Why a Half-Million-Kilogram Cloud Hovers
500,000 kilograms can hover. That sounds like a violation of common sense, until the mass is spread through a vast volume of air rather than packed into one falling object. A cloud is not a solid load. It is a dispersed suspension of microscopic water droplets, each so light that air resistance can contest gravity.The real trick is scale. Individual cloud droplets are often only a few micrometers ...More
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