if water can float in air (in clouds) and I can float in water, why can't I float in air?
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Clouds form when moist air blows upwards. Droplets and humans in the air both fall at terminal velocity. Tiny droplets have large surface area to volume ratios, so their terminal velocity is less than the upward windspeed; humans do not.
Clouds form when moist air blows upwards. Droplets and humans in the air both fall at terminal velocity. Tiny droplets have large surface area to volume ratios, so their terminal velocity is less than the upward windspeed; humans do not.
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James Grugett answered
Maybe you could float in air, if vaporized
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Undox answered
Water has different states. Liquid and vapour. It's density as a liquid is much higher than it's density as water vapour. Incidentally, when it transitions from vapour to liquid again, you get rain.
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Scott Owens answered
You should see a doctor for inability to float in air
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Tetraspace bought M$10a month ago
This is important for atmospheric physics, because large droplets that don't stay in the air are what rain is.
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James Grugett answereda month ago
Maybe you could float in air, if vaporized
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Undox answereda month ago
Water has different states. Liquid and vapour. It's density as a liquid is much higher than it's density as water vapour. Incidentally, when it transitions from vapour to liquid again, you get rain.
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Undox bought M$10a month ago
Tried my best to give an answer without Googling. ^^
Tetraspace answereda month ago
Clouds form when moist air blows upwards. Droplets and humans in the air both fall at terminal velocity. Tiny droplets have large surface area to volume ratios, so their terminal velocity is less than the upward windspeed; humans do not.
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Tetraspace bought M$10a month ago
This is important for atmospheric physics, because large droplets that don't stay in the air are what rain is.
Martin Randall bought M$5a month ago
This explains why water droplets have to get to a certain size before they fall.
Scott Owens answereda month ago
You should see a doctor for inability to float in air
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Scott Owens bought M$5a month ago
Perhaps you have medical condition that causes you not to float on air
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