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The Best Cloud Time-Lapse Video You'll See Today
These are clouds in Hawaii. They're better than your local clouds, as this video proves. Unless you live in Hawaii, I guess.
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Magnificent Cloud Formation Over New Zealand At Sunset
Science Buzz I want to go to there. This particular formation is an example of Undulatus asperatus—meaning “agitated waves”—which was proposed as a separate cloud classification in 2009 by… wait for it… the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. (I'm serious.)
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Gliding Above The Morning Glory Roll Cloud
Along the gusty shores of Northeastern Austrailia, pro hang glider John Durand performs this legendary feat.
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Dancing Cloud Phenomenon
Science Buzz This is some X-Files stuff, this is. Scientists are uncertain the exact cause, but the leading hypothesis is that ice-crystals in the Earth's atmosphere and electric discharges from thunderclouds create these strange jumping clouds.
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Image: Bizarre Russian Cloud
The extraordinary sight is a rare cloud formation known as a ‘lenticular cloud’ , or simply a cap cloud. There’s me thinking the aliens had landed. (via dailymail.co.uk)
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Time Elapsed Skywave
Science Buzz Even Nature has to practice for stadium events. Scientifically this is what happens to two masses of air move in two different directions, but that explanation is boring.
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Meteorologists Welcome Newest Cloud Type
Science Buzz Cumulus, nimbus, stratus, cirrus…asperatus? First “discovered” in 2009, scientists have finally named this dramatic and rare cloud occurence as Undulatus Asperatus.
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Image: View Of The Last American Space Shuttle Launch From An Airplane
Here's a cool picture of the Atlantis space shuttle taken from a passing airplane. (via twitpic.com)
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50 Incredible Views Of Places Above The Clouds
Culture Buzz 50 pictures from places above the clouds. As far as I know, none of these pictures are photoshopped.
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12 Amazing Surreal Photo Manipulations
Culture Buzz It's a little bit Salvador Dali and little bit Captain Planet.
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Video: The Bear, The Cloud, And God
An animated cartoon that teaches you valuable lessons about a bear, a cloud, and god.
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Video: Writing ‘Cloud’ in the Clouds
The ultimate in meta: a skywriter writes “clouds” using…clouds.
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Link: Morning Glory Clouds Over Australia
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090824.html
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What causes these long, strange clouds? No one is sure. A rare type of cloud known as a Morning Glory cloud can stretch 1,000 kilometers long and occur at altitudes up to two kilo
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Image: Happy Clouds
A British artist released 2,057 foam “happy clouds” in London today. Said Stuart Semple: “I know at times like this it’s easy to make creativity a low priority, but I want to show on a very human level that an artistic idea might be able to do something important, even for a fleeting moment.” Are you listening, Kenneth Jindal?
