RQ #2 - Falling Clouds - T1B36

"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" Hmmm, Chicken little is not completely crazy. He knows half of what he's talking about. Today is Judy's Randomness Questionnaire Column #2: Do Clouds fall from the sky?

Well, here's another way of phrasing this question: If water is heavier than air, how do clouds stay up in the sky? They don't. Who ever said that clouds don't fall. They are constantly dropping. They are downright sluggards. Cloud drops drop at around 0.3 centimeters per second. And since they are so tiny, they're only 0.01 centimeters in diameter, usually not noticable to the naked eye.

So Chicken little isn't so wacko after all. No need to run, duck, or panic. It's just the sky falling all the time. Thank god they don't have the same effect and velocity of a water balloon. Although that would be a lot of fun! You don't say. LOL