Talk:Local Interstellar Cloud

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[edit] Question

If this cloud is so hot does it have any effect on the Earth as we move through it? Kevlar67 00:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, the cloud is relatively cool. The Local Bubble is much hotter, but even less dense. The effect of the Interstellar medium in general has much more to do with its density, and subsequent effect on the Sun's magnetic field, than it does with its temperature. At these densities, there's not much heat to be transferred over relatively small volumes. TCC (talk) (contribs) 01:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Units of measurement

Given that the Interstellar-Medium (surely a -Large, or even -Ginormous?) gives the relative density in molecules per cubic meter, should this article's measurement of density also be the same?

Tim

[edit] Standard temperature and pressure

I don't understand what it means to say that "The cloud has a temperature (at STP) of 6000° C". STP is defined as a temperature of 20 C. How can a thing have a temperature of 6,000 C at a temperature of 20 C?

If this is not an error, it needs to be explained better.

Agemegos (talk) 02:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)