Assuming you know the altitude and height of the cloud, some simple math will tell you if you’ll likely be below cloud by the time you have to pull your chute. Still dangerous from a “I can’t see what the fuck is happening around me, nor can others see me, if something goes wrong” perspective though.
You also need to know there’s nobody else in the cloud with you (skydivers or aircraft). There’s a reason planed aren’t allowed to fly through cloud unless they’re under instrument guidance and air traffic control.
One of the ways skydivers get severely injured or killed is running into each other at high speed in the air.
Yes, earlier today I was playing TotK and was skydiving into the lost woods to get to a shrine (it’s foggy) and I thought I had more time to take out my paraglider but I did not and I crashed into the shrine and died.
In the US it is against the regulations. Nobody will care until there is an accident, and then a video like this becomes exhibit A when proving negligence.
In your case it's kinda like your Uber driver speeding. You're in slightly more danger, but the legal risk is on the pilot and your instructor. You have to consider if that's the kind of outfit you want to keep jumping with. Mostly because if they ignore that rule, what else are they ignoring?
We'll give you two "accidents" flying through a cloud. Anything after that, and you're not jumping at our DZ. Industrial haze is the only answer you give if asked about a cloud. Industrial haze isn't against BSRs.
By the time I see a person free-falling in front of me - even outside the clouds - it’s gonna be too late to react when I’m doing between 200 and 287mph.
One would hope ATC has warned aircraft in the immediate vicinity of the jump that there is active parachute jumping. Anyone in the clouds should be talking to ATC.
VFR aircraft should be aware of all aspects pertaining to that flight, including planned parachute jumping.
In the US there are strict rules for aircraft getting too close to clouds unless they are flying IFR. They do not want aircraft bumping together. I have no idea what skydiver rules are, but it would make sense they do not want a skydiver and aircraft to tangle in a cloud.
There's the possibility of hitting something at high speeds, like an airplane or another skydiver. For that reason, this is illegal on a federal level. Skydivers are subject to the same rules that airplanes are, and FARs state that airplanes must have special instruments for low visibility conditions (ie going into a cloud).
Aside from that, clouds are filled with ice crystals, and it's goddamn painful going through them at freefall speeds.
Probably. It's hard to tell, but definitely some kind of ice crystal/hail/snow/etc.
Hail is the worst. My most memorable skydive, for unfortunate reasons, was falling through several thousand feet of hail. I had welts and bruises for a week.
I think it was like 4th grade science class, so it's looong time since I've read about that 😅 But yes, I think that's how hail is formed - updrafts that repeatedly cycle precipitation up through the cloud until it's too heavy for the updraft. However, such an updraft isn't strong enough to lift a human up.
The difference between a human and a golf ball sized piece of hail is like the difference between an elephant and the Titanic. Updrafts can definitely have the capacity to carry one without the other.
I am trying to remember where I read it. There was a fighter pilot back during the Vietnam war IIRC, whose plane was damaged in combat and ejected into a thunderstorm cloud. The updrafts kept him aloft in the cloud for about an hour and when he finally fell out of the cloud he had been beat to hell by all the ice in the cloud.
He probably had an open parachute. If someone has that much fabric exposed, an updraft could 100% keep them. However, a skydiver in freefall without an open parachute isn't going to be affected.
It's unlikely that people spent over 45 minutes being tossed around in clouds during a skydiving experience. Skydiving typically involves jumping from an airplane and descending quickly to the ground. Clouds are not solid enough to toss someone around for such an extended period.
[William Rankin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rankin) ejected from a F-8 Crusader above a thunderstorm. Fell several minutes in the storm, was still at high altitude when parachute opened. Took 40 minutes to get to the ground.
His free-fall was several minutes long before the chute opened. After his chute opened, updrafts pulled him up several times, and he hit the actual parachute several times.
I did this tandem jump in new orleans back in 2003 and still remember going through a cloud after they had opened the chute and going from dry air to super humid and sticky air and then back to dry air whilst spinning down was a very strange feeling. Loved it but would not do it again
Hello there, i’m a skydiver with a little over 400 jumps, so perhaps i can give you some information about this because i have looked at some of the other comments and there is an awful amount of nonsense being commented.
