Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk

olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  www.usgs.gov/…/how-much-does-a-cloud-weigh

  Doing the math: 1,000,000,000 x 0.5 = 500,000,000 grams of water droplets in our cloud. That is about 500,000 kilograms or 1.1 million pounds (about 551 tons). But, that “heavy” cloud is floating over your head because the air below it is even heavier— the lesser density of the cloud allows it to float on the dryer and more-dense air.

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Depends on whether or not you count in air resistance. I was just making a shitpost

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    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Interesting way to admit you were wrong

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can find exceptions, but on average, heavier objects will fall very slightly faster than light ones, because they excert their own gravity field onto Earth and pull therefore it towards themselves.

    This requires a somewhat unintuitive definition of “falling”, in that both the object and Earth itself moves, but given that any object with mass excerts a gravitational field, there is not actually any other definition.

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    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle

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      • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Wut? This does not turn off gravitational pull for objects other than Earth.

        Or I’m misunderstanding what you’re trying to say, but yeah, no clue.

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• dudinax@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Try dropping your phone from a hot air balloon and see which one hits the ground first.

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  • MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A hot air balloon masses a lot but weighs nothing

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    • Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you want to be pedantic, it weighs less than nothing.

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      • RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If you want to be really pedantic, it weighs a lot, but the upward buoyant force from Archimedes’ principle counteracts it completely, and then some.

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Let’s argue “what in heavy” before we go there

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