tmosp keeps us  it, Eartemperature of minus 60 degrees Fa. In addition,tmosps incoming sraviolet rays, and togetmospto a fifteen-foot tective concrete, and  it tors fromspace iny daggers. Even raindrops  for tmosphere’s slowing drag.

    t striking t our atmosp t very muc. It extendsup 120 miles, eous andard desktop globe it  ts of varnish.

    For scientific convenience, tmospo four unequal layers: tropospratospen called troposp t’s dear to us. It alone contains enougo alloo function, t sly becomes uncongenial to life as you climb up t.

    From ground level to its  point, tropospurning sp ten milest tor and no more temperate latitudes mospually all ter, and tually all tained mucween you and oblivion.

    Beyond tropospratospop of a storm cloudflattening out into t tropospratospropopause and . Pause int mean to stop momentarily but to cease altoget’s from t as menopause. Even at its greatest extent, tropopause is not very distant. A fastelevator of t used in modern skyscrapers could get you t ty minutes,t to make trip. Suc pressurization  t, result in severe cerebral and pulmonary edemas, adangerous excess of fluids in tissues.  tform, anyone inside  certainly be dead or dying. Even a more measuredascent  deal of discomfort. temperature six miles up canbe -70 degrees Fa, and you  least very muce,supplementary oxygen.

    After you  tropospemperature soon o about 40degrees Fa, to tive effects of ozone (sometdiscovered on ). It to as loing to 2,700 degrees F