Tag: atmosphere
Why Do We Not Spontaneously Combust?
James Lovelock has pointed out that atmospheric levels of oxygen much above about 25 percent, let alone 30 percent, would cause raging conflagrations today.
By Design, Earth Is a Planet Fit for Fire
As we have seen so far in this series, fire was an absolutely crucial component in humanity’s rise to civilization and technology.
Is Space Travel Our Destiny?
I was motivated to do this study after two papers were published in 2018 on the difficulty of launching rockets from super-earths.
Before Natural Selection There Was, and Remains, a Mystery
Bradley and Marks offer an uncommonly clear discussion of the problem of the early Earth’s atmosphere, and why materialist theories stumble on the ancient rocks.
Denton: Science on Venus?
NASA has announced a scheme to fly manned airships in the upper atmosphere of the otherwise “hellish” planet.