Talk:Thermosphere

message: The thermosphere is 50 miles long
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The phrase "Even though the temperature is so high, one would not feel warm in the thermosphere, because it is so near vacuum that there is not enough contact with the few atoms of gas to transfer much heat." should be improved or removed alltogether. The style is very unprecise ("so high", "so near vacuum", etc) and talking about a human "feeling warm" in such an environement would imply you answer 'how' would a person get in contact with such media. Temperature has a clear physical definition, "feeling temperature" not. See also my comment 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Earth's_atmosphere#Temperature_and_layers:_temperature_feeling.3F
in the discussion page of the Earth's atmosphere article.
Aog2000a (talk) 23:23, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Why don't you explain how the temperature is determined instead of removing information that appears to be correct? The article says that a regular thermometers will show a temperature below freezing, perhaps you can explain this better. Q Science (talk) 08:06, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: This article states the thermosphere is the largest part of earth atmosphere without a source... I'm pretty sure the exosphere is the largest. I'd like a confirmation on that. --GreenLineMan  (talk) 01:16, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biggest? 

message: In the first section of this article there is a contradiction regarding the high temperatures of this stratum. There are no specific sources listed, and I don't know which claim is correct.
"Temperatures are highly dependent on solar activity, and can rise to 1,500 °C (2,730 °F)... The highly diluted gas in this layer can reach 2,500 °C (4,530 °F) during the day."
Incidentally, the article also states that thermometers don't work in this area, "due to the energy lost by thermal radiation overtaking the energy acquired from the atmospheric gas by direct contact." Maybe that accounts for the problem. Haha.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spoke9 (talk • contribs) 05:03, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highest Temperature Contradiction 

message: What is the difference between these two. I think they are the same and ionosphere is the more common term. If so these two articles should be merged. Thoughts? Aarghdvaark (talk) 04:47, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thermosphere and ionosphere 

message: The text, which says that the border of thermosphere is 85 km, does not agree with the picture, which gives 95/120 km. Could this be unified, please? --Jan Kameníček (talk) 20:12, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Border of thermosphere 

message: My answer is that it is pretty damned hot. 
Alexei Leonovo was the first man to spacewalk. In a recent televised, broadcast interview he said, 
"I was so hot I thought I was going to die."
That is a first hand account of someone who stepped out into the thermosphere. 
Now we have plenty of experience if this region because of ISS and the HST. We know for a fact that it's very hot. 
Notwithstanding that experience the article on wiki in this topic states that it doesn't feel warm because the air is to thin to conduct heat. 
Hang your head in shame wiki for allowing that entry to stand so long. 
The heat in the thermosphere isn't contingent on air supply. The heat is radiated from the sun.
Perhaps surprisingly, there are some very hot political interests that are invested in maintaining erroneous thought around this subject and obsfucating established science.
Wiki has covered very well much of this tussle, but perhaps failed to clarify the patently obvious. That's not ok.
 Please feel free to talk and contact me in any way convenient for you. 
 Jamie.d (talk) 13:36, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  How hot is the thermosphere? 

message: I could be very wrong here but I really doubt that atomic oxygen or helium or hydrogen "dominate" ANYWHERE inside our atmosphere. But that is exactly what this article claims. First obvious question: where's the nitrogen? where's the molecular oxygen? and etc.75.90.39.77 (talk) 19:37, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Really? 

message: Radiation causes the atmosphere particles in this layer to become electrically charged (see ionosphere), enabling radio waves to be refracted and thus be received beyond the horizon. Should this not say reflected, not refracted.
Pricesmithi (talk) 13:24, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Radio waves reflected by ionospher, not refracted 

message: So we were learning it in class so I wondered what it meant so I just guessed and got in right somehow 2600:100E:B066:8B19:F973:E32A:E4C5:C925 (talk) 21:00, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thermosphere 

message: Ka 2402:4000:B183:1484:ACA5:6B4:BDBE:2908 (talk) 15:03, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aa 

message: The Space Shuttle retired in July 2011; the illustration is archaic. Inasmuch as the Tiangong and the International Space Station provide for permanent habitation of the thermosphere (at least currently), they should be illustrative. kencf0618 (talk) 10:30, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: So I need to know what it is made up of in percentages. Ex. 78% oxygen 2600:1014:B06E:9208:C535:DB37:343F:F4C2 (talk) 01:26, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archaic Graphic