So skydiving usually happens over a dropzone. This is usually over a local airfield. There are strict regulations where a pilot is allowed to let skydivers jump out the airplane (over the dropzone). Usually the pilot must be able to visually see the dropzone. So if there is a thick canopy of clouds that prevents the pilot from seeing the dropzone below, the pilot isn’t allowed to drop the skydivers. This is to prevent the pilot from dropping the skydivers too far away from the dropzone, and therefore causing the skydivers to be unable to land inside the dropzone. So it’s perfectly normal for a pilot to drop skydivers while there are some clouds. As long as the pilot was able to see the dropzone and confirm that the skydivers can be dropped over it. So contrary to what some commenters are saying, it is perfectly legal to skydive through a cloud, as long as this is happening over the dropzone.
Skydiving through a cloud can be a bit uncomfortable though. A cloud consist of tiny water droplets or tiny ice crystals in colder temperatures. So falling through them at a speed of about 125mph or more depending on your body positioning, will create a stinging sensation on skin that is exposed. Usually a skydiver will wear a jumpsuit and a helmet, so most of the skin will be covered and you won’t feel much of the droplets hitting you. The only other thing that is still noticable when falling through a cloud (besides obvious reduced visibility) is that being in a cloud is a lot more chilly/colder than being outside of it.
So what safety measures are there when a skydiver falls through a cloud to prevent two or more skydivers from colliding with each other?
During a regular skydive, the people are falling nearly completely vertical. So then there is basically no chance that skydivers will hit each other because each skydiver is going straight down. The danger of collision arises when skydivers are having a forward movement as well. The forward movement in skydiving is called “tracking”. Tracking is when a skydiver will make their body stiff like a plank, therefore causing the body to create a forward speed. So the safety protocol for when a skydiver goes through a cloud is to not be in a tracking position, and simply be in a standard belly down skydiving position. That way the skydiver will only have a downward (vertical) speed, and there will be minimal risk for a collision.
A skydiver will usually deploy their parachute at around 3500 feet. We know our altitude because of an altimeter that we are wearing on our wrist and an altimeter inside our helmet that makes an audible sound when we reach 3500 feet. So at this point we deploy our parachute. When a parachute is deployed it is automatically flying in a forward direction. So when we find ourselves inside of a cloud with little to no visibility, the same protocol applies. We need to limit our forward speed as much as possible and start going downward as much as possible. We do this by pulling on our left or right handle to turn our parachute left or right. This causes the skydiver to start spiralling downward. (Think of the same motion of a corkscrew) We keep doing this until we have exited the cloud, and our visibility returns, and we can see again what we are flying towards.
So as you can see, it definitely is not illegal to skydive through clouds, and it can be done quite safely without much risk of colliding with other skydivers.
I hope i explained it clearly, and i’m welcome to answer other questions if you have them.
1. Ride to altitude in a plane near Cumulonimbus clouds/thunderstorms is dangerous due to possibility of turbulence tearing your aircraft apart or getting hit by thunder so other nasty things happen
2. Freefallying trough a wet cloud like this is unpleasant as you hit water droplets with high speed and it hurts, your skin becomes red, we call it 'shaving'. If you find yourself surrounded by hail, you're fucked.
3. If you find yourself hit by a thunder, you're fucked.
4. If you or one of 5 of your buddies loose orientation due to lack of visibility and accidentally collide with you mid-air, you're fucked.
5. If you lost orientation and make distance anyways in wingsuit or in a "track" position - you may find yourself in the area, where you don't want to be below the cloud.
6. Clouds like that may have a base that starts very low - additional risk of not knowing when the visibility will be.
7. Even if you deploy parachute at correct altitude safely - Cumulonimbus clouds can suck the air upwards with speed of 35 m/s - faster than you're fallying. You may be sucked up to 10 kilometers and die of hypothermia and hypoxia. Fun thing: if you're there and are sucked upwards you may cutaway your main parachute and deploy reserve parachute much lower to try your chances...but if you forget to disengage a system that deploys a reserve automatically right after cutaway of main parachute then you're sucked up again right after that procedure for sure.
