lightning

Lightning costs Rio de Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue tip of thumb

http://news.uk.msn.com/blog/trending-blogpost.aspx?post=9b41f8c0-6434-42c6-8112-ac16a6f40891&_nwpt=1 Several questions that I have are: How often does lightning occur over the Vatican City? And Is the top of that building made out of any particular materials, let's say metal, to make it more...

This is just beautiful. A lightning filmed at over 7,000 fps. This 33 second clip is a bit over 1/10th of a second in realtime: _1mB5rM8WHU Greetings, Chris

Any lightning fans on here? Thought I'd share a couple: I had to turn down the curves on the 1st one because it was so close the image was all washed out....

Howdy, Buckaroos! Last night, after some violent thunderstorms had knocked out the power to my area, I observed something that I am at a loss to explain or even fully describe. The storm had temporarily (over my location) ceased raining, but the electrical discharges were rapidly growing in...

So lightning appears to have struck the steeple of a Nashville church, and started a fire. The article headline in the paper read "Members 'blessed' as church survives major fire damage" There are statements quoted in the article such as "it could have burned everything down", and a few other...

I thought I was misreading this when I read that lightning is claimed to disturb trade winds the way rocks in a stream create turbulence. I'd never imagined a connection between lightning activity and large scale air movements and really still don't see how that could happen so I wish there was...

Wow! If this is what God does to her when she's praying, what's he going to do if He catches her breaking a Commandment or something?

Guess the answer was "no"? http://www.wsbtv.com/news/9293414/detail.html "She said 'Amen' and the room was engulfed in a huge ball of fire. The 65-year-old Brown said she is blessed to be alive." Uh....OK.

hi, all i was listening to a radio programme wednesday on ME and peps claiming they where cured by lighting process they did not mention the before and after adrenaline levels and i cant seem to find what is a normal level etc or any scientific papers on this so called lightning process...

Hi, I often find myself walking the rivers/streets in this city when it is raining. And when it rains, it pours down and there is a huge number of lightning strikes. Sometimes there is one every 2-3 seconds. And this goes on for a couple of hours. It's like the friggin' cat-walk... Now, I can...

There is currently much media talk about pilots being temporarily "blinded" by land based lasers. A technician was arrested and confessed to pointing a fibre optic testing green laser he bought on ebay for $100 at an aircraft. Green lasers certainly can affect night vision which peaks in the...

I'm reading up on crop circles at the moment - I recommend "Round in Circles" by Jim Schnabel - and the subject of ball lightning came up. I know there has been some controversy on the subject, but what I seem to be getting is that it does exist as some sort of plasma effect. Is this right...

Has ball lightning been reproduced in a lab yet?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/05/29/golfers.lightning.ap/index.html Imagine the effect something like this would have had on the primitive mind. The effect on the modern mind is - this confirms only God can hit a 1-iron.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3209223.stm Given how ultra woo-woo Mel Gibson is taken to seeing bumper-stickers as signs from the Almighty (always confirming his belief system, of course) how does THIS square with his beliefs? "God WANTS ME to make this film, that's why He's...

...what the hell is up with this!? 'I' thought that when the electricity went through the air, it traveled faster than the speed of sound, split the air, then *CLAP* The air slams back together and you get 'thunder'. As a child I remember counting "one-one-thousand", two-one-thousand...