Doing the math: 1,000,000,000 x 0.5 = 500,000,000 grams of water droplets in our cloud. That is about 500,000 kilograms or 1.1 million pounds (about 551 tons). But, that “heavy” cloud is floating over your head because the air below it is even heavier— the lesser density of the cloud allows it to float on the dryer and more-dense air.
Planes, helicopters- lots heavy stuff not falling faster than lighter ones
You can find exceptions, but on average, heavier objects will fall very slightly faster than light ones, because they excert their own gravity field onto Earth and therefore pull it towards themselves.
This requires a somewhat unintuitive definition of “falling”, in that both the object and Earth itself moves, but given that any object with mass excerts a gravitational field, there is not actually any other definition.
https://www.usgs.gov/water-science-school/science/how-much-does-a-cloud-weigh
Planes, helicopters- lots heavy stuff not falling faster than lighter ones
You can find exceptions, but on average, heavier objects will fall very slightly faster than light ones, because they excert their own gravity field onto Earth and therefore pull it towards themselves.
This requires a somewhat unintuitive definition of “falling”, in that both the object and Earth itself moves, but given that any object with mass excerts a gravitational field, there is not actually any other definition.
No.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle
Try dropping your phone from a hot air balloon and see which one hits the ground first.
A hot air balloon masses a lot but weighs nothing
Theres a yo’ mama joke in there somewhere.
If you want to be pedantic, it weighs less than nothing.
If you want to be really pedantic, it weighs a lot, but the upward buoyant force from Archimedes’ principle counteracts it completely, and then some.