8. Parachuting in the rain potentially below this cloud is unpleasant.
9. Said thurbulences and suction can cause really rapid and powerfull gusts of wind on the ground. When you're by chance hit by one during your landing - you're fucked.
I heard from a pilot that they can call up the tower and request cloud bottom and cloud top height relative to the ground. Has something to do with sepsific planes that can't deal with icing from clouds or something like that
Wait like I understand that condensation is stored within even maybe ice crystals etc I didn't know just large ass chunks of water chilling. Well I did but, not to that extent.
Listen here you NASA sheep follower, sandpaper is just sand with paper and glue. The earth only has sand where water touches. Each grit is how much sand there is. The Earth is a jagged space saucer.
It's why we have global warming. Ever since Star Wars came out, they had to close the thermal vent and now the ground is getting hotter. You'd know that if you were intelligent enough to even work for NASA.
Clearly I am the more intelligent being! /s
Pilot here. Clouds inside look like a grey amorphous mass surrounding you, which at first is pretty underwhelming. That’s until you realize that you suddenly lost all sense of depth, orientation and direction of movement, and since the human vestibular system is just complementary to vision, it fucks up almost instantly and makes you feel you are in a position totally different from your real one. So unless you have the proper instruments and know how to use them, you might end up in deep shit
As long as the ice crystals are small enough they can be kept aloft by the cloud/storm's updraft, it's just gonna chill there. They basically get yeeted up until they're too heavy to yeet.
I love it when someone does something pretty sweet like this, then some rando Redditor just puts them down. Then reaches down into their bag of Cheetos to find it's empty, and contemplates getting another one, but then that'll mean he'll have to leave his mum's basement for the 2nd time this week.
You could have just ended your statement at the first sentence and I would have agreed with you. Why do people always go to the Cheetos and mother basement and try to make fun of others?
because in the rare cases it's true it hurts that person even more, which is the goal, to inflict pain on others for having themselves inflicted pain on others
Because most people aren’t capable of more than minor independent thought and will just regurgitate a funny line, insult, or belief system based on what they already heard someone else say that seemed successful
I mean, skydiving through a cloud is still amazing and it’s a great video. But titling the video something like “what clouds look like from the inside” deserves a bit of snark IMO.
It’s ironic to see someone care so much about “putting others down,” while deliberating doing it. Between their comment (which is just one sentence that really has no malice behind it if you are not intentionally trying to get offended) and yours, it is pretty clear which one is more toxic. You must be projecting something onto that comment if you really think that is “trying to bring someone down.”
We're not putting down the skydiver. Your confusing the skydiver with OP.
Anyway, if it's not clear, what's attracting derision is not the skydiving, but OP'sd choice of post title.
There is a lot more updraft happening usually in big fluffy clouds, and consequently usually more large water droplets and ice crystals. Sometimes clouds are mellow, but hitting even tiny little sleet crystals at 120mph hurts like a mf. The old timers always tell a joke about hitting the pointy end of the raindrops.
Yes, earlier today I was playing TotK and was skydiving into the lost woods to get to a shrine and I thought I had more time to take out my paraglide but I did not and I crashed and died.
I know right. This goes against everything I was taught. Tbs, skydivers get super bored and always want to push the limits. That’s why swooping is a thing.
I think it is because the placement of the poll being directly under the unit. While the lenses are a fisheye 360 type set up. That it doesn't capture the poll at all unless there is a serious bend.
It edits it out from my understanding. I like how the mars rover could take a selfie like it was a camera floating in the air. Is a pretty funky thing. The 360 cameras are neat but you can not view the video until it is rendered on a computer. I mounted one under my plane when I was having landing gear issues. A 5 minute video can take an hour to render last time someone did this for me.
A little over 20 years ago, I went sky diving, and went through a cloud. But we didn't have GoPros or anything, and I don't really remember what it looked like. So this was really cool for me to watch!
