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Tags: Study of Lightning, Weaponized Lightning, Weather Manipulation, Types of Civilizations, Geo-Engineering, NASA, Department of Defense
I know that Americans especially have a hard time imagining that our leaders could really be horribly evil creatures out to destroy us. Wow, that is a hard pill to swallow. But, hiding our heads and hoping it all goes away will not help your children and grand children survive, let alone have a future. You must listen to what these people say. They keep telling you how evil they are… but you just slough it off. PAY ATTENTION!!
These “scientists” are hellbound to push the limits. They are seeking POWER and CONTROL. They really don’t care how they get it. They don’t care from whom they get it. They don’t care what it costs or how many lives will be destroyed.
They not only want to control us, they want to control EVERYTHING! They want the power of the gods! Control of all energy, all life. They want the power of FIRE and LIGHTNING!
Michio Kaku
“A Type-1 civilization has harnessed its planetary power. They control earthquakes, the weather, volcanoes, they have cities on the ocean, anything planetary – they control “
Richard Seed
“We are going to become Gods period. If you don’t like it, get off. But, if you are going to interfere with me becoming God, we’re gonna have big trouble. We will have warfare. The only way you can prevent me in this is to kill me, you kill me, I will kill you.
Elon Musk
“I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence. Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like yeah he’s sure he can control the demon. Didn’t work out.”
Sergio Bertolucci, director for research : scientific computing at CERN, regarding dimensional doorways they are opening:
“Out of this door might come something, or we might send something through it.”[i]
TO play with fire To do something that risks causing one harm, damage, or misfortune; to do something dangerous. They’re playing with fire if they think they can get away with dodging these corporate taxes. Jen swears she’s being safe when she experiments with drugs, but I think she’s playing with fire.
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THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THESE FOLKS ARE DOING!! LITERALLY PLAYING WITH FIRE AT OUR EXPENSE!
I came across this video on one of my posts regarding the Paradise Fires. It is very much related to this article so I decided to add it. Take a look at the POWER of the LASER DIRECTED ENERGY BEAM.
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I happened to be watching a video when the host made a statement that hit me. I have captured just that portion of his video below. Listen
Caught On Camera! Prehistoric Creature Pterodactyl Escapes Through Portal Caused By Lightning Strike
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Remember, Satan/LUCIFER is the Prince of the POWER OF THE AIR. Anything that cuts through the air affects the spiritual realm. That is the power of prayer and praise and worship. In spiritual warfare, there is a purpose in clapping our hands. CLAPPING and SLAPPING A FLAG/BANNER in the AIR impacts the spiritual realm and brings power to your words/intent.
I can’t tell you how I learned that right now, this post is already too long. Suffice it to say that GOD taught about BANNERS and SPIRITUAL WAREFARE.
So when I heard the guy say that THUNDER was the CLAP of the air closing back what was sliced by the lightning it got my attention. It motivated me to create this post.
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TESLA – MASTER OF LIGHTNING [DOCUMENTARY 2000]
A unique factual depiction of Nikola Tesla’s life from his early adulthood to his eventual arrival to America in 1886, examining his relationships and interactions with some of history’s most important and controversial people including Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, Charles “Lucky” Luciano, J.P. Morgan, Mark Twain, J. Edgar Hoover, and Heinrich Himmler of the Nazi regime. The story reveals the tragic secret that was behind Tesla’s relentless drive to invent the most dangerous device to mankind and many facts and truths not previously known such as Tesla’s romantic life which was thought to be none existent which is not true and reveals many of Tesla inventions that were suppressed from the world for over half a century and only now are widely used. The film goes into overdrive action with the introduction of fictional character “John Watt” from the future in 2013. John is a 21-year-old computer sciences student who by fate comes upon Tesla’s greatest invention kept secret from the world, the Time Radio. Through this remarkable invention, John is able to communicate with Tesla in the past and experience a world of mystery, intrigue and conspiracy, a world that is shaping the future, John’s present. The radio emits a signal like none other in world and is soon picked up by NSA radio scanners which set off alarms as the signals are highly encrypted and unbreakable. Suspecting that a sophisticated terrorist group is behind the encrypted signals the NSA joins forces with the FBI to locate the source but what the NSA doesn’t know is that certain people in the FBI know more about the signals then they are willing to share. John and his girlfriend Sara narrowly escape capture, realizing how the radio could be used to contact the past to change the future and unable to bring himself to destroy the radio John and Sara find themselves on the run with the radio from the NSA and FBI all while in contact with Tesla in the past.
