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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a CUMULONIMBOCUNIMBULONIMBUS CLOUD. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete: Cold slippery air from title text not mentioned yet! Translating the cloud names from Latin would give more information and possibly intended entertainment. Maybe someone who can do better than translate.google.com could do it? Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
This comic follows the naming of clouds. As with other lists (like in [[2022: Sports Champions]]), it starts off as normal but then gets more unusual until it is unrealistic. | This comic follows the naming of clouds. As with other lists (like in [[2022: Sports Champions]]), it starts off as normal but then gets more unusual until it is unrealistic. | ||
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: The second panel shows a {{w|cumulonimbus cloud}}, from the Latin for "heaping raincloud", with the upper part about the same size as the lower part. Though somewhat like the cumulus cloud, it is more prone to causing rain and lightning. Cumulonimbus clouds, like cumulus clouds, grow vertically because of their moist warm air, but they have enough energy to reach the top of the {{w|troposphere}}, giving them the distinctive anvil shape shown in the comic and their tendency to produce nasty weather. | : The second panel shows a {{w|cumulonimbus cloud}}, from the Latin for "heaping raincloud", with the upper part about the same size as the lower part. Though somewhat like the cumulus cloud, it is more prone to causing rain and lightning. Cumulonimbus clouds, like cumulus clouds, grow vertically because of their moist warm air, but they have enough energy to reach the top of the {{w|troposphere}}, giving them the distinctive anvil shape shown in the comic and their tendency to produce nasty weather. | ||
;Cumulo<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>nimbus | ;Cumulo<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>nimbus | ||
− | : The third panel shows an even bigger cloud and names it cumulonimbulonimbus (Latin for "heaping rainy raincloud"). Here the scientific | + | : The third panel shows an even bigger cloud and names it cumulonimbulonimbus (Latin for "heaping rainy raincloud"). Here the scientific fact ends and the humor begins. The cloud has the upper part about twice as large as the lower part. The humor here comes from building up an even bigger name by adding another "nimbus" element for the cloud as its size increases, suggesting that its growth as compared to the second cloud shown has made it even more "rainy". |
;Cumulo<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>cumulo<wbr>nimbus | ;Cumulo<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>cumulo<wbr>nimbus | ||
− | : The fourth panel shows an absurdly large cloud with three major layers and gives it the name cumulonimbulonimbulocumulonimbus (Latin for "heaping rainy rainy heaping raincloud"). This is a combination of the third and second cloud names in this comic, and indeed the fourth cloud looks a lot like the second one emerging out of the top of the third. This cloud may look like a [[220: Philosophy|super soaker]], ready to spray water on everyone | + | : The fourth panel shows an absurdly large cloud with three major layers and gives it the name cumulonimbulonimbulocumulonimbus (Latin for "heaping rainy rainy heaping raincloud"). This is a combination of the third and second cloud names in this comic, and indeed the fourth cloud looks a lot like the second one emerging out of the top of the third. This cloud may look like a [[220: Philosophy|super soaker]], ready to spray water on everyone. |
;Alto<wbr>cumu<wbr>lenticulo<wbr>strato<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>cirrus<wbr>lenticulo<wbr>mamma<wbr>noctilucent | ;Alto<wbr>cumu<wbr>lenticulo<wbr>strato<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>cirrus<wbr>lenticulo<wbr>mamma<wbr>noctilucent | ||
− | : The title text takes this comic to its logical extreme by naming a new cloud that has the longest name of them all and is also supposedly the rarest | + | : The title text takes this comic to its logical extreme by naming a new cloud that has the longest name of them all and is also supposedly the rarest. It mentions a common joke in weather communities, making fun of the common [https://youtu.be/WMtAaETOVSY?t=448 trope] that thunderstorms form when "warm moist air" meets "cold dry air," an extreme oversimplification. A complicated cloud needs complicated processes, so Randall adds in "cold slippery air," then {{w|Curse|cursed air}} and {{w|nanobots}}, which makes the cloud impossible since neither of those exist{{Citation needed}}. |
− | :The name of this cloud is a {{w| | + | :The name of this cloud is a {{w|Compound_(linguistics)|compound}} of the following cloud names: |
:{{w|altocumulus}}: "heap up high"; these clouds are mid-altitude white patches. | :{{w|altocumulus}}: "heap up high"; these clouds are mid-altitude white patches. | ||
:{{w|lenticular cloud}}, often shaped like a flying saucer. | :{{w|lenticular cloud}}, often shaped like a flying saucer. | ||
:{{w|Stratus cloud|stratus}}: a layered cloud, effectively above-ground fog. | :{{w|Stratus cloud|stratus}}: a layered cloud, effectively above-ground fog. | ||
:{{w|Nimbostratus cloud|nimbus}}: a grey cloud producing continuous rain. | :{{w|Nimbostratus cloud|nimbus}}: a grey cloud producing continuous rain. | ||
− | :{{w|Cirrus cloud|cirrus}}: a cloud that looks like thin, wispy strands | + | :{{w|Cirrus cloud|cirrus|}}: a cloud that looks like thin, wispy strands. |
− | + | :{{w|mammatus}}: a breast-like cloud (some thunderstorm clouds form breast-like extrusions, which signify sinking air) | |
− | :{{w|mammatus}}: a breast-like cloud | ||
:{{w|noctilucent}}: a cloud-like structure formed from ice crystals, often formed after volcano eruptions and other cataclysmic events and illuminated by a just-set sun. | :{{w|noctilucent}}: a cloud-like structure formed from ice crystals, often formed after volcano eruptions and other cataclysmic events and illuminated by a just-set sun. | ||
− | The {{w|International Cloud Atlas}} defines the cloud types that are recognized by the WMO, the {{w|World Meteorological Organization}}. It was first published in 1896. Similarly, {{w|IUPAC}} publishes a manual that allows chemists to name chemical compounds in a consistent manner. The Altocumulenticulostratonimbulocirruslenticulomammanoctilucent may thus be a pun on IUPAC, which (theoretically) offers a unique name for each possible strand of DNA and other complex molecules | + | The {{w|International Cloud Atlas}} defines the cloud types that are recognized by the WMO, the {{w|World Meteorological Organization}}. It was first published in 1896. Similarly, {{w|IUPAC}} publishes a manual that allows chemists to name chemical compounds in a consistent manner. The Altocumulenticulostratonimbulocirruslenticulomammanoctilucent may thus be a pun on IUPAC, which (theoretically) offers a unique name for each possible strand of DNA and other complex molecules. Therefore, Randall might have seen a unique cloud that has never been observed before, but yet, thanks to IUPAC-like cloud naming rules, he came up with a "valid" name for his observation. |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Robots]] <!-- Nanobots in title text --> | [[Category:Robots]] <!-- Nanobots in title text --> | ||
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