Clouds
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These
clouds
can grow so big, up to 50 miles wide and reach up to 65,000 feet into the atmosphere.
And then there are the colors in the
clouds
of hail forming, the greens and the turquoise blues.
What really excites me about these storms is their movement, the way they swirl and spin and undulate, with their lava lamp-like mammatus
clouds.
You can have methane clouds, OK, and above those clouds, you have this hundreds of kilometers of haze, which prevent any sunlight from getting to the surface.
If you think about it, the English language has written into it negative associations towards the
clouds.
They don't notice the beauty, but they don't even notice the
clouds
unless they get in the way of the sun.
And so people think of
clouds
as things that get in the way.
But most people, when you stop to ask them, will admit to harboring a strange sort of fondness for
clouds.
Who here can't remember thinking, well, looking and finding shapes in the
clouds
when they were kids?
Aristophanes, the ancient Greek playwright, he described the
clouds
as the patron godesses of idle fellows two and a half thousand years ago, and you can see what he means.
I think we should be a bit more willing, perhaps, to look at the beautiful sight of the sunlight bursting out from behind the
clouds
and go, "Wait a minute, that's two cats dancing the salsa!" (Laughter) (Applause) Or seeing the big, white, puffy one up there over the shopping center looks like the Abominable Snowman going to rob a bank.
They're like nature's version of those inkblot images, you know, that shrinks used to show their patients in the '60s, and I think if you consider the shapes you see in the clouds, you'll save money on psychoanalysis bills.
But one thing I do know is this: The bad press that
clouds
get is totally unfair.
I think, if you live with your head in the
clouds
every now and then, it helps you keep your feet on the ground.
And I want to show you why, with the help of some of my favorite types of
clouds.
These
clouds
are bombing along, but from all the way down here, they appear to be moving gracefully, slowly, like most
clouds.
And so to tune into the
clouds
is to slow down, to calm down.
Those are common
clouds.
These
clouds
form in the region of mountains.
When the wind passes, rises to pass over the mountain, it can take on a wave-like path in the lee of the peak, with these
clouds
hovering at the crest of these invisible standing waves of air, these flying saucer-like forms, and some of the early black-and-white UFO photos are in fact lenticularis
clouds.
Those are rarer
clouds
than the cirrus, but they're not that rare.
And these clouds, these rarer clouds, remind us that the exotic can be found in the everyday.
These
clouds
spread out at the top in this enormous anvil fashion stretching 10 miles up into the atmosphere.
All those cloud shapes at the beginning, those were cumulus
clouds.
So keep looking up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and always remember to live life with your head in the
clouds.
I looked at the clouds, and I did what is hardest of all for me to do usually, which is nothing at all.
And then climbed back up again, looked down at those
clouds
again, climbed back into the capsule again.
And so I managed to fly the balloon down through the clouds, and about 50 feet, before I hit the sea, threw myself over.
All right, how many Swedish decisionmakers and politicians and business leaders use, every day, U.S.-based services, like, you know, run Windows or OSX, or use Facebook or LinkedIn, or store their data in
clouds
like iCloud or Skydrive or DropBox, or maybe use online services like Amazon web services or sales support?
The sky is blue without
clouds.
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