Something you don’t see every day and quite possibly the fastest way to make a baseball bat, this poor tree just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. What am I looking at? A tree that got it’s bark ripped off by lighting. TIL: the reason why lightning can do this
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Just some Lightning Striking inside a Volcano
TIL: Volcanic eruption sometimes create lightning. The Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan was caught erupting in early January. Magma bubbles so hot they glow and shoot away as liquid rock bursts through the Earth’s surface from below. Photographer Martin Rietze . [Cheers laughingsquid]
Army Testing Laser Guided Lightning Bolt Weapon
It was only a matter of time before someone harnessed the power of the lightning bolt and turned into a weapon (Nikola Tesla?). Ok, so they are not really using Mother Nature’s lightning bolts (cause that would be way too cool), but a U.S. Army lab is testing how lasers can create an energized plasma
Impressive Lighting Bolts
Impressive…Six bolts zap Lake Michigan during this electrical thunderstorm near Lake Shore Drive – Chicago. Kinda looks like they are dropping off some packages into the water. UFO’s? [Cheers kazatormentas]
Unbelievable Picture of Eight Lightning Bolts Striking San Francisco Bridge
Who was that person who said lightning never strikes twice? This unbelievable picture was taken during a wicked storm rocked San Francisco last night, by photographer Phil McGrew who rigged his camera to a take long exposure shots (about 20 seconds). Mr McGrew, 49, was shocked at the striking image which shows the split-second moment
Hydra Skyscraper – Harvesting the Lightning Bolt for Energy
In the words of Nikola Tesla, “Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need for coal, oil, gas or any other of the common fuels”. There are more than 16 million lightning storms in the world every year. The average bolt of lightning carries an electric
Kirishima Volcano spews a Tentacle of Lightning – the end is near
Volcanic lighting is still very much a mystery to scientists; it is believed that that electrically charged silica—part of magma—interacts with the atmosphere when it flies out of a volcano. However, if I happen to be near a volcano that just spewed a tentacle of lightning out of its ass, I would be on the
This is what Superman would see if he looked at Lightning
This is probably what Superman would see if he looked at lighting with his X-ray vision. This is the first captured X-ray image of lighting taken by the international Center for Lightning research and Testing (ICLRT) near Gainesville, Florida (July and August). Using a custom-built camera the size of a refrigerator capable of snapping 10