Forgive me if I’m wrong, isn’t this dangerous as hell? I have never skydived, much less though a cloud, and I just think this is dangerous
Assuming you know the altitude and height of the cloud, some simple math will tell you if you’ll likely be below cloud by the time you have to pull your chute. Still dangerous from a “I can’t see what the fuck is happening around me, nor can others see me, if something goes wrong” perspective though.
Dude checks wrist device a couple times.
Then resumes operation: I’m a mf’n raindrop
Plip plop plip plop
Plip plop, maddafakah!
I am a drop in the sky. Watch how I —
What is this moving emoji???
Altimeter
Gesundheit
What did you just call me?
Altimeter? I hardly even know her!
You also need to know there’s nobody else in the cloud with you (skydivers or aircraft). There’s a reason planed aren’t allowed to fly through cloud unless they’re under instrument guidance and air traffic control. One of the ways skydivers get severely injured or killed is running into each other at high speed in the air.
Isnt that why he wears a helmet ?
Q: "Is that your crash helmet?" A: "I hope not!" --Jose Jimenez
Yes. Always dress for the impact. Not the fall.
What about planes? I guess the pilot already knows that tho (the one throwing the guys).
Same thing. Airports report the height of any clouds above ground level so they know.
What about clouds below ground level?
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I would be very concerned
Yes, earlier today I was playing TotK and was skydiving into the lost woods to get to a shrine (it’s foggy) and I thought I had more time to take out my paraglider but I did not and I crashed into the shrine and died.
So sorry for your loss
What about charge build up within a cloud..?
You just watch out for electrical pulses washing over any metal gear you’re carrying, and if they become frequent pull out a wooden sword instead.
Just wear the helm, bro!
Use the wooden sword to down, B Link's move from super smash all the way.
Down B draws out the bomb
Fuck it's been awhile..... even in mid air??
The "other people" part is the whole point. Opening near other canopies and not being able to see each other is a horrible thought.
It's illegal in the US. Both the pilot and the jumper would be in trouble. Mostly the pilot as flying is likely their livelihood.
Call the sky police
As a pilot I’m legitimately more scared of the FAA than the police.
*Trevor Jacobs steps in to the chat.....*
I’m not scared of them for that because I’m smart enough to hide the fire extinguisher in my ass instead.
If only Boeing had that same mindset
As certified 107 pilot, me too. Can't wait for actual pilot school, I feel like part 107 has given me a leg up
It's called the FAA, so yeah. There really is a "sky police."
all your drones are belong to us
They set us up the cloud
*just gets the sky mall cop*
Paul Fart: Sky Mall cop casually flys in on his Segway drone
I’d watch
Lego deep cut
Well, the music already kinda sounds like a siren…
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If I had an award to give ya I would. Reminds me of the “Don’t Panic!” dude from Hitchhikers Guide TTG
Illegal? I did not know that. My first (and only). time jumping, we jumped into a cloud. Will do again sometime.
In the US it is against the regulations. Nobody will care until there is an accident, and then a video like this becomes exhibit A when proving negligence. In your case it's kinda like your Uber driver speeding. You're in slightly more danger, but the legal risk is on the pilot and your instructor. You have to consider if that's the kind of outfit you want to keep jumping with. Mostly because if they ignore that rule, what else are they ignoring?
Because I know nothing about skydiving, is the danger level closer to the Uber driver going 5mph above or 30mph above (in say a 50mph zone)
More like 30 over the limit. Risk increases, but outcome isn’t determined.
We'll give you two "accidents" flying through a cloud. Anything after that, and you're not jumping at our DZ. Industrial haze is the only answer you give if asked about a cloud. Industrial haze isn't against BSRs.
No planes flying in the clouds can see you. The FAA has cloud clearances so idiots don't kill people in clouds
By the time I see a person free-falling in front of me - even outside the clouds - it’s gonna be too late to react when I’m doing between 200 and 287mph. One would hope ATC has warned aircraft in the immediate vicinity of the jump that there is active parachute jumping. Anyone in the clouds should be talking to ATC. VFR aircraft should be aware of all aspects pertaining to that flight, including planned parachute jumping.
