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Scientists Discover A New Kind Of Lightning

Posted by timothy on from the zap-zap dept.

Exoman writes "Lightning that shoots upward up to 60 miles from the clouds? A team of researchers led by Han-Tzong Su of the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, videotaped the discharges last July from an observatory on the southern tip of the island. The lightning was firing from the top of thunderclouds more than 300 miles away across the South China Sea. The researchers reported their work Thursday in the journal Nature."

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  1. Re:But I thought... by warpSpeed · · Score: 3, Funny
    There's 3 types of lightning: Cloud to ground, ground to cloud, and cloud to cloud. I guess you can figure out which has the positive and negative charge if, as stated above, charge flows from - to +.
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    Wouldn't that be 11 types of lightning?