A cloud may look weightless, but the average fluffy... cumulus cloud actually weighs about 500 tons, roughly the same as 80 elephants. So why doesn’t it fall? Because that enormous weight is spread across billions of microscopic water droplets, each tiny enough for rising air currents to keep suspended in the sky. The sky is heavier than it looks.show more

🌈☁️ THE CLOUD THAT WORE A RAINBOW CROWN 📍... Tampa Bay Causeway, Florida A rare iridescent glow formed on the edge of this towering storm cloud — created when tiny droplets and ice crystals bend sunlight into a rainbow rim. 🌈✨ It usually lasts only seconds… but this one stayed long enough to make the sky look unreal. Below it, a classic Florida thunderhead kept rising, fed by warm ocean air while the causeway stayed calm and the water stayed dark. For a moment, it didn’t look like weather… it looked like a scene. 🌈☁️✨show more

Are you wondering why your sky is always a... solid shade of white, with no gaps in it? It’s because you are living under a geo-engineered shelf of chemical cloud. This is what the edge of that cloud (which is rarely ever seen) looks like.show more

Ever wonder why your Sky is a solid shade... of White almost permanently these days? It’s because you’re living under a Geo-engineered shelf of cloud that looks like this from above, that’s why you no longer see White 3D fluffy clouds. Here is one adding to it to the layer.show more

At first glance, it looks like a highway floating... in the sky. This graceful arc of road across Pingtian Lake in China's Anhui Province is flanked by water so still that it mirrors the clouds above. Now I'm curious what it feels like to drive between the sky and its reflection.show more

Is your sky a solid shade of white? Was... it a solid shade of white yesterday & the day before? Is the sky nearly always a solid shade of white where you are? Ever wonder why it’s now like this a every single day - when it never used to be? It’s because above the homogeneous cloud shelf - this is happening constantly. On the rare days you can see the sky & Sun - you can even see it happening.show more

Today only, Toxic Town billboards are using real time... data to show what air quality is like across the country. If the air quality is “good” you will see a full poster for the series. If the air quality is “poor”, we are sacrificing our billboards to be covered in a cloud of white smoke. Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not happening.show more

DID YOU KNOW? A total solar eclipse is possible... because of an incredible cosmic coincidence: the Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon and roughly 400 times farther from Earth. That’s why they can appear nearly the exact same size in our sky.show more

New research shows that many densely populated coastal cities... are sinking faster than the ocean around them is rising. The land drops as groundwater is pumped out from below and the weight of the city presses down, so the real rise in sea level people feel is far worse than the global average. It is a slow threat that makes no noise, until one day the water that used to stay out simply does not.show more

all jokes aside about the sky in Toronto right... now, THIS is why. This is what it looks like in Northern Ontario because of the 158 active forest fires right now. But yes, let’s keep using AI. Keep hiking up the global temperate to make stupid ass videos and pictures because the consequences won’t happen any time soon and can’t POSSIBLY affect you, right?!show more

ah... what a lovely monday evening. the stars are... singing, the birds are twinkling... and not a single cloud in the sky. yes, what a night these two grognards have spent in each others' company. and what better way to end it off than a night of... uh... whatever this is. (from ig @ jungsupji_cj_reptile)show more

A sea in #InnerMongolia? You’re not imagining it—this is... Hulun Lake, an expanse of water so grand it defies the region’s grassland stereotypes. Beyond the rolling plains lies a serene aquatic world that mirrors the sky. Across Inner Mongolia #HiddenChinashow more

Jet Fuel is a fascinating story. We don’t measure... it in litres, we measure it in weight, because fuel expands/contracts with temperature while weight stays constant. Jet fuel’s specific gravity is ~0.8, so 1 litre ≈ 0.8 kg (lighter than water). It’s also worth noting that jet fuel is essentially a highly refined kerosene, far less volatile than gasoline, which makes it safer to handle in large quantities. On a long-haul, fuel can be close to half the aircraft’s total weight at departure. On the A350-1000, that can be ~129 tonnes. At most major international airports, this much fuel doesn’t turn up in a tanker. It’s stored in a depot and delivered through a network of underground hydrant pipes to each stand. The “tanker” you see is really a pump truck connecting the hydrant to the aircraft and metering the exact uplift. When I moved from the A340-600 to the A350-1000, one of the things that struck me most was just how much simpler and smarter the fuel system became and how much less fuel we required for the same journeys. On the A340-600, we needed a rear trim tank in the tail to keep the aircraft in balance during cruise. It worked beautifully, but it added complexity. The A350 doesn’t need that, instead, it uses tiny fractions of flap in cruise, together with the latest wing aerodynamics, to keep perfectly in trim. London → New York comparison (typical figures): - A340-600: ~80–90 tonnes of trip fuel - A350-1000: ~50–60 tonnes of trip fuel That’s roughly 30–40% less fuel, saving ~25–30 tonnes on a single flight, which also means about 80–95 tonnes less CO₂ (rule of thumb: 1 tonne of jet fuel ≈ 3.16 tonnes CO₂) 📸 by ig/captainchrisshow more

