Let’s suppose we could dump enough “breathable” air (whatever that means for humans) into the solar system that it filled the spaces between planets.

What would happen?

A - I imagine it would then become possible to fly airplanes between planets, perhaps balloons? Would space travel become easier or harder?

B - According to another lemmy post, we would start to hear sound waves from the sun (A constant jackhammer sound - delightful)

C - Each each planet become the center of some mega cyclone (like the Jupiter storms, but bigger)?

D - At some point the air above us wouldn’t be pushing down onto the earth at sea level, could we survive the additional pressure?

  • jetOPAEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’ve been thinking about this alot, so if we change the scenario to the solar systems collides with a huge cloud of air just drifting in space, we would see the blue sky on the moving interface as the air spreads though the solar system.

    It’s quite magical in the minds eye.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Gradually gliding into a gaseous cloud that the sun lights up would be genuinely fascinating, but still probably kill everyone. Pros and cons.

      … would it affect the northern hemisphere first? I have no idea which direction the solar system actually proceeds.

      • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
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        3 months ago

        most everything in the milky way galaxy is orbiting the center of the galaxy clockwise relative to our north*, so we’d probably enter the gas cloud from the side by drifting into it faster than it is moving

        *that’s orbital north, the direction that’s perpendicular to orbit and close-ish to the magnetic north pole (which is tilted relative to the orbit)