Topic: What if air is just a really thin liquid
Meta !Sober//iZs started this discussion 7 years ago #82,996
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Isn't it though?
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I sometimes watch the clouds come in from the ocean in the evening. They break up as they encounter the day's heat rising off the land. Depending on the winds and the temperature, they break up in different ways as they come in over the coastline. Sometimes they separate into repeating bands parallel to the beach. Sometimes they disintegrate into smaller and smaller little clouds over the land. Sometimes they just rise up and get fainter and fainter as they move inland. With a little practice, you can read the temperature and prevailing winds and track the coastline just by watching the clouds. The whole show isn't too different from waves lapping the shore, except it is written across the sky.
Sometimes I wonder if an alien used to the vacuum of space would look at our thick atmosphere like an ocean and regard us as we regard the strange creatures that live on the ocean bottom. Would they look at us and wonder at how we are built to withstand such pressures of the deep? Would they wonder how we live in a pressurized soup of stormy gases? "What a strange way to live," they might think, "unable to rise up above and doomed to crawl around on the bottom and wait for things to fall on you."
Sometimes I wonder if an alien used to the vacuum of space would look at our thick atmosphere like an ocean and regard us as we regard the strange creatures that live on the ocean bottom. Would they look at us and wonder at how we are built to withstand such pressures of the deep? Would they wonder how we live in a pressurized soup of stormy gases? "What a strange way to live," they might think, "unable to rise up above and doomed to crawl around on the bottom and wait for things to fall on you."
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*vap vap vap vap* that's how it sound in Romania