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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."

3 of 57 comments (clear)

  1. Quick! by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Patent it!!!

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  2. Re:New Kind? by barakn · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You go to Baskin-Robbins for ice cream, and the pimply-faced teenager behind the counter asks "what kind of ice cream would you like?"

    Naturally you reply "What kind? It's either ice cream or it isn't."

    He gives you vanilla.

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  3. Re:New Kind? by barakn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    of course it does't make any sense out of context, which is the case if its parent is modded so low nobody sees it.

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    "I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show