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The San Francisco Bay Area has been buffeted by bad weather lately, and as a rare thunder storm rumbled through, photographer Phil McGrew thought to set up his camera and snapped rare sight: Eight bolts of lightning hitting the Bay Bridge.
The San Francisco currency trader, who took up photography two years ago, set up his camera from his office in San Francisco, and set the lens to a long exposure. He wrote on Flickr, "This shot has been on my list since moving to San Francisco. Unfortunately, I've only seen lightning 3 times in the 2 years I've lived here. Tonight, I got lightning in 3 seperate 20 second exposures. This is a single exposure."
The photo shows each of the four towers of the bridge that connects the East Bay with San Francisco lit up with lightning against the murky sky and rain-spattered window.
McGrew told the Daily Mail: "You can count the strikes, the Bay Bridge has four distinct towers and you can see the lightning hitting each tower."
You sure can. The shot, which was trending on Twitter, received over a hundred comments on Flickr. Fans called it "eerily beautiful," and "stunning."
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DARPA is eagerly pursuing the capability of striking any target worldwide with “fire from the heavens”.
March 21, 2012 – OKLAHOMA - It woke up sleepy Tulsans, set-off car alarms and freaked out the family pet. Many people thought it was an earthquake that hit Tulsa at 3:33 this morning. Instead, says National Weather Service Meteorologist Steve Amburn, is was a “Super Bolt.” Amburn says a super bolt is a positively-charged cloud-to-ground stroke of lightning. Computer records indicate a single “
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Engineers in the U.S are hoping to build the world's largest Tesla coil. This would be of interest to scientist Peter Terren who created these huge electric sculptures using a Tesla coil in Australia. The Lightning Foundry is a project based on 20 years of development. Lightning is electricity, but operates very differently from electrical discharges at the human scale. As lightning forms, it breaks through the air up to ten times easier than small-scale electric arcs, using tricks we don’t yet understand. The problem of understanding "lightning initiation" still confounds world experts in the field. However, recent theories and a bizarre experimental accident suggest that laboratory-scale electric arcs start to gain lightning-like abilities once they grow past about 200ft in length. The man behind the project, high voltage engineer Greg Leyh, wants to see how lightning gets so efficient at transmitting electricity..... read all http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/43030-the-lightning-foundry-project
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At the turn of the century, scientist Nikola Tesla developed his Tesla coil: an electrical current generator that he envisioned as a potential power source shooting lightning into the air to be pulled down by energy customers around the world. Almost a century later, artist Eric Orr was commissioned to build a huge sculpture that would throw magnificant lightning bolts. He turned to high-voltage engineer Greg Leyh for help, and the result was the largest Tesla coil in the world - a tower four stories high that generates three million volts of electricity and 40-foot bolts of lightning. So often we think of science and art as being irreconcilable opposites. This program proves the reverse: ELECTRUM is an intriguing opportunity to explore the relationship between technology and art, and meet the people who see beyond the ordinary.Engineers in the U.S are hoping to build the world's largest Tesla coil. This... more
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Monday Aug. 22, 2011 by Virgin Limited Edition shows British entrepreneur's Sir Richard Branson's luxury home, on Necker Island, in the Caribbean, in flames as a fire which ripped through the luxury home. About 20 guests, including Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet and Branson's daughter and 90-year-old grandmother, escaped a fire uninjured.Monday Aug. 22, 2011 by Virgin Limited Edition shows British entrepreneur's Sir... more
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We love Kansas City. [Axel Harvey] makes music and twathorse is a creative project to help show off our town.We love Kansas City. [Axel Harvey] makes music and twathorse is a creative project to... more
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It would have been cool to have Michael C. Hall sitting behind Casey Anthony in the courtroom. I'm pretty sure Karma will kick her ass sooner than later. Lightning strikes a tree near Caylee Anthony's memorial site today. It's a sign.
Casey Anthony Not Guilty?!?!?! ...We'll see about that....It would have been cool to have Michael C. Hall sitting behind Casey Anthony in the... more
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NASA spacecraft offers detailed views of Saturn's Great White Spot
The Great White Spot, which occurs about once every 30 Earth years, is a windy, towering cloud of ammonia and water spewing out super jolts of thunder and lightning. The storm is about 10,000 times stronger than those on Earth.
PHOTO: An image of Saturn taken by NASA spacecraft Cassini shows the Great White Spot in the planet's northern hemisphere. (NASA / July 7, 2011)
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By Daniela Hernandez, Los Angeles Times
July 6, 2011, 6:27 p.m.
Saturn's Great White Spot, a recurring storm on that planet that has intrigued scientists since it was first observed in 1876, is a windy, towering cloud of ammonia and water spewing out super jolts of thunder and lightning. Now astronomers and NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, have captured the most detailed views to date of the phenomenon.
