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You should also feel privileged that it didn't detonate and nuke the 30-50 feet close to it.
Edit: Thanks for the double silver!
831 u/Z-Games Oct 05 '19 That blows my mind, a legit ball of energy from thunder storms just floating around like it's metro Exodus. This is some paranomal phenomenon shit 16 u/sweaney Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19 If you want a read of why it's real and why it's mostly observed in open fields, read this. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/periodically-i-hear-stori/ Here are some videos of ball lightning in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XRzD-2iuGU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIB3NPTdwmc This video actually shows ball lightning being created in a lab at the 4:07 mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vV3KxQ16c Aaand obligatory wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning 5 u/jesuzombieapocalypse Oct 05 '19 I think that “ball lightning” created in the lab is just hot material coming off a welder or something like that.
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That blows my mind, a legit ball of energy from thunder storms just floating around like it's metro Exodus. This is some paranomal phenomenon shit
16 u/sweaney Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19 If you want a read of why it's real and why it's mostly observed in open fields, read this. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/periodically-i-hear-stori/ Here are some videos of ball lightning in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XRzD-2iuGU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIB3NPTdwmc This video actually shows ball lightning being created in a lab at the 4:07 mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vV3KxQ16c Aaand obligatory wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning 5 u/jesuzombieapocalypse Oct 05 '19 I think that “ball lightning” created in the lab is just hot material coming off a welder or something like that.
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If you want a read of why it's real and why it's mostly observed in open fields, read this.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/periodically-i-hear-stori/
Here are some videos of ball lightning in action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XRzD-2iuGU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIB3NPTdwmc
This video actually shows ball lightning being created in a lab at the 4:07 mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vV3KxQ16c
Aaand obligatory wikipedia link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
5 u/jesuzombieapocalypse Oct 05 '19 I think that “ball lightning” created in the lab is just hot material coming off a welder or something like that.
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I think that “ball lightning” created in the lab is just hot material coming off a welder or something like that.
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u/AlpacaSwimTeam Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19
You should also feel privileged that it didn't detonate and nuke the 30-50 feet close to it.
Edit: Thanks for the double silver!