Quote (Santara @ Apr 25 2017 01:00pm)
It's an "open environment" in that there isn't a physical barrier between the atmosphere and space, that is true.
that's it , you get it, stop now ok.
Quote (Santara @ Apr 25 2017 01:00pm)
But it functions exactly like a closed environment, so it doesn't need a physical barrier.
nope, you were so close - this is the lie.
Quote (Santara @ Apr 25 2017 01:00pm)
a perfect vacuum pump can only lift water 33.9 feet above sea level (vacuum next to a pressurized body, no different than outer spaceand our atmosphere for all practical purposes).
This is because you (a man-child) has placed a vacuum next to water, this is not something nature makes. Nature does not make vacuums, nature abhors them actually. And the water you have lifted is not a vacuum just because you used a vacuum pump.

This sounds like some excuse you got from a debunking website because its especially wacky, even more so than your normal rhetoric.
I found this on the intent
"a total vacuum cannot be created over water. As the pressure is reduced, the boiling point of the water is lowered, producing a layer of water vapor between the water's surface and the pump."
and the height of water pumped using a "vacuum pump" is limited by air pressure at sea, so comparing it to the thin air in high altitude vs the near perfect vacuum of space does not make the difference act like a solid structure. It just pressure differnce, exactly what i've been saying forever that it has nothing to do with your blind faith in the world gravity - therefore it must be a thing.
Quote (Santara @ Apr 25 2017 01:00pm)
The perfect (or near enough to be perfect) vacuum of outer space simply isn't strong enough to overcome the gravitational pull of the Earth, therefore the atmosphere is, for all intents and purposes, a closed environment.
But in all experiments, vacuums prove more powerful than gravity, so for all intents and purposes, your argument is moot, you have no point, you have not "explained" things i didn't already know, the difference is that you believe the excuse - i look at it and recognize it for the pile of BS you're expected to believe.
This post was edited by card_sultan on Apr 25 2017 05:56pm