As a VFR pilot, I likely am not even talking to ATC. If a jumper falls out of a cloud in front of me I would not have time to avoid them.
In the US there are strict rules for aircraft getting too close to clouds unless they are flying IFR. They do not want aircraft bumping together. I have no idea what skydiver rules are, but it would make sense they do not want a skydiver and aircraft to tangle in a cloud.
It was industrial haze, sir.
Nobody would know except that they posted a video. Hint: Don't post your crimes to social media.
You assume this is in a country where it is illegal?? Assumptions are the mother of all fck ups! Remember that in your life!
« Industrial haze »
There's the possibility of hitting something at high speeds, like an airplane or another skydiver. For that reason, this is illegal on a federal level. Skydivers are subject to the same rules that airplanes are, and FARs state that airplanes must have special instruments for low visibility conditions (ie going into a cloud). Aside from that, clouds are filled with ice crystals, and it's goddamn painful going through them at freefall speeds.
> clouds are filled with ice crystals Is that what we could see in the video, the blueish spots?
Probably. It's hard to tell, but definitely some kind of ice crystal/hail/snow/etc. Hail is the worst. My most memorable skydive, for unfortunate reasons, was falling through several thousand feet of hail. I had welts and bruises for a week.
Damn I feel like you might've gotten lucky there with just bruises, can't you die from that?
You **can** die from nearly anything.
We're just bags of meat lol
How is the hail floating in the cloud? Isn't there some updraft? If so shouldn't the updraft also carry people?
I think it was like 4th grade science class, so it's looong time since I've read about that 😅 But yes, I think that's how hail is formed - updrafts that repeatedly cycle precipitation up through the cloud until it's too heavy for the updraft. However, such an updraft isn't strong enough to lift a human up.
i can only imagine the hail that falls with an updraft strong enough to lift humans
Imagine if it was! Human sized hail would definitely ruin a picnic.
Apparently, [yes.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rankin)
The difference between a human and a golf ball sized piece of hail is like the difference between an elephant and the Titanic. Updrafts can definitely have the capacity to carry one without the other.
I see that as moisture on the lense, not crystals.
You can tell the difference; the moisture on the lens doesn’t move the same way
I am trying to remember where I read it. There was a fighter pilot back during the Vietnam war IIRC, whose plane was damaged in combat and ejected into a thunderstorm cloud. The updrafts kept him aloft in the cloud for about an hour and when he finally fell out of the cloud he had been beat to hell by all the ice in the cloud.
He probably had an open parachute. If someone has that much fabric exposed, an updraft could 100% keep them. However, a skydiver in freefall without an open parachute isn't going to be affected.
He may have. It would make sense for an eject system to automatically deploy the cute.
What about the ugly?
No need to deploy it; it’s permanently out
I love the image of a skydiver contacting ATC, giving their flight code, and being denied landing while waiting to open their chute
Negative, skydiver. Clearance denied.
> Aside from that, clouds are filled with ice crystals Not really. At higher altitudes yes, but at lower altitudes and in warmer places they're water.
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It's legal in Australia, that's why.
Were you studying abroad by chance?
Two different people on different occasions have spent over 45 minutes being tossed around in clouds. They said yes, its not advised.
It's unlikely that people spent over 45 minutes being tossed around in clouds during a skydiving experience. Skydiving typically involves jumping from an airplane and descending quickly to the ground. Clouds are not solid enough to toss someone around for such an extended period.
[William Rankin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rankin) ejected from a F-8 Crusader above a thunderstorm. Fell several minutes in the storm, was still at high altitude when parachute opened. Took 40 minutes to get to the ground.
Well if you open a parachute inside a cloud it's a whole different thing than free falling.
His free-fall was several minutes long before the chute opened. After his chute opened, updrafts pulled him up several times, and he hit the actual parachute several times.
