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.
  • Big T@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Scary that if true some of this stuff is true, it could lead to the weaponization of lightning.

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