{"id":7884,"date":"2010-02-05T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/windswept-clouds-over-boulder-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:00:55","slug":"windswept-clouds-over-boulder-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/windswept-clouds-over-boulder-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Windswept clouds over Boulder | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love clouds, and Boulder is a never-ending and always-changing nebular cloudscape of them. <\/p><p>Last Saturday I saw this out my home office window:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/badastronomy\/4317187588\/in\/set-72157607165535706\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/44482_4317187588_a2fd0cbdf7.jpg\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>It was gorgeous! It&rsquo;s a lenticular (lens-shaped) orographic cloud; a cloud caused by moisture-laden air rising up and cooling as it passes over mountains. We see them here all the time just east of the Rockies, and when they get all lenticular it&rsquo;s a very cool bonus.<\/p><p>Orographic clouds aren&rsquo;t limited to the Earth you know; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/12\/22\/the-blue-clouds-of-the-red-planet\/\">other planets have atmospheres with some moisture and tall mountains to overcome as well<\/a>.<\/p><p>Some people think that science takes away the romance of nature. <em>Those people are wrong<\/em>. When I lie out in the Sun and muse about the pretty clouds over my home town, I can know that what I&rsquo;m seeing happens on other planets spinning around the Sun, and I&rsquo;ll just bet it&rsquo;s happening somewhere on a planet orbiting some other distant sun, lost among the billions in our galaxy.<\/p><p>What could possibly be more romantic than that?<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/r_oo5bL_yZACx6aElWXrcHK_k-k\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/44482_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/r_oo5bL_yZACx6aElWXrcHK_k-k\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/44482_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2f53d_3ZevVBXktsA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2f53d_-ndW7TEF_d8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love clouds, and Boulder is a never-ending and always-changing nebular cloudscape of them. Last Saturday I saw this out my home office window:It was gorgeous! It&rsquo;s a lenticular (lens-shaped) orographic cloud; a cloud caused by moisture-laden air rising up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/windswept-clouds-over-boulder-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}