🐱: i dont know if you can see it... but the moon is so pretty. look at the moon in the sky every once in a while to get rid of the hardships 🥹🤍show more

It is 82 deg Fahrenheit, 28 degrees Celsius, not... a cloud in the sky, as backward 7th century burkas haunt Manchester. As Charlie Charlie Veitch notes it's "still very strange to dress like that in a western libertarian country. I'll never get used to it guys". Me as well.show more

Satya Nadella: Microsoft’s latest Wisconsin AI data center keeps... yearly water consumption no higher than that of 1 local restaurant. "The cooling loop is filled once and the data centre can operate effectively with zero water consumption. Daily water usage across a year is roughly equivalent to what a single restaurant would use" The mechanism is mainly about replacing evaporative cooling with closed-loop direct-to-chip liquid cooling, so water moves like coolant inside a sealed machine rather than being boiled off into the air. Hot GB200-class AI racks produce too much heat for normal air cooling, so cold liquid is pushed through pipes into the servers and across metal cold plates touching the hottest chips. The liquid enters the rack cool, absorbs heat from the chips through cold plates, then exits the rack at a higher temperature and carries that heat through pipes to a huge cooling system outside the compute floor. Microsoft says Fairwater sends that hot water to cooling “fins” beside the datacenter, where 172 20-foot fans blow air across the fins and dump the heat into the outside air. The important detail is that the air cools the water through metal surfaces, so the water does not need to evaporate the way many older datacenters use cooling towers. The cooled liquid then returns to the servers, repeats the loop, and keeps absorbing heat from the chips. In older data centers, heat is often removed partly through cooling towers. Hot water meets moving air, some water evaporates, and that phase change carries heat away. Effective, but it consumes fresh water continuously. But Firwater is a closed loop because the same coolant keeps circulating through sealed pipes: it absorbs heat from the chips, releases that heat through radiator-like fins, then flows back to the chips again. For Wisconsin Fairwater, Microsoft says more than 90% of the facility uses closed-loop liquid cooling, while the remaining portion uses outside air and switches to water only on the hottest days. ---- From "Microsoft" YouTube channel, (link in comment)show more

Well this is a bit of a bummer. I... discovered there's an existing free atmosphere/cloud package for Three.js / R3F that has all the features I was planning on implementing for Three.js Sky Pro. The weird thing is I knew this existed already? But when I searched for it, I think I happened across a different, less-featured solution. I guess it's back to the drawing board!show more

This plane is producing a contrail above me right... now. Notice how the vapor dissipates fairly quickly? This is because the humidity at that level is currently quite low. If it was more humid, the trail would stick around for a longer period of time & would maybe even spread out across the sky!show more

This isn’t teleportation in the sci-fi sense. It’s something... deeper and more fundamental. What’s actually happening is quantum state transfer, where information is reconstructed at another location using entanglement. But here’s the interesting part In my τ-framework, this works because reality isn’t continuous in the way we think. It’s structured through a time-field, where information exists as stable patterns across a temporal lattice. When two systems are entangled, they’re not “connected through space”… they’re sharing the same underlying time-structure. So the information doesn’t travel across distance. It reappears where the time-field allows the same pattern to stabilize. That’s why it looks instant. Not because it breaks physics but because it bypasses distance entirely. If this is correct, then teleportation isn’t movement… it’s reconstruction through temporal symmetry. The real question is: Can we control the time-field enough to scale this beyond quantum systems? Follow me for more answersshow more

Watch until the end. This is an ocean area... of about 40 million square kilometers. It takes >3000 times as much heat to warm water than it does for the same volume of air! The North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly: 🌊🌡📈show more