Storms Create Thunder, Lightning… Antimatter? | TIME.com
The Origin of Life | American Scientist
Controlling The Path Of Lightning | Science 2.0
By News Staff | June 23rd 2015 03:25 PM
Recent scientific and technical advances, as well as the ingenuity of Professor Morandotti’s team (particularly researcher Matteo Clerici, a postdoctoral fellow with the research group at the time of the experiments), set the stage for this spectacular demonstration, where we see an electric charge follow a smooth path along a straight or parabolic trajectory.
Experimental figures show how different shaped lasers give discharges distinct properties and trajectories. By combining beams, it is even possible to achieve an S-shaped trajectory, with all other kinds of trajectory achievable in principle.
In his bold quest for knowledge, Professor Morandotti wanted to determine whether the self-healing properties of certain shapes of laser beams (such as Airy and Bessel beams) could be put to use in these new experiments. This attribute means that a laser beam whose intensity peak is blocked by an obstacle can reconstruct itself once past the object.
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Scientists find ‘superbolts’ flashing 1 000 brighter than normal lightning
Posted by Julie Celestial on (7 months ago)
Category: Research
In this paper, the researchers studied 12 years of data from another satellite and counted lightning strikes as superbolts if they generated 100 gigawatts of power.
The papers addressed an ongoing debate among researchers about how these lightning flashes originate, and propose that superbolts usually result from rare, positively charged cloud-to-ground events, rather than the more usual negatively charged cloud-to-ground events characteristic of typical lightning.
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Weather Control and Weather Warfare
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Investigating Electricity in the Sky Lightning Control Using Small Rockets with thin, grounded wire…
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December 2012 – Triggering lightning experiments by launching a small rocket trailing a thin wire toward a charged cloud overhead have been conducted since the … read the full PDF
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Measurement and analysis of ground-level electric fields and wire-base …
Aug 22, 2013 · Lightning is triggered using the rocket-and-wire technique with supporting measurements of channel-base current, …
Observations of the initial stage of a rocket‐and‐wire‐triggered …
Apr 27, 2017 · Classical rocket-and-wire-triggered lightning is carried out by launching a small rocket trailing a grounded metal wire …
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Laser-guided lightning isn’t the only manmade way to create lightning.
- Researchers use rockets to create and study lightning by launching them into stormy skies to establish conductive pathways between the earth and clouds.
- This method allows scientists to measure lightning under relatively controlled conditions, improving our understanding of the complex electrical behavior leading up to a lightning strike.
- A recently developed rocket design offers a new way to induce lightning.
The rocket
Rockets rising up into stormy weather are a natural target for lightning. Apollo 12 was struck twice just after liftoff from the pad.
But bringing down bolts from the heavens doesn’t require a rocket as big as Apollo. To come within striking distance of the storm, a rocket need only climb a few hundred meters—about 1,000 feet—so it can be small and simple. The rocket, shorter than a person, trails a thin copper wire connecting back to the ground, which creates a conductive pathway for electrical charge to travel between earth and sky. The electrical current in the cable can be continuously measured to observe the electrical phenomena leading up to the first discharge.
