Earth’s atmospheric temperature is not what this person is talking about. The temperature outside your door depends on the sun, sure, but it’s due to Earth’s atmosphere. Go 60 miles towards “up” and the temperature of space is not the 68 degrees it is on the ground.
I think OP is questioning the temperature of the vacuum of space near the Sun. It doesn’t really work like that though.
To expand on the “doesn’t work like that” part: In the vacuum of space there is no air to exchange warmth with your body, or your space suit. You might be comfy on the side of your body facing the sun (if you’re at that distance where it provides the right amount of radiative heat) but the side facing away from the sun will get no heat, and therefore be cold. I imagine that would feel very weird… if you could feel it on your skin, without a space suit, without being ripped apart by the vacuum, of course.
Does anyone know whether this “uneven distribution of heat energy” is a problem for space suits or if that little bit of air inside is enough to distribute it?
There are glacier fed lakes when i live. You can float in incredibly cold water and if you have just the right equilibrium you can half float in freezing cold water while half getting a nice sun bath. And it IS very weird.
One spot I camped at for many years had nice sandy area that was about 200 meters out into the lake before a drop off. As it was only about a meter deep it used to warm up the top foot or so of the water when it was fairly still and you could stick your arm down into the water and actually feel the temperature drop like there was a line underneath the water.
Was great place to camp before it got overwhelmed by mosquitos
We’re gonna find out one way or another. They already released genetically modified mosquito into the normal mosquito population several years ago. If everything goes to plan, those specific species of mosquitoes, that also happen to bite humans, should completely die out in the next 100-200 generations.
I have no idea how short a mosquito generation is, but I suspect that means 50-200 years.
Entomologists will always be happy to write about it.
Let’s say about a 50 day lifespan, that’s roughly seven generations in a year, so maybe about 14 years? If the bitey mosquitoes aren’t gone, at least the worst of the world leaders should hopefully be dead by then.
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