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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What would clouds feel like?

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. As a result of this, clouds can move with the weather.
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Can anyone touch the clouds?

Unfortunately, it does not feel like cotton balls or cotton candy, but most people have technically touched a cloud before. If you wanted to touch an airborne cloud, the best way to do this is either skydiving or in a hot air balloon, though I would not want to be stuck in a cloud while in a hot air balloon.
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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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Can u sit on 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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I caught a cloud on my paraglider ... and took it home!



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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Are clouds soft or hard?

They look as though you could make them your soft, fluffy bed in the sky, but in reality you would fall right through them and get whacked with little water droplets if you tried (trust me, I have). Clouds are fragile, fleeting and powerful.
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What is inside a cloud?

Clouds are made up of tiny water droplets or ice crystals, usually a mixture of both. The water and ice scatter all light, making clouds appear white. If the clouds get thick enough or high enough all the light above does not make it through, hence the gray or dark look.
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How heavy is a cloud?

Answer: Thus, a 'typical' fair weather cumulus cloud "weighs" about 1 billion 400 million pounds, or about 800 million pounds less than dry air of cqual volume.
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Can you drown in a cloud?

In 2007, Wisnierska-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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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 we touch stars?

Surprisingly, yes, for some of them. Small, old stars can be at room temperature ex: WISE 1828+2650, so you could touch the surface without getting burned. Any star you can see in the sky with the naked eye, however, would be hot enough to destroy your body instantaneously if you came anywhere near them.
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Can you put a cloud in a jar?

Clouds are created through condensation. That's when water vapor turns back into a liquid. By putting the hot air into the jar, we're creating a lot of hot humid air in the container. By cooling down the lid, we're providing a very cool surface at the top of the jar.
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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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What does a cloud smell like?

Cloud by Ariana Grande is a Floral Fruity Gourmand fragrance for women. Cloud was launched in 2018. The nose behind this fragrance is Clement Gavarry. Top notes are Lavender, Pear and Bergamot; middle notes are Whipped cream, Praline, Coconut and Vanilla orchid; base notes are Musk and Woody Notes.
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Are clouds alive?

Clouds are alive with tiny bacteria that grab up water vapor in the atmosphere to make cloud droplets, especially at warmer temperatures, a new study shows. The water droplets and ice crystals that make up clouds don't usually form spontaneously in the atmosphere — they need a solid or liquid surface to collect on.
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What happens if you go through 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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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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Is cloud a liquid?

While it's true that clouds contain water, they actually aren't made of water vapor. If they were, you wouldn't be able to see them. The water that makes up clouds is in liquid or ice form. The air around us is partially made up of invisible water vapor.
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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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Can you fly through a rainbow?

Rainbows can be full circles, too, but people typically only seen them as arcs. Because they are formed by droplets above the ground, centred on a line from the sun to the viewer's eye, they are only visible from a distance. This means it is not possible to 'fly through' a rainbow.
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Does rainbow has an end?

Because rainbows are made in the sky, they don't touch the ground. So if you're on the ground, however far you walk, the end of the rainbow will always look as if it were on the edge of the horizon. But what people don't realise is that rainbows are actually complete circles, and obviously a circle has no end.
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How does a rainbow taste?

Synesthesia: Some People Really Can Taste The Rainbow : The Salt Some people with a rare neurological condition known as synesthesia can taste shapes or smell color. And when these people work in the food industry, it can radically redefine flavor profiles.
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