I had always thought that water didnt have its own shape, that it takes the shape of the object that its placed in. in the picture i have attached it shows water having a sphericle shape, as if it has a skin on the outside keeping its shape. i thought water was very maluable and that its molecules are freely floating (yeah i know that sounds like the scientific explination of primary school, but thats the only way i know how to explain it, but its the general idea).. i think.

i've been wonding about this for a while now, and decided to look here for an answer,

i play in goal for a football (soccer) team, and while playing in matches, often in the wind and rain, i often find myself getting cold/wet. Are there any positions that i can stand it to minimise the ammount of me getting wet, cold etc.

A somewhat ghoulish subject but can't help asking :  A cyclone damage reporter showed a roofless house with ceiling fans having blades bent downwards and remarked that this is what mostly happens to the ceiling fans.   Now if, as we are led to believe, the roof was lifted off by aerofoil style differential pressure why wouldn't the blades point upwards?

If I scatter soot or some other dark powder on the ice and snow covering my driveway, will it thaw appreciably faster?

This is what happened when I warmed up the car and opened the window.

8 AM Feb 2, 2011 New York City    -  -  Click on photo to enlarge -

In the Cape we are famous for our south easter that blows mainly in the summer and is known to hit between 40 and 50kms per hour..my question is if the wind speed at ground level is 40km an hour what is it at 100ft......200ft........300ft ect and is it faster or slower the higher up you go.

In my lifetime I have seen many balloons floating up into the sky... But where do they go?

We (the UK) have had a lot of snow and sub-zero temperatures recently, followed by brief thaws and then sub-zero temperatures, and the water in the pond has frozen white and then these large dendrite-like structures have appeared - the pond is still frozen solid. There are also what looks like bubbles frozen into the ice below the surface and odd dents in the surface..

An age old debate between my grandfather and my mother.

He insists on hot days to close the house up and pull all the blinds down.

My mother however opens all the blinds and every window to let air through.

Who is right? I know there are many factors but surely one must be generally cooler than the other.

If it helps we live in a humid Queensland climate, would it make any difference if it was a dry hot environment?