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now imagine a dog with a propeller hat
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I like this game. Imagine if all of the water vapor in a cloud condensed in an even distribution so that all of the rain fell at once.
"There's an xkcd for that"
https://what-if.xkcd.com/12/
After explaining the destructive force of a single raindrop over a kilometer in diameter:
Poetry. True poetry.
I can only recommend Randall Munroe's books "what if", " how to" and "what if 2". They are really entertaining comedy.
Think explainer was great if you were in for that sort of thing.
That one, I wasn't a big fan of. But maybe that's because I am not a native English speaker. Maybe its better for native speakers.
I could absolutely understand the difficulty of a non native English speaker in understanding the extreme amount of implication and nuance that book requires.
Using simpler words does not mean a smoother conveyance of information.