Ever think about how clouds shaped the history of the world?

[Judas Priest]

Think about how different the world we live in would be if the earth was constantly covered by clouds.

The early sailors would have never risked sailing away with no means to navigate; or if they did, they would have never returned. There would be no maps, and the apparent movement of the sun, moon and stars would be unknown.

Mankind probably would not have figured out that the earth is a (near) sphere; at least not as soon as they did.

The whole concept of our solar system, galaxy and the universe would be completely unknown. At least until someone had the idea to shoot a rocket up with a camera on it. But why would they?

I think our technological development would be hundreds, if not thousands of years behind where we are now.

Fascinating, at least to me

 

[olson_jr]

Yea, really!

If it was always cloudy some folks might still think the earth is flat and want to shoot themselves into space to prove their theory.

Speaking of a cloudy thought process!


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-flat-earth-rocket-20171124-story.html

 

[BigElCat]

It would get pitch dark at night time, and there would be no weather to talk about.

 

[sKiZo]

I imagine it'd be a bit warmer too ... Surface of Venus is better than 800F due to constant cloud cover.

 

[quaddriver]

plus, some of those clouds are shaped like clowns and that scares people...

 

[jimfet]

Can you get me a bag of that stuff.

 

[DrumminDaddy]

Can you get me a bag of that stuff.

 

[ETLS]

Can you get me a bag of that stuff.

Just pick the purple ones.

 

[Dingman]

IMO, that's like asking what an amp would be like without controls. Or transistors.

Mankind wouldn't be figuring out anything. Wouldn't exist.

It's part of the system - you simply couldn't have the system without. What with moving moisture around, rain, cooling, cleaning. Nope, not even thinking about it.