Can you drowned in a cloud?

In 2007, Wisnierska
Wisnierska
She is mostly known for having survived extreme cold, lightning and lack of oxygen during an ascent to almost 10,000 metres (33,000 ft) inside a cumulonimbus cloud. Wiśnierska lives in Aschau im Chiemgau, Bavaria, where she teaches paragliding and runs a company which offers courses in personal development.
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-Ciesleqicz, a Polish paraglider who was practicing for a paragliding contest in Australia, found herself accidentally sucked up into a cumulonimbus cloud
. She reached a maximum altitude of just shy of 33,000 ft. (10,058 m) before reaching the top, rising at a rate of about 4,000 ft.
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Has anyone fallen through a cloud?

Lieutenant Colonel William Rankin served as a pilot with the US Marine Corps and was a World War II and Korean War veteran. But he is best remembered as being the only known person in the world to survive falling into and all the way through a cumulonimbus storm cloud to the ground.
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What would happen if you fell on a cloud?

So, what happens if you skydive through a cloud? Well, it could be that nothing happens, or the consequences could be catastrophic. As you probably recall from middle school science, in essence, clouds are condensed water vapor, much like fog. Analogously to fog, within a cloud, visibility is significantly reduced.
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Can you touch a cloud?

Clouds are made of millions of these tiny liquid water droplets. The droplets scatter the colors of the sunlight equally, which makes clouds appear white. Even though they can look like cushy puffballs, a cloud can't support your weight or hold anything up but itself.
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Can we touch rainbow?

In short, you can touch someone else's rainbow, but not your own. A rainbow is light reflecting and refracting off water particles in the air, such as rain or mist. The water particles and refracted light that form the rainbow you see can be miles away and are too distant to touch.
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How do clouds taste?

The dirt and particles in the air mix with the droplets to form a cloud. So, to answer what clouds taste like, we can assume correctly that they taste like water.
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How does it feel inside a cloud?

Clouds are composed of vaporized water, and they feel like mist. If you put your hands through one, you probably won't feel anything because the water present in it is in gaseous form.
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Why do clouds turn GREY?

When clouds are thin, they let a large portion of the light through and appear white. But like any objects that transmit light, the thicker they are, the less light makes it through. As their thickness increases, the bottoms of clouds look darker but still scatter all colors. We perceive this as gray.
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Can a cloud burst?

cloudburst, a sudden, very heavy rainfall, usually local in nature and of brief duration. Most so-called cloudbursts occur in connection with thunderstorms. In these storms there are violent uprushes of air, which at times prevent the condensing raindrops from falling to the ground.
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Does it hurt to fall through a cloud?

Skydiving through rain can be painful because you're falling at terminal velocity, so the rain is driven into your face at up to 200km/h. In a thundercloud, your chances of being hit by lightning are higher than on the ground because your wet body presents a more conductive path than the air around you.
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How deep is a cloud?

High-level. High clouds form at altitudes of 3,000 to 7,600 m (10,000 to 25,000 ft) in the polar regions, 5,000 to 12,200 m (16,500 to 40,000 ft) in the temperate regions, and 6,100 to 18,300 m (20,000 to 60,000 ft) in the tropics. All cirriform clouds are classified as high, thus constitute a single genus cirrus (Ci).
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Can you freeze a cloud?

Yes, there are high-altitude clouds made of ice crystals, for example cirrus clouds. You do not need to fulfill any condition of having a lower density than surrounding air, much like regular clouds (composed of water droplets) do not require the density of water to be lower than that of air.
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Can frozen clouds exist?

Yes, frozen clouds can exist. But only at unimaginable pressure. The pressure should be much more than at the bottom of the Earth's oceans, definitely not survivable by humans or spacecraft.
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Can you walk on clouds?

Clouds are just water vapour, they would put up very little resistance at all if you were to step onto one. So, outside of magic or technology, no, no way on Earth.
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Why are clouds pink?

Excess dust and aerosols suspended in the atmosphere diffuse and scatter light and only the longer wavelength light remains, making the clouds appear pink color or a pinkish-red sky at night.
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Why is the sunset red?

Blue is scattered more than other colours because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. However, at sunset, light has further to travel through the atmosphere. The shorter wavelength blue light is scattered further, as the sunlight passes over a greater distance, and we see the longer wavelength yellow and red light.
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Why do clouds not fall?

Clouds are composed primarily of small water droplets and, if it's cold enough, ice crystals. The vast majority of clouds you see contain droplets and/or crystals that are too small to have any appreciable fall velocity. So the particles continue to float with the surrounding air.
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Why are clouds dark?

As clouds build vertically and get thicker, such as a cumulonimbus cloud, less light can pass through the cloud. This will give it a darker appearance. This is also the reason why the bottom of clouds sometimes appear darker than the top.
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Are clouds cold or hot?

Clouds consist of microscopic droplets of liquid water (warm clouds), tiny crystals of ice (cold clouds), or both (mixed phase clouds).
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Can a cloud touch the ground?

Some clouds are high up in the sky. Low clouds form closer to Earth's surface. In fact, low clouds can even touch the ground. These clouds are called fog.
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Can you catch a cloud in a jar?

Place a 3-5 pieces of ice on top of the lid of the jar. Watch the top of the jar carefully and you will see a cloud begin to form. After observing the cloud in the jar, remove the lid and watch the cloud escape out of the jar.
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What does space taste like?

In 2009, astronomers were able to identify a chemical called ethyl formate in a big dust cloud at the center of the Milky Way. Ethyl formate happens to be responsible for the flavor of raspberries (it also smells like rum). Space tastes like raspberries!
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How do they weigh a cloud?

A typical cloud has a volume of around 1km3 and a density of around 1.003kg per m3 – about 0.4 per cent lower than that of the surrounding air, which is why they float. So cranking through the maths, that means that a typical cloud weighs around a million tonnes.
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