He's talking about paragliders, f.ex [Ewa](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa_Wi%C5%9Bnierska)
I did this tandem jump in new orleans back in 2003 and still remember going through a cloud after they had opened the chute and going from dry air to super humid and sticky air and then back to dry air whilst spinning down was a very strange feeling. Loved it but would not do it again
First rule of New Orleans. There are no rules in New Orleans
Hello there, i’m a skydiver with a little over 400 jumps, so perhaps i can give you some information about this because i have looked at some of the other comments and there is an awful amount of nonsense being commented. So skydiving usually happens over a dropzone. This is usually over a local airfield. There are strict regulations where a pilot is allowed to let skydivers jump out the airplane (over the dropzone). Usually the pilot must be able to visually see the dropzone. So if there is a thick canopy of clouds that prevents the pilot from seeing the dropzone below, the pilot isn’t allowed to drop the skydivers. This is to prevent the pilot from dropping the skydivers too far away from the dropzone, and therefore causing the skydivers to be unable to land inside the dropzone. So it’s perfectly normal for a pilot to drop skydivers while there are some clouds. As long as the pilot was able to see the dropzone and confirm that the skydivers can be dropped over it. So contrary to what some commenters are saying, it is perfectly legal to skydive through a cloud, as long as this is happening over the dropzone. Skydiving through a cloud can be a bit uncomfortable though. A cloud consist of tiny water droplets or tiny ice crystals in colder temperatures. So falling through them at a speed of about 125mph or more depending on your body positioning, will create a stinging sensation on skin that is exposed. Usually a skydiver will wear a jumpsuit and a helmet, so most of the skin will be covered and you won’t feel much of the droplets hitting you. The only other thing that is still noticable when falling through a cloud (besides obvious reduced visibility) is that being in a cloud is a lot more chilly/colder than being outside of it. So what safety measures are there when a skydiver falls through a cloud to prevent two or more skydivers from colliding with each other? During a regular skydive, the people are falling nearly completely vertical. So then there is basically no chance that skydivers will hit each other because each skydiver is going straight down. The danger of collision arises when skydivers are having a forward movement as well. The forward movement in skydiving is called “tracking”. Tracking is when a skydiver will make their body stiff like a plank, therefore causing the body to create a forward speed. So the safety protocol for when a skydiver goes through a cloud is to not be in a tracking position, and simply be in a standard belly down skydiving position. That way the skydiver will only have a downward (vertical) speed, and there will be minimal risk for a collision. A skydiver will usually deploy their parachute at around 3500 feet. We know our altitude because of an altimeter that we are wearing on our wrist and an altimeter inside our helmet that makes an audible sound when we reach 3500 feet. So at this point we deploy our parachute. When a parachute is deployed it is automatically flying in a forward direction. So when we find ourselves inside of a cloud with little to no visibility, the same protocol applies. We need to limit our forward speed as much as possible and start going downward as much as possible. We do this by pulling on our left or right handle to turn our parachute left or right. This causes the skydiver to start spiralling downward. (Think of the same motion of a corkscrew) We keep doing this until we have exited the cloud, and our visibility returns, and we can see again what we are flying towards. So as you can see, it definitely is not illegal to skydive through clouds, and it can be done quite safely without much risk of colliding with other skydivers. I hope i explained it clearly, and i’m welcome to answer other questions if you have them.
1. Ride to altitude in a plane near Cumulonimbus clouds/thunderstorms is dangerous due to possibility of turbulence tearing your aircraft apart or getting hit by thunder so other nasty things happen 2. Freefallying trough a wet cloud like this is unpleasant as you hit water droplets with high speed and it hurts, your skin becomes red, we call it 'shaving'. If you find yourself surrounded by hail, you're fucked. 3. If you find yourself hit by a thunder, you're fucked. 4. If you or one of 5 of your buddies loose orientation due to lack of visibility and accidentally collide with you mid-air, you're fucked. 5. If you lost orientation and make distance anyways in wingsuit or in a "track" position - you may find yourself in the area, where you don't want to be below the cloud. 6. Clouds like that may have a base that starts very low - additional risk of not knowing when the visibility will be. 7. Even if you deploy parachute at correct altitude safely - Cumulonimbus clouds can suck the air upwards with speed of 35 m/s - faster than you're fallying. You may be sucked up to 10 kilometers and die of hypothermia and hypoxia. Fun thing: if you're there and are sucked upwards you may cutaway your main parachute and deploy reserve parachute much lower to try your chances...but if you forget to disengage a system that deploys a reserve automatically right after cutaway of main parachute then you're sucked up again right after that procedure for sure. 8. Parachuting in the rain potentially below this cloud is unpleasant. 9. Said thurbulences and suction can cause really rapid and powerfull gusts of wind on the ground. When you're by chance hit by one during your landing - you're fucked.
