It shows a raindrop starts as a sphere but bursts into a shower of smaller droplets within a few hundredths of a second.
Firstly the drop flattens out into a pancake shape. As the pancake widens and thins, the onrush of air causes it to hollow out, like an upturned bag.
The bag inflates beyond the ability of the water's tension to hold it together and shatters.
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by stacy09.
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Try this in a vacuum. Oh wow, they're all spheres again...
Every raindrop only differs by it's size
(and of course by the trace elements / compounds the drop contains because the dispersion of said particles is not necessarily uniform in an active weather system).
Irregular plurals always trip me up. Thanks for letting me know, Johnny Cat!
Keep for future.
Strip for Spares
Flog off
Just Passing.
Airplanes can't fly forever. They get old, the metal starts to fatigue, the planes become too costly to maintain. Probably very near this air force base is a boneyard for commercial aircraft, where 747s, DC-10s, et al. are parked by airlines for many of the same reasons.