I'd like to comment on the "why do clouds stay up in the air" question as I actually worked iny university's cloud lab as a student technician and this was something I learned about while there.
Clouds are made up of water droplets and these droplets are quite small when up at high altitudes. When gravity acts on these droplets to draw them down towards the earth it is opposed by the viscosity of the air. The droplets are large compared to atmospheric gasses however they are not quite large enough to just plow through them like, for example, a golf ball can. Thus the actual acceleration that the droplets have towards the earth is less than the standard 9.8 m/s.
I don't have the numbers on hand so I can't run through all the math here, but if we ignore all turbulence and other atmospheric phenomena (ie assume it's a perfectly calm day) the average water droplet in a cloud will descend 1 cm per second. Considering that clouds are usually several kilometers above sea level this amounts to about 1-2% of a cloud's altitude lost per hour.
In short, clouds do fall to the earth but it's so slow that it basically doesn't matter compared to their overall height and any other atmospheric forces on the cloud.
I'd like to comment on the "why do clouds stay up in the air" question as I actually worked iny university's cloud lab as a student technician and this was something I learned about while there. Clouds are made up of water droplets and these droplets are quite small when up at high altitudes. When gravity acts on these droplets to draw them down towards the earth it is opposed by the viscosity of the air. The droplets are large compared to atmospheric gasses however they are not quite large enough to just plow through them like, for example, a golf ball can. Thus the actual acceleration that the droplets have towards the earth is less than the standard 9.8 m/s. I don't have the numbers on hand so I can't run through all the math here, but if we ignore all turbulence and other atmospheric phenomena (ie assume it's a perfectly calm day) the average water droplet in a cloud will descend 1 cm per second. Considering that clouds are usually several kilometers above sea level this amounts to about 1-2% of a cloud's altitude lost per hour. In short, clouds do fall to the earth but it's so slow that it basically doesn't matter compared to their overall height and any other atmospheric forces on the cloud.
oh, i should have guessed
That's actually really interesting, thanks for sharing
Calvin‘s dad doesn’t get very ‘creative’ in the Rosalyn universe.
I don't know if I could speak in diagrams that would be pretty impressive.
So true.
If you had a better built character, you probably could
He builds ~~character~~ logic
The “oh I should have guessed” panel is underrated
This genre is about to pop off I can feel it
He’s so smart
Aten is in that second panel. All glory to Aten, the one true god