A patented new rocket design eschews the copper wire and chemically creates the lightning path. The rocket fuel is doped with small amounts of salt. Sodium chloride, calcium chloride, or cesium chloride is pulled through the motor, heated, and broken into charged ion components spewed out in the exhaust. The positively charged Cs, Ca, or Na atoms cool and bond with water molecules in the air, forming saltwater droplets. These droplets are far more electrically conductive than freshwater droplets, leaving a high-conductivity trail in the rocket’s wake. READ THE FULL ARICLE
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QUANTA MAGAZINE X POST: To trigger lightning, researchers fire a small rocket with a thing, grounded metal wire into a charged thundercloud.
Link to X post: https://x.com/QuantaMagazine/status/2052855147223556558/video/1 
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Solar wind to lightning strike link discovered – Watts Up …
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Scientists have discovered new evidence to suggest that lightning on Earth is triggered not only by cosmic rays from space, but also by energetic particles from the Sun. Lightning in clouds image from the International Space Station, captured July 21, 2013 by astronaut Karen Nyberg, shows an early-morning storm lighting up the clouds over …From the Institute of Physics: High-speed solar winds increase lightning strikes on Earth
“Cosmic rays, tiny particles from across the Universe accelerated to close to the speed of light by exploding stars, have been thought to play a part in thundery weather down on Earth, but our work provides new evidence that similar, if lower energy, particles created by our own Sun also affect lightning.
The solar wind consists of a constant stream of energetic particles—mainly electrons and protons—that are propelled from the Sun’s atmosphere at around a million miles per hour. The streams of particles can vary in density, temperature and speed and sweep past Earth every 27 days or so, in line with the time it takes the Sun to make one complete rotation relative to the Earth.
The Earth’s magnetic field provides a sturdy defence against the solar wind, deflecting the energetic particles around the planet; however, if a fast solar stream catches up with a slow solar stream, it generates an enhancement in both the material and the associated magnetic field.
In these instances, the energetic particles can have sufficient energies to penetrate down into the cloud-forming regions of the Earth’s atmosphere and subsequently affect the weather that we experience.
“We propose that these particles, while not having sufficient energies to reach the ground and be detected there, nevertheless electrify the atmosphere as they collide with it, altering the electrical properties of the air and thus influencing the rate or intensity at which lightning occurs,” said Dr Scott.
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Data from the International Space Station confirms lightning is insane
Science, 2019. DOI: 10.1126/science.aax3872 (About DOIs).
Lightning is such a common phenomenon that people often overlook just how powerful it is (provided it doesn’t hit you, obviously). But over the past decade, research has gradually revealed just how extreme lightning is. This everyday phenomenon is powerful enough to produce antimatter and transform atoms, leaving a radioactive cloud in its wake. Understanding how all of this happens, however, is a real challenge, given just how quickly multiple high-energy events take place.
Now, researchers have used an instrument attached to the International Space Station to track the physical processes that are triggered by a lightning strike. The work tracks how energy spreads out from the site of a lightning bolt into the ionosphere via an electromagnetic pulse.
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The ionosphere is the ionized layer of Earth’s upper atmosphere, extending roughly from 60 km to 1,000 km above the surface Wikipedia+1. It is created when solar ultraviolet and X-ray radiation knock electrons off atoms, producing a plasma of free electrons and ions. This ionization gives the layer its electrical conductivity and refractive properties, which directly influence how radio and satellite signals travel. How It Impacts Communications1. Refraction and Skywave Propagation 2. Frequency Dependence
3. Solar Activity and Disturbances 4. Satellite and GNSS Effects 5. Time of Day and Seasonal Variations Practical Implications
In short, the ionosphere is both a tool for long-range radio communication and a challenge for satellite-based systems, making it a critical factor in telecommunications reliability Wikipedia+2. |
The work relies on a piece of hardware called the Atmosphere–Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM), an ESA-built instrument attached to its lab module on the International Space Station. It’s an impressive piece of hardware, tying together two X-ray/gamma-ray detectors, three UV detectors, two optical-wavelength light meters, and two high-speed cameras.
