Topic: lightning strikes may be caused by cosmic rays
rasmus
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posted 29 May 2005 07:39 PM
Along with other surprising mysteries, like how cats purr, or why, no matter how much parmesan you add to pasta at the beginning of the meal, you will always have to add more at the end, there is the mystery of how lightning is initiated -- something hitherto not understood. Now, perhaps, there is an answer
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Papal Bull
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posted 29 May 2005 08:42 PM
So, if I get hit by lightning I have a chance that I could gain the power of the Fantastic Four?
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rasmus
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Babbler # 621
posted 29 May 2005 09:04 PM
But what if you become The Thing?
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peopleperson
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posted 29 May 2005 09:14 PM
quote: from the "scotsman" article: It is known that during a storm, ice particles and hailstones collide creating a negative electric charge at the bottom of a cloud that can then discharge dramatically into the positively charged ground.
i'll say yes, in part, and refer the curious tohow lightning works ground lightening actually goes from the ground to the cloud, though so fast we see it the other way around... i've been in a number of storms, and yet... no superpowers
quote: But what if you become The Thing?
\ the comic book "thing", i might be ok with... eventually, but john carpenter's "thing"? NO WAY!
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Papal Bull
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posted 29 May 2005 09:28 PM
quote:Originally posted by rasmus raven: But what if you become The Thing?
That would be an improvement!
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Hawkins
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posted 29 May 2005 10:29 PM
So very true, I think we should be working on the cheese problem. It is never enough till it becomes too much .
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forum observer
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posted 30 May 2005 01:36 AM
Andrey Kravtsov is very helpful in showing us the universe at a earlier time, can arise from "strings of a kind?"
Sounds wave in the CMB?
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DrConway
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posted 30 May 2005 06:18 PM
forum observer, your posts are, as usual, out in the deep meadow of the baseball field.
I never really thought, before, about just how the charge imbalance correction (soporific phrase for "lightning bolt") between the clouds and the earth actually gets started. Fascinating.
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forum observer
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Babbler # 7605
posted 31 May 2005 03:04 AM
Oh your to kind Slap! "now wake up."
"Slowly" Dr.Conway is pulled from his dithering.
Now to see if he is really awake, I am going to try this experiment on him? What do you see above?
Reverting to his happy place....Doctor Conway.... Dr. Conway......
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posted 29 May 2005 07:39 PM
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Fascinating. 
