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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 52 points 9 months ago

Fun fact: it does fall down ! Everything falls down due to gravity. Think of the atmosphere as another ocean, the fluid dynamics you can see in water apply to all the gases around us too.

What we consider air and oxygen are floating in the gas soup at ground level and they have specific densities which causes them to separate... i.e. when you climb a mountain oxygen levels go DOWN!

[-] linucs@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the explanation, would love me some gas soup

[-] Happenchance@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Open wide. You got some right now.

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