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Ball Lightning Caught On Video and Spectrograph
symbolset writes "Ball lightning has been reported for hundreds of years, and experimentally produced, but for the first time a natural will 'o wisp has been captured on video and amazingly, spectrograph, accidentally by researchers studying ordinary lightning."
I'd just like to note that a will o' the wisp is not the same thing as ball lightning.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
can anybody find a link to the actual video? I followed the link in the summary but got to a series of other pages about the video, but not the video itself.
Warning: This is another of those annoying website articles that describe a visually fascinating thing, but don't actually include any pictures or videos of said fascinating thing. Not even the the spectrograph, though that seems to be in the paper behind the paywall. The only picture is of some earlier lab-made ball lightning.
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Ball lightning video
(Don't complain that it is the Daily Mail, it worked better than the Puffington Hosts.)
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A grandmother of mine told a story about ball lighting that she saw in her kitchen. During a thunderstorm a bolt of lighting struck near her home and a bright hissing ball jumped out the phone, fell to the floor, moved a little ways across the floor leaving small scorch marks and vanished. This would have been the 1940's and the phone was probably a wall mounted rotary.
She was a sober and modest person with a sound mind throughout her life. I don't doubt the story.
There was a speculative fiction TV show where ball lighting was a major plot on one episode. I think it was relatively short lived. Can't remember the name or find it using a standard search.
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In the woods when I was at summer camp. Sometimes I wonder if ball lightning isn't simply an unlucky bird that got turned into instant plasma.
Maybe sometime, but I've been within five feet of a fair sized ball, and a vaporized bird would not be my first choice for an explanation. It melted the screen in my bedroom window.
There are plenty of videos of ball lightning on Youtube. There are some stupid fakes on that page, but plenty of real ones. Another Slashdot non-story with piss-poor links and a total lack of research.
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Ball lightning caught on video
Wow! I sure would like to see that. Luckily this is the internet, where the magic of hypertext means information can be linked to quickly and easily.
Hmm? There's no link to the video in the summary, you say? Well that's not very good.
Hmm? There's not even a link to the video in the article? Slashtwats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Are two VERY different things.
Will O' the Wisp is a B 0/1 Flying regenerating creature
Ball Lightning is an RRR 6/1 trample haste creature that has to be sacrificed at the end of turn.
Similar? really???
There's no need for a bird when you've got water vapor to work with.
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To be fair, the land was not granted to the Christians who were promised an entirely new universe.
They certainly thought that they had a holy right to it, back when they decided to go and take it from the Muslims starting in 1095, spending the next 200 years trying to gain and maintain control of it.
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That's because they weren't paying attention when their leader told them to stay separate from the world's political affairs. Or more likely because they were greedy, power-hungry idiots using religion as a cover for their ambitions.
Amazingly enough, a friend and I were talking about very odd weather in our areas just last week. He lives in Reno and I am about three or four hours north of him, in Oregon. Back in the summer of 2003, I had seen four mid-air plasma balls during a huge thunderstorm. I had even spoken to a meteorologist friend who worked for ABC Medford (Oregon) after the storm passed by, who told me I had seen a very rare event. I only wish I had video.
What had happened was a bunch of thunderstorms had merged in to a super-cell and according to radar, was moving north and would pass through the valley I live in. As I was home anyway, decided to go upstairs to view the approaching storm. My home sits up a bit higher than the rest of town so I get a good view of storms coming up the valley.
As the storm arrived, the late afternoon light went to pitch black night. Lightning, thunder, lots of rain, wind, typical thunderstorm. But then I saw a ball appear in mid-air, maybe eight blocks south of me. It floated there for I have no idea how long, seconds. I did see colors on it of white, yellow, blue. Then it exploded with a huge noise. It sounded like a bomb, not a lightning crack, and it shook the house.
I have seen a lot of goofy storms over the years but never a ball of lightning in mid-air that exploded. Over the next few hours, saw three more balls, though much farther south, all of which exploded. After the storm was over, I called the friend who worked for ABC News and found out just what I had seen.
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That's because they weren't paying attention when their leader told them to stay separate from the world's political affairs. Or more likely because they were greedy, power-hungry idiots using religion as a cover for their ambitions.
To many words.
Christian suffices but Organised Religion covers it.
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