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| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012
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Posts: 6566 | spectrometer solves ball lightning mystery... maybe seems to me someone could produce one artificially now that the 'ingredients' are known and test the part that isn't well understood https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ibyVYUn4b6Y I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
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| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Posts: 23240 | AI result Quote: • Ordinary & Cloud-to-Cloud Lightning: Extremely common. Ordinary cloud-to-ground lightning strikes Earth about 8 million times daily.
• Positive Lightning: Makes up less than 5% of all lightning strikes. While uncommon, it is still orders of magnitude more frequent than ball lightning.
• Red Sprites, Blue Jets, and Gigantic Jets: Upper-atmospheric luminous events that occur thousands to tens of thousands of times per year globally; phenomena like red sprites are now routinely captured by storm photographers and have a solid scientific consensus compared to ball lightning.
• St. Elmo's Fire: A continuous glowing plasma discharge that frequently forms on sharp objects like ship masts or airplane wings during thunderstorms; it is much more commonly observed by pilots and mariners than ball lightning.
• Ball Lightning: Widely ranked as the rarest and most elusive form of transient electrical activity. While historical reports span over 800 years (with over 10,000 global accounts), confirmed, high-frame-rate scientific recordings or optical spectrums are exceedingly scarce—with the first decent optical spectrum data only captured in 2014.
Had a thought. Maybe life begin with some combination of ball lightning and some other events. The rarity of something can explain why finding the answer to such a problem as life beginning is so hard. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
