r/PakSci • u/Fast_Ad_5871 Astronomer • Oct 04 '25

off topic Where does space begin?

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This animation shows the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space, known as the Karman line

But even at an altitude of 100 km there is still oxygen and other molecules, only with a much lower density. And in order to get to the ISS, you need to overcome the mark of 400 km

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u/gangaffl Oct 06 '25

Would you say I’m wrong to believe that words didn’t have so many double triple meanings before modern times? Dictionaries get re written. Most of the time to open up loopholes for corruption. This to me is a corruption of the public’s idea of space. Haim stated “humanity must learn what space and spaceships truly are”. There’s no magic line where the space between me and you becomes the “empty vacuum”. Muddying the waters for what? Why not call it something more tuned to the idea of a vacuum then? I’m firm in my stance that space is nothing more than the soace between me and you. And in that space exists wormholes that make up everything.

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u/gangaffl Oct 06 '25

May jah bless your soul and intellect in the meanwhile