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gravity's loudest argument, a river that refuses to take the stairs
means A place where flowing water drops sharply over a ledge or cliff, falling more or less straight down.
from A plain English compound, old and unpretentious: 'water' (Old English wæter, from a deep Germanic root shared with Dutch water and German Wasser, all reaching back to a Proto-Indo-European source) plus 'fall' (Old English feallan, 'to drop'). Two everyday words bolted together to name an everyday wonder — the language simply described what it saw: water, falling.
- tallest drop
- Angel Falls plunges 979 meters in Venezuela
- mist trick
- spray scatters sunlight into permanent rainbows
- always moving
- erosion drags them slowly upstream over millennia
- frozen giants
- some freeze solid and get climbed with axes
- ocean version
- underwater waterfalls exist, driven by salt and temperature
niagara falls — 188 feet tall, 750,000 gallons per second flows between us and canada
angel falls — 3,212 feet, world's highest uninterrupted waterfall in venezuela
victoria falls — 355 feet tall, 1 mile wide, called 'the smoke that thunders' between zambia and zimbabwe
yosemite falls — 2,425 feet total drop in california's sierra nevada mountains