Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Clouds are made of water Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 21:34:00 +1100 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <7f7ff1a0-9008-487d-bad9-3906d667eab7@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net v2U6Wn3ZjlG8hJgtuIM6oQsCA3ttnFpFwsZN7n2oQVUcrN/zhM Cancel-Lock: sha1:LbgcfvIqkUn18MdrbyNhZJvKz8Q= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:559943 On 7/03/2016 8:04 PM, James McGinn wrote: > On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 12:49:49 AM UTC-8, Sylvia Else wrote: >> On 7/03/2016 6:14 AM, James McGinn wrote: >>> https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/why-the-science-of-clouds-is-still-cloudy/#more-26033 >>> >>> Clouds are made of water. Current models of water maintain over 60 >>> anomalies. That is 60 as in a six with a zero behind it. That is 5 >>> to 10 times more anomalies than any other substance. Obviously if >>> the current models fail to account for the behavior of H2O then it's >>> not likely we are going to get a handle on clouds any time soon. >>> >> >> If this were true, then anyone who climbed into a cloud (as up a >> mountain, say) would drown. Mountain climbing is dangerous, but I'm not >> aware of anyone drowning while climbing one. >> >> Sylvia. > > It's not 100% water. You don't drown in fog do you? Steam room? > So it's made of water and other stuff. That's not what you said. Sylvia.