The luminous storm, which may be the gaseous planet's main mechanism for dissipating heat, occurs about once every Saturnian year, the equivalent of about 30 Earth years. The storms, however, do not follow a precise schedule. The latest round, the most intense on record, was first noticed by ground-based professional and amateur astronomers as a bright speck on Saturn's northern hemisphere on Dec. 5, about nine years before schedule. The previous storm occurred in 1990.
Their observations coincided with Cassini's detection of a deluge of radio waves emitted by Saturn. These radio waves are a signature of lightning and can be used as a measure of its strength.
During the days that followed, that small blemish, moving westward about 65 mph, grew to a size nearly equal to the diameter of the Earth. Two months later, the behemoth had blanketed the entire planet, spanning more than 180,000 miles.
"It turned into a very spectacular storm, with so many [lightning flashes] we couldn't resolve individual ones," said Donald Gurnett, a physicist at the University of Iowa and a contributing author of one of two reports published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
This massive eruption of lightning is caused when heat and water vapor rise from deep within Saturn's atmosphere up to its troposphere, the region of the atmosphere where weather occurs. When that water vapor cools and condenses, it releases heat and, under the right conditions, produces lightning.
The lightning on Saturn originates deep inside the planet's atmosphere, where vapors are at higher pressure. That makes the lightning very intense.
The images and measurements gave scientists new insight into the shape of the current Great White Spot. As water vapor and ammonia were pushed to the troposphere by vertical currents, some of the materials were dragged by eastern winds, creating the storm's characteristic "head" and straggling "tail," both of which are visible from Earth.
First author Agustin Sanchez-Lavega, a planetary scientist at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, and his colleagues were able to estimate that the storm's head, where most of the lightning was concentrated, extended about 160 miles below the cloud tops. Because the sun doesn't shine there, this suggests that the planet's internal heat helps the storms to form, the scientists wrote.
Great White Spots are 10 times larger than normal storms on Saturn and are about 10,000 times stronger than those on Earth. They occur seasonally due to changes in how much sunlight reaches Saturn. Scientists still don't fully understand the interplay between solar energy and Saturn's internal stores in generating these storms.Los Angeles Times...
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A complex of severe storms sweeping north to south across Mississippi Monday afternoon killed two people and caused widespread wind damage across parts of the state.
http://exm.nr/jfuGG3A complex of severe storms sweeping north to south across Mississippi Monday afternoon... more
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As the United States approaches what is historically the deadliest month for lightning strikes, the danger produced continues to increase with two killed and several injured by lightning over the last several days.
http://exm.nr/ivkUSUAs the United States approaches what is historically the deadliest month for lightning... more
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Camp Shelby is sending 77 Air Force Cadet personnel to local hospitals in the Hattiesburg area for medical evaluation after being in the area of a lighting strike.
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Unbelievable Shocking 3000ft high Tornado on Water June 1st 2011 New (Raw Video)
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Wednesday's tornadoes across Springfield and 19
other communities have caused extensive damage,
at least 200 injuries and killed 4 people.
Over 300 people have sought shelter relief.
Many residents have lost their homes and buildings
and churches have been damaged and cars are turned
upside down. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to
issue a State of Emergency Wednesday. Patrick has
mobilized up to 1,000 members of the National Guard
to help in search and rescue and debris cleanup.
Donors can designate that they specifically want their money
to go towards the Massachusetts disaster relief efforts.
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Massive EF5 Killer Tornado Birmingham Alabama April 27th Kills 43
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Alfa Mutual Group said t it will not renew
73,000 property insurance policies statewide as it
following the April 27 tornadoes.
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Visit www.givetuscaloosa.com to download forms. Call 205-248-5045.Massive EF5 Killer Tornado Birmingham Alabama April 27th Kills 43
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Massachusetts Tornado June 1st 2011 Shocking New (Raw Video)
Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, about 90 miles west
of Boston 22,000 power outages, the vast majority in Hamden
County,where Springfield is located around 4:30 p.m.
Springfield, the state’s third-largest city, with more than
150,000 residents Gov. Deval Patrick declared a state of
emergency and the National Guard called up about 1,000 troops.
Donors can designate that they specifically want their money
to go towards the Massachusetts disaster relief efforts.
here http://bit.ly/lxFF07Massachusetts Tornado June 1st 2011 Shocking New (Raw Video)
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Springfield Massachusetts Tornado June 1st 2011 Shocking (Raw Video)
Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, about 90 miles west
of Boston 22,000 power outages, the vast majority in Hamden
County,where Springfield is located around 4:30 p.m.
Springfield, the state’s third-largest city, with more than
150,000 residents Gov. Deval Patrick declared a state of
emergency and the National Guard called up about 1,000 troops.
Donors can designate that they specifically want their money
to go towards the Massachusetts disaster relief efforts.
