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>>16002947
but anon, the vacuum of space is cold, and as the atmospheric air goes up, with less air being present and nowhere else to get energy from, the air cools adiabetically. Meaning that the air becomes colder as you go up and goes against whatever rant you did earlier.
>what about my one hypothetical atom losing energy?
It doesn't matter as we're dealing with a large number ensemble in our case, the molecule will just bump into one another and statistical mechanics dominate rather than the individual atoms doing work instead. Please read up on undergraduate stat mech next time to not embarass yourself.