Go Higher

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Rene Descartes

Sometimes I want to relearn things I’ve long forgotten from school. Thankfully, sites like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has articles like “Layers of the Atmosphere” for me to use to refresh my memory. (I’m saving a clouds identification relearn for later). What did I learn? Our Thermosphere is insane with its temperature gradient going between -184F (-120C) to 3,600F (2,000C) degrees. Also, the auroras happen in this layer. Neat.

About the author

Rene Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, logician, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science during the Renaissance era. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry.