If a raindrop falls to the ground...

[owlice]

... and I lose my internet connection, can anyone hear me scream?

[bystander]

The cats can

[Beyond]

Shouldn't that be----Hoot-like-hell??

[owlice]

Must admit it's more likely to be silent swearing at Verizon...

[orin stepanek]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2OdPDEG ... re=related[/youtube]

[Orca]

Are you using cable? I had trouble with cable all the time.

Since I've been using fiber the last few years I've been outage-free - to say nothing of the big boost in bandwidth I got when I made the switch, though I guess some folks on cable have access to a healthy pipe.

EDIT:

There was one outage. It involved my shovel going through the fiber line! Sure, I should have had them come by and mark it; but to be fair they told me it was 2 feet deep - turns out the contractors that put it in only dug a trench about 5 inches down. I didn't think I'd be even close.

[owlice]

I'm on DSL... unless a squirrel scratches himself in Bethesda, in which case I'm waiting for DSL to come back online...

[emc]

There are worse things one can lose other than the internet connection… not that it qualifies, but I accidently threw my car keys into the trash can once and didn’t remember until a few days after trash pickup that I had bundled them with some trash from my vehicle… actually what I remembered was the sound of the keys dropping inside the can… funny how the brain works… or not.

[geckzilla]

So the moral of the story is... never accumulate enough refuse in one's vehicle to lose one's keys in. Or, perhaps, never throw away the refuse.

[orin stepanek]

I'm on DSL... unless a squirrel scratches himself in Bethesda, in which case I'm waiting for DSL to come back online...

About a year ago I lost connection every time it rained. Turns out that the squirrels ate through the insulation on the cable at the pole. After the cable company replaced the cable the problem went away.

[Beyond]

So the moral of the story is... never accumulate enough refuse in one's vehicle to lose one's keys in. Or, perhaps, never throw away the refuse.

Or just refuse to put your keys in the refuse!

[Star*Hopper]

... and I lose my internet connection, can anyone hear me scream?

If a man speaks in a forest but no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

[owlice]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[Star*Hopper]

But why is it that rain drops, but snow falls?

[Beyond]

Why is it that someone cuts a tree down and then cuts it up??

[Star*Hopper]

'Cuz ya'd look pretty dumb cutting it up then trying to cut it down's what I figger.
But I never could figger why they got Interstate Hiways in Hawaii.

[Chris Peterson]

There are worse things one can lose other than the internet connection… not that it qualifies, but I accidently threw my car keys into the trash can once and didn’t remember until a few days after trash pickup that I had bundled them with some trash from my vehicle… actually what I remembered was the sound of the keys dropping inside the can… funny how the brain works… or not.

Personally, I'd much rather lose my car keys than my Internet connection. It's no problem at all getting by without a car, but without connectivity... no way.

[neufer]

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But why is it that rain drops, but snow falls?

<<I am obsessed with falling snow. Often I stand amid a flaky chaos, hypnotized, as snow tumbles to its eventual destination. Sometimes when I am out in a storm I feel my world is a Dreamswork creation (think Polar Express) and I fixate on an individual snowflake way up in the sky and follow it's journey until it becomes part of the blend. The other day, when it was way too cold, I stood outside my office and watched as the sun was a backlight to a blizzard. This snowy abstract is the playful result of using a rather small aperture and long-ish shutter speed.>>

[BMAONE23]

But why is it that rain drops, but snow falls?

For the most part, the terminology used to describe the particular percipitation process may have much to do with he shape of the particle in question.
(Rain) Drop can be defined as an ammount of liquid that is held together by its surface tension. The ammount of surface tension in the liquid involved will determine the maximum size of the drop. Other factors with respect to Rain drops are the speed of the wind and the speed at which the drop is falling. The average raindrop, without the influense of wind, will fall at about 600 feet (183 meters) per minute or about 7 miles (11 kilometers) per hour.

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(Image courtesy of Wikipedia)
Snow forms in Flakes rather than drops and has a higher atmospheric resistance. They fall, when not driven by the wind, at about 1.5 mph Flake sizes can range from 1mm (0.1 cm.) up to slightly larger than 0.66 cm. with the average being about 0.45 cm.

an image from that site

So Rain drops and Snow falls

[owlice]

Rain drops and snow flakes.

[Orca]

Why do we "shine" a flashlight but "shoot" or "fire" a laser?

Oh wait, I know.


LASERS GO PEW PEW

[Beyond]

Rain drops and snow flakes.

And fishys swim back and forth.

[orin stepanek]

Another rain drops song!

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[neufer]

Another rain drops song!

So...what's with the snowfall in the background :!:

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[owlice]

So...what's with the snowfall in the background

That's not snow... it's a waterfall.