Gibson had never become reconciled to the loss of the sleek, steamlined spaceships which had been the dream of the early twentieth century. The glittering dumb-bell hanging against the stars was not his idea of a space-liner; though the world had accepted it, he had not. Of course, he ...
From the ground, some supercells – known as low precipitation supercells – look like slowly rotating spaceships. When viewed from space, thunderstorms look like explosions, clearly showing the strong updrafts powering the vertical growth of such cumulonimbus clouds. ESA/NASA...