Clouds Can Communicate, Scientists Say(WTF is going on :o)

[prodil89]

Little, fluffy and talkative? Clouds can communicate, a new paper suggests but what are they talking about?

A new study has found that clouds "communicate" with each other, much like chirping crickets or flashing fireflies on a summer night. The surprising findings, published online in the journal Nature, may have significant implications for our understanding of the Earth's climate.

So the next time you find yourself laying on your back picking out shapes among the clouds, mull on this one: Are they talking among themselves about you?

"Cloud fields organize in such a way that their components 'communicate' with one another and produce regular, periodic rainfall events," explained Graham Feingold, a research scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) and the paper's lead author.

In other words, Feingold found clear evidence of self-organization in the regular patterns of rainfall and repeating growth of those floating puffs of cotton.

How does such synchronization come about? Falling rain cools the air as it descends. This creates downward air currents. These downdrafts hit the surface of the planet, flow outward, and collide with each other, forming updrafts. The air flowing up creates new clouds in previously open sky as older clouds dissipate. Then the new clouds rain, and the oscillating pattern repeats itself.

"In a sense what's going on is that the clouds are communicating with each other by driving down to the ground. If you have a number of clouds doing exactly that, air is forced to go sideways from one cloud and meets the air from another," Feingold told FoxNews.com.

Voila! cloud speech!

Earlier theories about cloud structure explained that temperature change was at the heart of cloud generation, that warming and cooling shifts were the key forces. Precipitation as a driving factor is something of a radical shift.

But talking clouds? That's even more radical.

Feingold is nevertheless quite serious, citing a lengthy history of research into cloud communication.

"If you go back far enough, the basic physics behind this phenomenon was recorded in the early 1900s by a French scientist," he explained.

He was looking at the sun though a telescope and noticed convection patterns. Lord Rayleigh later put it into a theoretical framework, explaining the hexagonal patterns observed in the lab, Feingold told FoxNews.com.

"1933 is the earliest report of patterns in the clouds," by a scientist known as Graham, he said. But Feingold thinks the idea of cloud communication might date back far further.

Source....

[url]http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/13/clouds-communicate-scientists-say/[/url]

Deci va jur de aici incolo o sa vedem stiri tot mai socante pe zi ce trece :0

LE:WoW sa reparat forumul???? Nu mai tre sa dau edit??Cool

@Birkoff naaah sorry da am vrut sa postez pentru ca mi se pare socant cum dreq sa comunice norii ?

Edited August 15, 2010 by prodil89

[Birkoff]

a trebuit sa citesc 80% din topic ca sa imi dau seama ca de fapt se vorbeste despre norii de pe cer nu sistemul cloud computing (tot incercam sa imi dau seama ce legatura au norii cu sistemul cloud ) (intrasem sa citesc ca am crezut ca sa descoperit o mare galma in sistemul cloud computing)

[LLegoLLaS]

la fel cand am vazut cloud m-am gandit la cloud computing.Mi-am dat seama la fraza ''So the next time you find yourself laying on your back picking out shapes among the clouds, mull on this one: Are they talking among themselves about you?''

[Fitty]

Schizophrenia?

[Ellimist]

Parkinson.

Este o boal? degenerativ? ce survine în urma distrugerii lente ?i progresive a neuronilor. Întrucât zona afectat? joac? un rol important în controlul mi?c?rilor, pacien?ii prezint? gesturi rigide, sacadate ?i incontrolabile, tremor ?i instabilitate postural?.

La unii se intampla sa afecteze regiunea frontala a creierului, ajungand si la nervul optic, astfel aparand fel si fel de halucinatii, nori vorbitori, copaci care se misca si altele:))

[LLegoLLaS]

o sa spuna ca putem stoca date in nori...nu ca nu ne-ar placea dar...totusi..cum sa vorbeasca APA

[skipper]

Si cand fulgera si tuna,ce fac?Se bat intre ei?

[AlStar]

Si cand fulgera si tuna,ce fac?Se bat intre ei?

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[HackKing]

La unii se intampla sa afecteze regiunea frontala a creierului, ajungand si la nervul optic, astfel aparand fel si fel de halucinatii, nori vorbitori, copaci care se misca si altele:))

abia astept sa fac si eu parkinson

intre timp, ca sa mai stau la o vorba cu norii, folosesc lsd in continuare.