Monday 27 April 2015

Amazing Clouds That Look Like Other Things

Clouds are an interesting visual phenomena and can form some very weird shapes.


Regardless of the shape and the looks of the cloud, they’re all made of the same thing – condensed water or ice. When the sun heats the ground, warm air starts to evaporate and rise towards the sky. Once these water vapor particles cluster together, a cloud is formed. Otherwise the cloud simply evaporates into the thin air.


Our tendency to see faces or images in random objects is called pareidolia. Renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan theorized that this hard-wired tendency evolved as a way to quickly identify faces at a split-second (even in poor visibility), allowing us to identify them and judge their emotional state in the blink of an eye.


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Amazing Clouds That Look Like Other Things

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