These features are needed to understand lightning, where a lot goes on very rapidly as a bolt of lightning forms and propagates. The environment in which a lightning bolt forms typically has some loose electrons, and these get rapidly accelerated to relativistic speeds by the intense electrical fields. As these electrons slow back down or get forced to travel on curved paths, they lose energy in the form of bremsstrahlung radiation. The amount of energy being lost is so large that some of it is emitted in the form of the highest-energy category of photons, gamma-rays.
That radiation is responsible for a couple of the downstream effects mentioned above. If the gamma rays strike an atom’s nucleus, they can transform some of the mundane atom’s subatomic particles, converting the atom into a radioactive isotope. In addition, if the photons become concentrated enough, they can spontaneously form particle/antiparticle pairs, which is why antimatter has been detected in the wake of lightning bursts.
While all that’s going on, there are often bursts of light that are not directly connected to the lightning bolt itself. Termed sprites, jets, and elves, these phenomena are erratic and poorly understood, but we do know they occur above the clouds where the bolt actually forms.
To piece together how all this happens, we need a huge amount of imaging at multiple wavelengths and with exquisite timing. The details we can get from the ground, from cloud level, and from outer space should all provide perspectives on where specific events take place. Different phenomena occur at different wavelengths, which is why we need a broad range of sensors. And tracking the timing can help us determine which events may cause later phenomena. From its perch on the International Space Station, ASIM provides a low-space perspective on these events.
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Earth’s Science – A ‘blue bang’ sparks an unusual type of lightning in the upper atmosphere...
After learning more about Lightning… I am getting an even clearer picture of what Scientists are up to with the stuff that they are putting up into our atmosphere and beyond. Check out these articles:
It’s All SMOKE AND MIRRORS!!!
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Heat, lightning, drought create perfect storm for record California Fires...
What’s driving our record fire year? A combination of heat, freak lighting, drought and overgrown forests, experts say.
A record heat wave tested the state’s electricity grid with near blackouts in recent days. Dry, dangerously windy conditions led PG&E on Tuesday to preemptively shut off 172,000 customers in 22 counties in the North Bay and Sierra Nevada until Wednesday to reduce the risk of downed power lines sparking more fires.
“This is a challenging year,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday. “It is historic in terms of magnitude, scope and consequence.”
Lightning
In mid-August, a series of freak summer storms blasted California with more than 14,000 lightning strikes and almost no rain. More than one-third of all the acres that have burned this year came from that lightning.
“I’ve never seen a lightning storm come in and have a bull’s-eye on the greater Bay Area and beyond. It’s extraordinarily rare,” said Scott Stephens, a fire scientist at the S of California at Berkeley. “It overwhelms all the fire management agencies we have.”
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Study: How Sun influences lightning and thunder activity on earth …
Japanese researchers have taken the first steps to understand how the Sun’s rotational cycle influences lightning activity on Earth. The answers were found in diaries dating back to the 1700s. “It is well known that long-term – centennial to millennial-scale – variations of solar activity influences terrestrial climate,” said Hiroko Miyahara …
Miyahara referred to the 27-day solar rotational period, which is the average time it takes for the Sun to rotate on its axis. Since the Sun consists of plasma, the equator rotates quicker than its poles. When areas of high activity, such as sunspots, face Earth, there’s an increase in ultraviolet rays and decrease in energetic particles showering the atmosphere. So, we see this has a lot to do with the waves of all types and frequencies they keep shooting up into the atmosphere, as well as their experiments with artificial suns, plasma, and radiation. All parts of their efforts to control our weather to control us.
“Thunderstorm and cloud activities sometimes show a 27-day period, and this has long been studied to uncover a possible important link to solar rotation,” study authors said.
“Because the 27-day variations in the solar forcing parameters such as solar ultraviolet and galactic cosmic rays become more prominent when the solar activity is high, it is expected that the signal of the 27-day period in meteorological phenomena may wax and wane according to the changes in the solar activity level.”
