??? I don't understand... what hasn't got mass?
I think planets the size of Jupiter are massive enough to prevent hydrogen & helium escaping.
Also, *checks wikipedia* how close you are to a star affects it too: so the gas molecules will be more energetic.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:00,
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I'm not arguing!
I thought a molecule of helium was, by it's very existance, heavier than the vacuum of space and would therefore be trapped by gravity at some height. I'm no expert and if you say I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:06,
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I'm not arguing either!
:)
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:08,
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I think it gets enough escape velocity to get away
Perhaps at the height at which it stops rising up through the stuffmospheres the gravity is insufficient to keep it in...
...maybe. But as you say, bigger ladders!
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:12,
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If gravity worked like that we'd be permanently stuck to anything more massive than ourselves.
Gravity is very, very weak.
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Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:44,
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My sofa
Has a huge gravitational pull. Explain that.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:56,
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It's fucking massive?
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 13:10,
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It is actually,
and so is my arse, so I guess me sitting around all day is down to SCIENCE.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 13:41,
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Also lots of boring guff about weight and mass not being the same thing.
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Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:46,
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That is not boring!
It might give me diet excuses.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:51,
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