Congratulations cloudspotter team

[Hans Stocker]

Congratulations with the 250,000th submission that the cloudspotter team verified. And what a spectacular one it is.

I repeat the last sentence of the topic about this milestone on the home page: ”And thank you to our amazing team of moderators for sharing their knowledge of cloud identification around the world.”

I do thank the volunteers as well as an enthusiastic user of the Cloudspotter app. It is this app that introduced me some two and half years back into the world of clouds. I got infected with the cloudspotting virus and I even succeeded to infect some people around me with the virus.

The volunteers make the fun possible. So again, many thanks.

Herewith a picture I made with the Cloudspotter app. It shows a ghostly, friendly and alien appearance. I like to think he came to show his satisfaction that also clouds elsewhere in the universe have our interest.

Which  brings me to the question whether the mentioned redesign of the cloudspotter app would enable the user to submit “Things that look like clouds”?

[Gavin Pretor-Pinney]

Thanks for of this, Hans. I’ll let the mods know. I’m planning to add an About Us page listing the CloudSpotter mods. They have been hidden for too long.

Clouds that look like thigs is a nice idea as an addition. I will discuss it with the developers.

Thanks again!

[Laurence Green]

Thanks muchly, Hans and Gavin.  Good and interesting posts here.

I really like the idea by Gavin about “Clouds that look like things”.  Keep it coming, I’d say!

 

Laurence

 

[Howard Brown]

I think we are in a twist here.
Hans said ‘would enable the user to submit “Things that look like clouds”?’ (see N.B. below).
Gavin replied ‘Clouds that look like thigs is a nice idea’ and Laurence perpetuated Gavin.

N.B. The Mercedes magazine had a long running theme of things that looked like the Mercedes three pointed star popping up in unusual/unlikely places.

I suggest ‘Clouds that look like..’ we have long had, whereas ‘Things that look like clouds’ is a new idea, though perhaps suggestive of ‘fumulus’.

[Hans Stocker]

This is a really funny twist. I wrote indeed “Things that look like clouds” and now – after reading Hygge’s comment – I’d like to think I did it on purpose, …. but I did not. In my defense I could state that the alien figure on the picture is a “Thing that looked like a cloud”, but … of course I meant “Clouds that look like things”. Thank you Hygge.

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