I keep on seeing atmospheric holes, where patches have to use an ‘Other’ component to make up for the atmospheric elements not adding up to 100%. This is mainly a glitch with gas change, but I think it does provide the possibility of trying to make this influence pressure in some way. The total amount of gas in an atmosphere will always add up to 100%, but the pressure will change if the absolute quantity changes. Right?
I’m not sure how this would play out on a long scale, with the entire planetary atmosphere. I know long-term carbon quantities change, due to factors like carbon being buried to form fossil fuels and due to erosion creating new compounds, but does that make the total atmosphere change, or does it just mean more O2 is missing a C?
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aah31415
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I think the pressure overall would stay roughly the same, unless there are some insane-scale volcanic events and such.
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Deathwake
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The pressure wouldn’t change from either photosynthesizing new CO2 or metabolizing that into O2, but nitrogenating out nitrogen or using reduction reactions or some other thing that either pulls a compound out of the air into the water or out of the water into the air, permanenly, could yeah, change the pressure slightly.
It wouldn’t be patch by patch though, it would effect the whole planet.
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aah31415
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Right. I wonder when will a proper atmosphere be added into the game…