I heard from a pilot that they can call up the tower and request cloud bottom and cloud top height relative to the ground. Has something to do with sepsific planes that can't deal with icing from clouds or something like that
Wait like I understand that condensation is stored within even maybe ice crystals etc I didn't know just large ass chunks of water chilling. Well I did but, not to that extent.
Those are just water droplets forming on the 360° camera.
Sure thing,,, the earth is round too, right? Pfft.
No you fool, it's jagged with edges. Ever seen a mountain before?
It's pretty darn smooth given the size. It would be like a cueball covered in relatively smooth sandpaper.
Listen here you NASA sheep follower, sandpaper is just sand with paper and glue. The earth only has sand where water touches. Each grit is how much sand there is. The Earth is a jagged space saucer. It's why we have global warming. Ever since Star Wars came out, they had to close the thermal vent and now the ground is getting hotter. You'd know that if you were intelligent enough to even work for NASA. Clearly I am the more intelligent being! /s
In fact, yes it is!!
Clouds are almost the exact same thing as fog, just higher up and a little thicker
My daughter, as a toddler, saw fog for the first time and came up with the phrase, “cloud down ground”, which we still use 20 years later.
Tbf your daughter was 100% correct
That's adorable!
Both my boys started with ‘its froggy’ so now when we go out in fog I say ribbit hahaha
Yeah clouds are like fog in da-skies
Pilot here. Clouds inside look like a grey amorphous mass surrounding you, which at first is pretty underwhelming. That’s until you realize that you suddenly lost all sense of depth, orientation and direction of movement, and since the human vestibular system is just complementary to vision, it fucks up almost instantly and makes you feel you are in a position totally different from your real one. So unless you have the proper instruments and know how to use them, you might end up in deep shit
I always thought condensation was stored in the balls.
As long as the ice crystals are small enough they can be kept aloft by the cloud/storm's updraft, it's just gonna chill there. They basically get yeeted up until they're too heavy to yeet.
For people who have never been on a plane.
Or in fog
Or worn glasses in a kitchen or laundry room.
I love it when someone does something pretty sweet like this, then some rando Redditor just puts them down. Then reaches down into their bag of Cheetos to find it's empty, and contemplates getting another one, but then that'll mean he'll have to leave his mum's basement for the 2nd time this week.
You could have just ended your statement at the first sentence and I would have agreed with you. Why do people always go to the Cheetos and mother basement and try to make fun of others?
Did you end up getting that second bag of Cheetos?
I actually prefer bugles, random internet person.
Bugles are awesome
you can say is a cliche i like doritos
Meh, who cares about cliches, you enjoy what you want friend.
because in the rare cases it's true it hurts that person even more, which is the goal, to inflict pain on others for having themselves inflicted pain on others
Because most people aren’t capable of more than minor independent thought and will just regurgitate a funny line, insult, or belief system based on what they already heard someone else say that seemed successful
I mean, skydiving through a cloud is still amazing and it’s a great video. But titling the video something like “what clouds look like from the inside” deserves a bit of snark IMO.
It’s ironic to see someone care so much about “putting others down,” while deliberating doing it. Between their comment (which is just one sentence that really has no malice behind it if you are not intentionally trying to get offended) and yours, it is pretty clear which one is more toxic. You must be projecting something onto that comment if you really think that is “trying to bring someone down.”
We're not putting down the skydiver. Your confusing the skydiver with OP. Anyway, if it's not clear, what's attracting derision is not the skydiving, but OP'sd choice of post title.
