020 = Filling Up and Falling Down
A Problem Squared
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The Effect of Atmospheric Pressure on the Earth
Technically, you absolutely could just add enough nitrogen and enough oxygen or whatever gas to dilute the atmosphere. People argue once you go up six or so kilometers, you've already gone past like half the atmosphere by mass because it's so much denser down low. But officially, it doesn't end for like a hundred kilometers up. And so let me make sure you would have to increase the atmosphere about 85 times as much. If anyone's got a better analogy, keep it to yourself.
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