“In this study, we examine in detail the intensity variations in the signal of the 27-day solar rotational period in thunder and lightning activity from the 18th to the 19th centuries based on 150-year-long records found in old diaries kept in Japan and discuss their relationship with the solar activity levels. Such long records enable us to examine the signals of solar rotation at both high and low solar activity levels.” Whoo hoo- data, data, data. Feed that AI monster.
The researchers examined the records for mentions of thunder and lightning events between May and September, when the influence from the cold Siberian air mass is weak in Japan and found peaks of lightning and thunder activity occurs every 24 to 31 days, the same time window it takes the sunspots to rotate completely.
It’s a strong signal, especially when the yearly-average number of sunspots is high.
“We found that the signal of the solar rotational period in the thunder and lightning activity increases as the solar activity increases. We also discuss the possibility of the impact of the long-term climatological conditions on the signals of the 27-day period in thunder/lightning activities.”
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Where in the World Does Lightning Strike the Most?
In a new study using 16 years of satellite data, NASA reveals that the number one spot gets almost 300 thunderstorms per year; these other hotspots are wild as well.
“We can now observe lightning flash rate density in very fine detail on a global scale,” says Richard Blakeslee, LIS project scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. “Better understanding of lightning activity around the world enables policy makers, government agencies and other stakeholders to make more informed decisions related to weather and climate.
We didn’t need NASA to tell us that Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, pictured above, wins the prize for being the place on the planet riddled with the most lightning. We’ve written about this playground for Zeus before, and how could any other spot top it? Located along the Andes Mountains, it is the largest lake in South America and is situated in such a way that mountain breezes tangle with warm lake air to create a perfect storm, so to speak, of storms – an enduring deep convection that results in 297 thunderstorms a year. So legendary is this place of wild sky that sailors once used it for help in navigation; the storms are variously known as Catatumbo lightning, the Never-Ending Storm, or the Lighthouse of Catatumbo.
(So we see here that they are admitting to at least 20 years to date of studying Lightning where and when it hits, how it is formed, how it is directed and how to create it.)
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California fires: This is how a lightning storm can start a fire
Doyle RiceKarl GellesJennifer Borresen
Aug. 21, 2020Updated Aug. 23, 2020, 4:42 p.m. ET
Aren’t they so clever? Sitting in their ivory towers plotting out just exactly how to bring about horrible disasters designed to kill thousands to millions of people. I am sure they are so proud as they watch the plans lived out in real time. SICK… THEY ARE SICK. It is only by the grace of God that more people have not already perished. However, losing everything you own it pretty devastating.
Hundreds of wildfires are burning in California, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate. Many of the blazes were sparked by an unprecedented lightning siege of nearly 12,000 strikes over several days. This volatile situation was set up over months, like dominoes.
Vegetation growth in California results from spring rainstorms, creating a bed of fuel for potential wildfires.
Over the following months, persistent heat and low humidity make the vegetation dry and crunchy.
Humid air aloft feeds thunderstorms. Dry air below causes the rain to evaporate before reaching the ground in a phenomenon known as virga. Lightning from these storms can spark wildfires.
Aggressive firefighting has helped extinguish many fires. More than 10,000 firefighters are battling numerous fires across all jurisdictions.
The largest fire listed on Cal Fire’s website Friday afternoon is a blaze named the SCU Lightning Complex Fire, which is made up of 20 separate fires burning near San Jose. The fire had ravaged more than 359 square miles and is 10% contained, threatening more than 6,200 structures as of Friday evening, according to the SCU branch of Cal Fire.
The LNU Lightning Complex Fire has burned a total of 342 square miles and was 7% contained Friday, according to officials.
After a long, dry summer, it takes only one spark to bring on a flaming disaster.
Colorado wildfires: lightning poses threat to starting new fires
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Geologists have found lightning bolts alter the atomic structure of rocks
Photo Above: At a rock outcropping in southern France, a jagged fracture runs along the granite. The surface in and around the crevice is discolored black, as if wet or covered in algae. But, according to a new paper coauthored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Reto Gieré, the real explanation for the rock’s unusual features is more dramatic: a powerful bolt of lightning.
