we have a hole in our ozone layer yes
then why doesnt all the air stuck up into space

You know that class you slept through in school. That was science class.
WAKE_UP!

broken ozone layer
i was one of the only ones who pay attention but still y doesnt air stuck up in space air is weightless so gravity cant affect it

I never knew we had a broken ozone layer....I need to pay attention!

yeah its in the north pole or the south
thats why the icecap is melting and if the heatwave doesnt kill us a flood will cover the world and if THAT doesnt work a huge gas bubble will collide with earth killing us or mutateing us
the world sure doesnt like us does it
see i do pay attaention in science just not R.S. or maths

Ah , Air is made from air molecules that have mass and there for are affected ( held down) by gravity. Ozone is an oxygen molecule with three electrons instead of two. the ozone layer reflects some of the ultraviolet spectrum of the sun . If It didn't you would be a French Fry and some one would EAT YOU!

umm if thats ture all air woud be on the ground and we would allbe dead or crawling on the floor all day

It is and some of us are.

Jeez... what do they teach in school today...

All air on earth IS grounded. Now, if you put a pile of bricks on top of each other, they don't form a 1 inch line, down at the ground, do they? It's the same with air. Air molecules stack together on top of each other. Now what's there not to understand?

And WHERE did you get that gas bubble from? If you paid any attention in class, you'd not be asking these questions.

You're right about the other stuff... but you're wrong there. Ozone is not an oxygen molecule with three electrons instead of two... Ozone is O3, which is 3 atoms of oxygen. Oxygen can not be a single atom molecule. If it had 3 electrons intead of 2, it'd have a negative charge too, btw.



What grade are you in?

I cast my vote for grade 3 and a run-down innercity middle school where all the computers are made of wood.

Didn't you know that from 1973 NASA is regularly spraying special gas into the air near the hole in the ozone, so that the air there would be heavy and not be sucked in.

Also the Russian scientists are looking forward to stitch up the hole, yet they can't find a needle big enough.

the gas bubble was from the gueniienes book of nature near to the back
and im in year 8

Sheesh! That's not true! Don't you remember? We have the Space Needle now! That's why they're working on the International Space Station. So they'll have something to hold the thread and a place to lay the scissors!

Loretta

You are 8 or you're in grade 8?

Honestly, I dont mean any offence, but there wasnt one person in my class in grade 8 that couldnt figure this out...

Even if you don't know the exact answer, manticore you should be able to figure out that if air regularly got sucked into space, then space would be full of air and we could breathe freely out there. The fact that this isn't the case should tell you something..

Gas atoms have mass, the same as any other atoms. Air, therefore has the weight that gravity from the Earth imparts on it. This keeps the majority of the air, the densest layer of it, close to the ground. As we get farther away from the ground, the gravity lessens, and the air becomes less dense. This is why high-speed aircraft fly so high; there is less air, therefore less mass to push aside. Very little air is lost to outer space, because the gravity of the earth is strong enough to hold it close. Smaller objects such as comets and asteroids, regularly loose their gases to space, because their gravity is not strong enough to hold it in. The tails that you see on comets are composed largely of the gases escaping from them.

In regards to the ozone layer, this is simply another layer of air that has the beneficial quality of blocking certain rays from the sun that would be harmful to us over an extended period. It is not a dome of any kind, and it neither prevents nor allows air to escape from earth. It merely hovers at it's altitude, like every other gas. The hole that is being referred to by scientists is an area where the ozone molecules are being destroyed by other molecules, creating an area where the harmful rays from the sun can go through unfiltered. It is similar to having a scratch on your sunglasses; it gives the unfiltered light free access and thus fails to protect you.

Uhh, you should read/research more upon what you are saying before you start posting. A simple trip to the library (you know, that building with all them books) will help delve further your stance on the subject or do you get headaches when you walk in or did you not even know such things existed? If the air was to be sucked out what is to prevent people from being sucked out?

I think we'll eventually ruin the earth and die...won't that be pleasant...*snort*