#2664: Cloud Swirls explain

[Cueball and Megan standing on a field, looking out at a landscape of clouds]

Cueball: It’s weird to think there are countless planets with air and stuff but no life.

Cueball: Billions of years of clouds making cool shapes with no one to look at them.

[Just Cueball and Megan standing next to each other]

Megan: Yeah, it seems like a waste. The universe getting the complex fluid dynamics right for every momentary swirl of cloud.

Megan: Just a huge amount of work.

[Cueball and Megan walk away to the right]

Cueball: Maybe atmospheres have smooth laminar flow until someone looks closely.

Megan: Or maybe the universe just likes making swirly clouds, and is annoyed that we’re watching.