"Any Atheist who can prove why and how the sky is staying without falling without the help of pillars???
Sky is not resting on pillars, right? So who is keeping this sky afloat on on heads in the middle of nowhere. What is the cause of "sky" hanging without any support?
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What do you think "sky" is, idiot? It's not a solid thing, it's a layer of gas surrounding our planet.
This cannot be real. Please be a Poe.
This one's fairly easy. There's thing, we call it the atmosphere, that is made up of a huge collection of gases that surrounds the earth that is held there due to the fact the Earth generated gravity. When light from the sun hits this, it is dispersed, and our eyes interpret the resulting light as blue.
Um, fucking gravity? Oh wait, that's just a theory. There is no atmosphere. Or if there is, it's Jesus' farts.
Actually, in a sense, the sky IS falling, except that in this case we're talking about gases that are held to earth by the earth's gravity. The reason there is a sky is because it is gases, which happen to be sitting on more gases, which in turn are sitting on still MORE gases, which in turn is sitting on the earth. Are you an atheist now?
What is the cause of "sky" hanging without any support?
See the kinetic theory of gases. For an explanation of the blue glow in sunlight, see Rayleigh scattering.
While we're at it, didn't all of those rockets crash through the sky? Where did the pieces of sky land? Have people cut themselves on those pieces of sky?
Answer me and I will become an atheist. (Oh, wait; I already am.)
I do believe I could actually feel myself lose a few IQ points upon reading this statement.
Nobody could possibly be alive in the 21st century, and seriously ask something so fucking stupid.
The Good News: All religions have something in common.
Dear silkworm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky and then think again about your question.
Thank you
And now I hope my brain recovers.
So Chicken Little's a stupid fundie. That explain two fairy tales.
Notice how you can just walk through the lower atmosphere? Gets thinner as you go up. You won't belief us, which is fine because Atheists don't need your type of logic
promise?
The sky doesn't hang, it recedes into space and has no definitive end. The atmosphere manages to stick around because of gravity, spinning earth, magnetic field.
When I was a little kid I had this series of science books. Of course they were all only a few pages long and mostly pictures, but some of the ones I can remember are "Why is the sky blue?", one about clouds, one about rainbows, and one about lightning and thunder.
I think I should dig those out and send them to this person.
He probably assumes that the sky is a firmament.
If the sky is solid, how the hell do spacecraft leave the Earth? Punch a hole in it?
The sky (a.k.a. the Earth's atmosphere) is NOT a solid object akin to a roof of a house. It is a mixture of gases - namely nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone, argon, xenon and a few others - that are held to the Earth's surface by gravity and extend as a breathable layer up from the surface to approximately 24,000 feet, above which humans require supplemental oxygen or artificial pressurization to survive. But the atmosphere doesn't end there; it continues on up continuously thinning as it goes. It is accepted international convention that the atmosphere ends at an altitude of 62 statute miles and space begins, but atoms of our planet's atmosphere are routinely detected by research spacecraft out at the distance of our Moon, which orbits the Earth at an average distance of some 248,000 miles.
Though the atmosphere seems quite massive and huge for we relatively small creatures in reality it's an exceptionally thin structure for it's size. To give some sense of it's scale, if you took a display globe of our World, say one the order of size of what you might find in a typical library or school classroom, the Earth's atmosphere on that globe in scale representation would be no thicker than the protective coat of varnish that covers it.
I'll take science and the wonderful, amazing realities of the Cosmos over the sad, small-minded superstitions of religion any day, Silkworm...
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*facepalmheaddeskbullettobrain*
This guy just has to be practicing "cargo cult computing." There's no way a human being that ignorant and idiotic could know how to operate a computer properly. Maybe we need to make computers harder to use: Sell the hardware unassembled, and make the user install Gentoo on it when they finally get it put together right.
Air pressure keeps the sky up. Earth's magnetic field keeps it from being blasted away by solar storms.
Sky is not resting on pillars, right.
Remember, I'm a language nerd, I know very little of science. OK?up , gravity rather keeps it down , near us.
Are you an atheist yet? Nah, didn't think so. Did you miss every single scientist class during all of your schooling? This is third-year stuff.
The "sky" is a mixture of different gases, gases are less dense than the earth, which is solid. Therefore, the sky stays above the earth and gas is also held up by gravity. You can't be this stupid, right?
"Sky is not resting on pillars, right? So who is keeping this sky afloat on on heads in the middle of nowhere. What is the cause of "sky" hanging without any support?
Air & gas density, coupled with the gravitational pull of the Earth. Now here's your complimentary copy of "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. Read it well. Oh, and see you as a fellow commenter here on FSTDT, silkworm.
'All too easy.'
-Darth Vader, "Star Wars" ep. IV
'Simple.'
-Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood), "Firefox"
The sky is not a dome that needs to be kept up, stupid. It's gases that are kept down by gravity.
Welcome to the Atheist Club, we don't have badges or anything, we just lack belief in any and all gods.
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PS: It is suspended from a flying saucer (via tractor beam).
The sky is made of air. So it doesn't need held up; it just sort of sits on top of the earth.
As with all things that sit on the earth, the reason it doesn't float away is gravity.
Confused?
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