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kalkulat@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting.

www.quantamagazine.org

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What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting.

www.quantamagazine.org

kalkulat@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting. | Quanta Magazine
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Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena.
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    Scary that if true some of this stuff is true, it could lead to the weaponization of lightning.

    A satellite that can shoot an artifical cosmic ray and initiate the avalanche seems like something straight out of Sci-fi.

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      Let’s hope Trump dies today before this can be weaponised. I can already see the AI pictures of him as Zeus.

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      Im more wondering if this could produce power.

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