Using extremely high-resolution microscopy, Gieré, professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Science in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, and his coauthors found that not only had the lightning melted the rock’s surface, resulting in a distinctive black “glaze,” but had transferred enough pressure to deform a thin layer of quartz crystals beneath the surface, resulting in distinct atomic-level structures called shock lamellae.
Prior to this study, the only natural events known to create this type of lamellae were meteorite impacts.
“I think the most exciting thing about this study is just to see what lightning can do,” Gieré said. “To see that lightning literally melts the surface of a rock and changes crystal structures, to me, is fascinating.”
Gieré said the finding serves as a reminder to geologists not to rush to interpret shock lamellae as indicators of a meteorite strike. “Most geologists are careful; they don’t just use one observation,” he said, “But this is a good reminder to always use multiple observations to draw big conclusions, that there are multiple mechanisms that can result in a similar effect.”
The team further studied the samples using a transmission electron microscope, which allows users to examine specimens at the atomic level.
THE ARCTIC ISN’T doing so hot. That’s because it is, in fact, too hot. It’s warming at least twice as fast as the rest of the planet, which is setting off vicious feedback loops that accelerate change. Ice, for instance, is more reflective than soil, so when it melts, the region absorbs more solar energy. More dark vegetation is growing in northern lands, absorbing still more of the sun’s heat. And when permafrost thaws, it releases gobs of greenhouse gases, which further warm the climate.
The Arctic has gone so bizarro that lightning—a warm-weather phenomenon most common in the tropics—is now striking near the North Pole. And according to new modeling, the electrical bombardment of the region will only get worse. By the end of the century, the number of lightning strikes across the Arctic could more than double, which may initiate a shocking cascade of knock-on effects—namely, more wildfires and more warming. “The Arctic is a rapidly changing place, and this is an aspect of the transformation that I’m not sure has gotten a whole lot of attention, but it’s actually really consequential,” says UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain, who wasn’t involved in the research. (You must ask yourself, WHY? Why suddenly all these changes? Things we NEVER saw before in thousands of years.)
To make thunderstorms you need a lot of heat. When the sun warms up the land, hot air and moisture rise in the atmosphere. Simultaneously, cold air in the system sinks. This creates a swirling mass known as a deep convective cloud, which in turn creates electrical charges that grow into lightning. (Do you not understand that they are deliberately heating up our atmosphere. Electromagnetic waves shot into the air, fake suns in multiple nations, fake clouds to hold in the heat.. Seriously, WAKE UP)
WE HAVE SEEN THE EXPLOSION OF BOTH LIGHTNING AND WILDFIRES SINCE 2020. WILDFIRES ARE SEEN ALL ACROSS THE NATION – 24-25-26 ESPECIALLY!
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Scientists think they’ve solved the mystery of how volcanic lightning forms
Apr 13, 2016April 13, 2016 at 7:33 p.m. UTC. Lightning in volcanic eruptions has been somewhat of a mystery until now. It’s not that scientists don’t know how lightning forms — charge separation
Lightning and lava. Chile volcano violently explodes in electric storm
Could lightning be responsible for the origin of life on Earth? According to a new study published by researchers at Yale and the University of Leeds, yes.
In their study, published today in the journal Nature Communications, researchers contend that over billions of years, up to a quintillion lightning strikes is what unlocked usable phosphorus and ultimately sparked the creation of life on planet Earth.
“This work helps us understand how life may have formed on Earth and how it could still be forming on other, Earth-like planets,” said lead author Benjamin Hess, a graduate student in Yale’s Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, in a press release issued today by Yale.
Throughout history, theologians, philosophers, and scientists have all applied their respective tradecrafts to explain how life could have suddenly emerged billions of years ago on such an inhospitable early Earth.
Since the 1980s, the popular scientific view is that life erupted during a hypothetical “RNA world” stage in evolutionary history. Under this theory, scientists propose self-replicating RNA molecules set the stage for the evolution of DNA and proteins, which produced the necessary chemical reactions for the development of life.