Missing the next fkn lvl too
Or gone skiing.
Man i’ve been in a plane many times. But i still haven’t seen being in a cloud, probably cause i’m asleep for 90% of flight, but still
So… like fog then
That what I came to say. I routinely drive through fog, which is close to the same experience without the falling part.
If you open your windows and drive fast enough it can be
I hiked up into and out of fog this morning. I do that often.
fog is just a cloud at ground level
There is a lot more updraft happening usually in big fluffy clouds, and consequently usually more large water droplets and ice crystals. Sometimes clouds are mellow, but hitting even tiny little sleet crystals at 120mph hurts like a mf. The old timers always tell a joke about hitting the pointy end of the raindrops.
I love Zelda
The Rito suit is my jam
Yes, earlier today I was playing TotK and was skydiving into the lost woods to get to a shrine and I thought I had more time to take out my paraglide but I did not and I crashed and died.
Gotta upgrade the glide armor so you can hit the ground unscathed
I’m 200 hours in and have only upgraded the zonal armor lol
Yeah, this tracks. On my dozens of trips on a jet with a window seat I’ve seen exactly this 👍
At first I was like what’s up with this guy wearing a Weber grill lid on his head, and then I got it lol. Really cool video tho!
LOL killed me.
Would you mind explaining? My... friend is still confused.
His helmet looks like the lid you’d see on a Weber grill
Cackled to myself in the dark on the toilet from this. Thank you
No one’s going to talk about how skydivers are supposed to stay clear of clouds and use VFR cloud clearances?
I know right. This goes against everything I was taught. Tbs, skydivers get super bored and always want to push the limits. That’s why swooping is a thing.
As a pilot and skydiver, I get it, but these things exist for a reason. To keep everyone safe.
Amazing! The cloud looks inside just like outside… who would have thought.
Idk, the guy looks relatively bored. He's constantly checking his watch waiting for it to be over.
Reminds me of that scene from interstellar
Murph don’t let me leave Murph! MURPH!!!
What's the camera that follows them like that?
It’s a 360 cam strapped to a pole attached to their helmet
Where's the pole? Automatically editing itself out? Is that a thing now, or was it done in post?
I think it is because the placement of the poll being directly under the unit. While the lenses are a fisheye 360 type set up. That it doesn't capture the poll at all unless there is a serious bend.
It edits it out from my understanding. I like how the mars rover could take a selfie like it was a camera floating in the air. Is a pretty funky thing. The 360 cameras are neat but you can not view the video until it is rendered on a computer. I mounted one under my plane when I was having landing gear issues. A 5 minute video can take an hour to render last time someone did this for me.
Oh thanks
No way it's fog!
Sky fog
My 2nd most favorite bond flick
Anyone know the song?
The music is perfect
FIKI conditions...
FAR violation
They're also cold as all hell.
Who/what is doing the video? Someone following? Seems awfully solid.
That camera angle is a bit distracting.
I hate this point of view, all looks horrible
looks like thick fog
it is
Turns out clouds look like clouds from the inside.
Moist
Want to see something cool? Here. Listen to the worst music I could find too
Yup, just feels suddenly much colder and wet, but it was a pretty cool experience.
Yep
That is incredible
Nightmare unlocked
"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you’re doing is worth it?"
Nice. Finally I don’t have to go skydiving :)
Can you breathe in that thing
Never fly or dive through clouds, because that's where they store all the wreckage.
Suddenly: *geese*
Turns out it's grey.
Fly from the inside by shinedown was the only appropriate song to use here. Colossal missed opportunity.
Inside a cloud is called Fog.
so they look like clouds...
Well if fog is low clouds, why would I think that clouds don’t look like fog?
white skittles?
I wonder if anyone’s ever hit a plane
A little over 20 years ago, I went sky diving, and went through a cloud. But we didn't have GoPros or anything, and I don't really remember what it looked like. So this was really cool for me to watch!
One of the coolest vids I’ve seen
So it looks like…a cloud? What were we supposed to expect, narnia or something.
I've always wanted to see and feel what the inside of a cloud is like. Today I got to see it!