Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning 'sprite' exposes one of nature's least understood phenomena

BertramDitore , 10 months ago

Here’s a link to the three full-sized photos in case anyone else was annoyed that an article describing an ultra-detailed photo only included low-res thumbnails.

MaggiWuerze , 10 months ago

Thanks. I never understood why it seems to be too hard to actually show what your writing about.

KTVX94 , 10 months ago

I’m playing Armored Core 6 rn and these give me PTSD flashbacks of the bosses’ Coral weapons

Nighed , 10 months ago

I did a school report on lightning 20(!) Years ago and included these. It’s strange we seem to know little more about them other than having better photos now.

fubo , 10 months ago

We’re so used to having the atmosphere just hang out and just be there for breathing.

Yeah, it turns out that molecules have other shit to do in this solar system, even if they’re also being part of our atmosphere. They get charged up sometimes, from the sun’s energy or just from moving around each other, and they do weird stuff like auroras or lightning sprites.

AbidanYre , 10 months ago

Right, so…

Ghost aliens.

SpaceNoodle , 10 months ago

Sub Rosa

RoyalEngineering , 10 months ago

Shut up, Wesley.

Chickenstalker , 10 months ago

Ghost ayyliums from Atlantis who built the pyramids and butt probed men (totally not my fetish).

SkaveRat , 10 months ago

Hey it’s me, your atlantis ghost

sebinspace , 10 months ago

Even if they are just “weird stuff”, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t aim to understand them and make them less weird