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Amazing. Sure, it looks too good to be true. But it's also too good to look away. The conditions are right for a lightning storm, and this old man has unfortunately gotten caught in it. When a bolt cracks from the sky, he's in the wrong place at the wrong time. But how can one really survive a lightning strike, let alone walk away from it?Amazing. Sure, it looks too good to be true. But it's also too good to look away.... more
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This is an honest to god open letter to Charlie Sheen. If anyone reading this knows how to get it in front of Guru Sheen, I beg of you, please do. I will do anything, ANYthing, to have this make it into the hands of my new hero so that we can hang all night in our aura of epic that only we two truly understand... Seriously, anything...
I've heard a lot of guff lately about the mental state and health of star of stage and screen, one Mr. Charles Sheen. The man has been hounded by questions of his sanity and his sobriety. People think he's lost it, that the man is rocketing down a road of self destruction on his way to utter collapse and personal, professional and physical ruin. People are talking about how sorry they feel for Charlie Sheen.
But, see, you don't get it: Charlie Sheen feels sorry for YOU.
Can you honestly say that you feel sorry for a man who can walk away from a job that pays him two million dollars an episode to play a toned down version of himself and then without batting a fucking eye say that, sure, he'll come back, but now you've gotta pay him three? And know that he means every fucking breath of it. You think that's losing? Charlie Sheen will tell you to your simple little face that that's winning. And I for one believe him. I would be foolish not to.
See, for too long, the exceptional have had to hide their superiority, to be humble and quiet in their personal knowledge of their uniqueness. The special have been forced to pretend that they're just like everyone else to sell the normal people the idea that they could ever be special too. But once in a great while, a special person will throw off the guise of normal, relatable, humble every man and show you exactly how wrong you are to think that you could ever be like them. And that scares the shit out of the general public. They call that person crazy and narcissistic and dangerously addicted to drugs, alcohol and sex. I call those people jealous of seeing someone capable of owning the life that they all secretly wish could be theirs.
You see Charlie, I get it. We're kindred spirits, you and I. In the old days two people such as us would meet on a mountain top and do battle with lightning and magic and the Earth would quake, knowing that it was witnessing the only thing greater than itself and that it's continued existence was predicated entirely upon our whims at that moment. And the people would fear us, as much for what we do as for what we did not do.
But how do I, you may ask? How do I get it? How is it possible for my normal brain to ever claim to understand someone like Charlie Sheen? Someone utterly incomprehensible to those lower life forms? Because I'm not a sad normal brain like the rest of them Charlie. I am, in point of fact, a certified DOUBLE GENIUS. Shit yeah that's what I said. But, certified by who you might ask. By myself of course, because how could I expect any of these normals to even begin to comprehend this?
We're like two super sonic sub marines, tearin' ass through the sky at a thousand miles an hour and people see us and they don't comprehend how something so awesome and impossible could even exist. Then it dawns on them bro, they suddenly see clearly for the first time in their sad existence and see us for the bright bolt of light that we are and through their tears they wonder how they lived so long without knowing something like this could even exist. And it's because they've been told that mediocrity is something to be sought after. A goal to be achieved. Nothing makes me sadder than seeing mediocrity being striven for, except maybe for a plate full of uneaten prostitute.
I understand that what you are putting out now is not anger, but passionate. I didn't get it before. I didn't understand that that was what was boiling over in my own samurai eagle heart. I thought I was angry, but that wasn't it. If I was angry at anything it was with the world for not living up to our own personally standards. But now I understand that this pit of poison tipped rat vampires is only here to keep me from flying like the rocket propelled, birthday cake scented power monkey that I truly am!
You see, I woke up this morning with a helicopter hovering over my building. I go outside for my morning jog, look up in the sky and give the pilot the high sign and when I get back, it's fuckin' gone. Coincidence? There's no such thing as coincidence man. They were there to make sure I was still alive, that's it. Because the world needs me. I can't even say any of my ideas out loud anymore bro, because when I do, the next day somebody's making a million dollars on the easy little shit I say before my morning tea. So now I keep my genius locked away in a box labeled "not genius" and they're not looking there because really, what that comes from me could ever not be genius, right? See it doesn't make sense, and that's what I'm counting on!
I want to hang with you Charlie. Beyond the fire and lightning that our meeting would call down from the halls of the gods of exceptionalism, I'm also selfishly thinking of my own self preservation. When I would put on my medical forms that my blood type was "Tiger Positive" the doctors would look at me with their stupid little questions in their eyes. But now I know that if something were ever to happen to me that there's someone I can go to for a blood transfusion who would be able to handle it without my own blood kicking back into their body and devouring what was left of their unused soul. But until it becomes imperative for our unique physiology to preserve the last of our kind, we can just get together some Tuesday afternoon, each draw a little blood and have it fight, we can put that shit on Pay Per View and solve world hunger brother.
In closing, I want to make sure you know that I am absolutely serious right now when I say that if this somehow gets back to you Charlie, I want to hang with you. I want to finally feel free around someone who gets it! Give me a call Charlie, let's be besties, because I am not mocking you, I get you, more than anyone else, I recognize your specialness and I fucking love it bro.
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Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth -- a phenomenon never seen before.
:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110111132721.htmScientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of... more
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