere" line is literally the last line of the article, after all of the explanation about what the scientists have found.