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How high is the seventh heaven? Detailed answer Directory / Big encyclopedia. Questions for quiz and self-education Did you know? How high is the seventh heaven? In English, "seventh heaven" sounds like "seventh heaven" and like "cloud nine", that is, "ninth cloud". In this case, we will focus on the clouds. According to the International Cloud Atlas, Cloud 0, better known as cirrus, is considered the highest, white and fibrous, consisting of thin filaments or flakes. The height of a cirrus cloud can reach 12 m. The ninth cloud is a cumulonimbus (cumulo-nimbus), a massive "tower", foreshadowing a thunderstorm. Cumulonimbus is at the very bottom of the scale, since a single cloud of this type can cover a whole range of altitudes - from several hundred meters to the very edge of the stratosphere (approximately 15 thousand meters). As with most idiomatic phrases, "seventh heaven" or "ninth cloud" can hardly be tied to any one particular source. A cloud of seven, eight, nine - they are all officially registered, so, most likely, people simply settled on the number nine, since nine seemed to them a lucky number. Moreover, who will deny how attractive it is - to lie on a large soft cloud and enjoy life? The International Cloud Atlas was first published in 1896, after the International Meteorological Conference established the Committee on Clouds to harmonize an international system for naming and identifying different types of clouds. The ten categories indicated were based largely on the original ideas of Luke Howard (1772-1864), an English chemist who published an Essay on the Modification of Clouds in 1802. A great influence on Howard's writings was his personal experience: the case of abnormal weather conditions that Luke encountered in 1783 as a child - when volcanic eruptions in Japan and Iceland led to the formation of the "Great Fog" that covered most of Europe. Howard's work inspired such famous landscape painters as John Constable, D.M. W Turner and Caspar David Friedrich. The great Goethe dedicated four poems to Howard, calling the modest English Quaker "the godfather of the clouds." Clouds are collections of tiny drops of water or ice crystals held in suspension in the atmosphere. All these droplets or crystals are formed due to the condensation of water vapor around even smaller particles of things we all know like smoke or salt. Scientists call them "condensation nuclei". Cirrus are the only clouds in the sky that are made entirely of ice. In the atmosphere, they are represented much more significantly than previously thought. What's more, they help regulate the Earth's temperature. Quite often, the initiator of their formation is the contrails of jet aircraft. When air traffic was completely blocked after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, daily temperature fluctuations in the United States increased by 3 ° C over the next forty-eight hours. The reason is the reduction of feathery protection and, as a result, the emission of more heat at night and the transmission of more sunlight during the day. Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson Random interesting fact from the Great Encyclopedia: Which basketball player, unwittingly, predicted the year of his death? In 1974, basketball player Pete Maravich said in an interview: "I don't want to play in the NBA for 10 years and die of a heart attack at 40." And so it happened: in 1980, 10 years after the start of his NBA career, Maravich ended it due to an injury. And in 1988, when Pete was exactly 40 years old, he died of a heart attack during an amateur game in the gym with friends.
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