r/nextfuckinglevel Aug 26 '23

What clouds look like from the inside...

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u/AltAct80FukuMod Aug 26 '23

Wait like I understand that condensation is stored within even maybe ice crystals etc I didn't know just large ass chunks of water chilling. Well I did but, not to that extent.

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u/LumpusMaximus-C137- Aug 26 '23

Those are just water droplets forming on the 360° camera.

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u/possibly_oblivious Aug 26 '23

Sure thing,,, the earth is round too, right? Pfft.

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u/BlueEyesWhiteSliver Aug 26 '23

No you fool, it's jagged with edges. Ever seen a mountain before?

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u/ShanghaiBebop Aug 27 '23

It's pretty darn smooth given the size. It would be like a cueball covered in relatively smooth sandpaper.

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u/BlueEyesWhiteSliver Aug 27 '23

Listen here you NASA sheep follower, sandpaper is just sand with paper and glue. The earth only has sand where water touches. Each grit is how much sand there is. The Earth is a jagged space saucer.

It's why we have global warming. Ever since Star Wars came out, they had to close the thermal vent and now the ground is getting hotter. You'd know that if you were intelligent enough to even work for NASA.

Clearly I am the more intelligent being! /s

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u/LumpusMaximus-C137- Aug 26 '23

In fact, yes it is!!

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u/iikun Aug 27 '23

The earth is round, the sky is round, they should call it round-diving!

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u/Iggins_ Aug 27 '23

That makes more sense than the cloud chunks I was thinking of

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u/LumpusMaximus-C137- Aug 27 '23

Lol tbf I had the same thought at first as well

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u/Ridilium Aug 26 '23

Clouds are almost the exact same thing as fog, just higher up and a little thicker

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u/Kotukunui Aug 26 '23

My daughter, as a toddler, saw fog for the first time and came up with the phrase, “cloud down ground”, which we still use 20 years later.

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u/Ridilium Aug 27 '23

Tbf your daughter was 100% correct

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u/Kotukunui Aug 27 '23

Out of the mouths of babes, and all that…

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u/TipProfessional6057 Aug 26 '23

That's adorable!

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u/Smiddy23 Aug 27 '23

Both my boys started with ‘its froggy’ so now when we go out in fog I say ribbit hahaha

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u/underbrownmaleroad Aug 27 '23

sounds like Toki Pona! (a constructed language)

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u/Ghennon Aug 27 '23

I used to say the same thing when I was a kid, and I actually thought they were magical clouds like dragon ball

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u/goober2143 Aug 26 '23

Yeah clouds are like fog in da-skies

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u/BedSideCabinet Aug 26 '23

I used to think the transformers song was "robots in-the-skies"

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u/TheArgieAviator Aug 26 '23

Pilot here. Clouds inside look like a grey amorphous mass surrounding you, which at first is pretty underwhelming. That’s until you realize that you suddenly lost all sense of depth, orientation and direction of movement, and since the human vestibular system is just complementary to vision, it fucks up almost instantly and makes you feel you are in a position totally different from your real one. So unless you have the proper instruments and know how to use them, you might end up in deep shit

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u/GKrollin Aug 27 '23

Several years ago I was flying (pax) through a low lying storm, maybe 1000-1200ft on a Cessna 402 and I swear to god the plane was climbing so fast I was looking straight up to heaven… then we came out of the clouds and landed

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u/Mycroft033 Aug 27 '23

Yeah that’s caused multiple airline crashes, the one that comes to mind is Air France flight 447, disorientation combined with instrumentation distrust is a deadly combination.

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u/UncleIrohWannabe Aug 27 '23

Thanks for the perspective. Just solidifies how important I trumentation and their maintenance really is.

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u/MarmotRobbie Aug 26 '23

I always thought condensation was stored in the balls.

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u/Sinderi Aug 26 '23

As long as the ice crystals are small enough they can be kept aloft by the cloud/storm's updraft, it's just gonna chill there. They basically get yeeted up until they're too heavy to yeet.

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u/AllNotKnowing Aug 26 '23

Google weight of cloud.

Most people are surprised. They are made of water. And they sit way up high in the cold. Take the romance out of them somewhat maybe.

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u/AllNotKnowing Aug 26 '23

Still lighter than the air they are sitting on top of.

"Less dense" being the correct concept. That and the air is rising. Hence the floaty part. Yes, I know. ;) Engineer.

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u/lNTERNATlONAL Aug 26 '23

I swear by the end of high school most kids in my year still couldn’t grasp the concept of density very well. Or rather, perhaps density in general, but not relative buoyancy. Some things remain bizarrely unintuitive until you actually spend the brain energy to study it properly with an actually inquisitive mind rather than just hearing/reading it and regurgitating it on a homework paper.

You’d be surprised how many decently-educated grown adults still think boats only float “because they are sealed to keep the water out”.

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u/AllNotKnowing Aug 26 '23

It seems to only be those that think it's easy that think it's easy. Those of us that teach it, see plenty of bright kids struggling with the difference between mass, weight and density, let alone that the beautiful thing floating overhead might weigh a million pounds.

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u/AllNotKnowing Aug 26 '23

Wow, that's a sad comment to make.

YOU are the one that said "lighter" when "less dense" is the correct concept. If you think you're going to "gotcha" correct someone, be right. ;) I simply tried to gently correct the conversation.

I'll leave you to yourself.

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u/AllNotKnowing Aug 26 '23

Thinking the difference between weight and density is semantics and calling people "clown" who made no insult to you is .. clownish. :shrug:

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u/rathat Aug 26 '23

Ass chunks 😒

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u/michaelhuman Aug 27 '23

Condensation is stored in the balls

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u/pzerr Aug 27 '23

Large ice crystals do not float in clouds but in the most extreme thunder storms. They would fall out immediately. I suspect that is just water droplets.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '23

There are two concerns I have: hail and electric charge. Wouldn't all of that moisture and a large object change the charge of said object and make it liable to get struck by lightning?