Recently, The Debrief published a study conducted by a team of American and Japanese scientists who announced they had discovered an organic molecule critical to the development of life within meteorite samples. These results give credence to the panspermia theory or the hypothesis that the building blocks for life on Earth have extraterrestrial origins.
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Scientists Say Laser Device Can Make Lightning Strike targets…
An international team of researchers says that small lasers could be used to guide lightning strikes — much like Thor’s legendary hammer Mjölnir.
“It turns out that to deliver particles, you do not need high-intensity lasers, even low intensity like your laser pointer will be already enough,” Andrey Miroshnichenko, a researcher at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia, told Agence France Presse of the work.
The team says it’s already tested the concept in labs using devices known as hollow lasers, which in effect create a pipe of light. These lasers can short circuit storm clouds and trigger lightning strikes by heating micro-particles in the air.
(Well, Jimeny Pete…BATMAN… If that is true, don’t you think that all the super High Powered Electro Magnetic Beams and High Powered Lasers they have been shooting into our atmosphere is OVERKILL?? Not to mention the NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVES.)
Laser Pointers
High-powered lasers made the process not only expensive and hard to predict, but dangerous as well. (GEE, YOU THINK??) But according to new research by the team, as detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature Communications last month, the idea might work just as well using low intensity laser pointers.
Through “the use of a laser beam of a few hundred milliwatts of power,” the “discharge threshold” of electrical charges in the air could be decreased by 30 percent, the team write in their paper, allowing them to guide the lightning “along a predetermined path in the air.”
“We can imagine a future where this technology may induce electrical discharge from passing lightning, helping to guide it to safe targets and reduce the risk of catastrophic fires,” co-researcher Vladlen Shvedov from the Australian National University told AFP. (I contend that they have known this for some time and have been using the power to CAUSE the weather phenomenon and wild fires rather than to prevent them. Now, when they have destroyed everything and we are at their mercy, now they want us to see them as our heroes, saving the planet and mankind. BULLSHIT!)
Or you could use it to smite your enemies. Just saying. (Well, we know that they have already weaponized every kind of power they can.)
READ MORE: Laser-guided lightning may help prevent wildfires [AFP]
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To catch a lightning bolt | Laser Focus World
(a terra watt is a TRILLION WATS)
Jun 8th, 2021
Now it’s 2021, and I’ve come across a follow-up project: a team of scientists build a laser to catch a lightning bolt. The ultrashort-pulsed laser is steered in the sky, builds a plasma channel, and that should guide the flash to a huge telecom antenna on the Swiss mountain Säntis.
The scientific leader of the project is Jean-Pierre Wolf, a professor from Geneva University and the former CEO of Elight, which was the startup that built a commercial weather lidar in the early 1990s. While he had more than 30 years of experience in atmospheric laser research, it took a laboratory accident in Michigan in 1996 to set him off onto the filament idea. (So he had 30 years of experience in laser research befor 1996) There, in the lab of Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland, a mirror was broken and leaked intense short-pulsed laser radiation. (Please see my articles on our current telescopes) Surprisingly, this laser beam made a kind of filament in air. It was a plasma, but not limited to a focal point. They played around and created a longer filament. Then, they went out on the floor—they could tweak the laser to create a filament as long as the whole floor, which was almost 100 ft., as the legend says. At that time, they did not send it outside.
There were others who tried that—for example, in the French-German project Teramobile in 2008. They managed to trigger electrical activity in thunderclouds, but they did not succeed completely, as their plasma channel did not live long enough for “real” lightning bolt guiding. An American team from the University of Arizona (UA; Tucson, AZ) and the University of Central Florida (UCF; Orlando, FL) tried it in 2014 with a femtosecond pulse followed by a nanosecond pulse. They all had great results on a scale of a few meters in a laboratory setting, but not in free nature. A lightning bolt needs milliseconds to build up on a scale of hundreds of meters, as Jean-Pierre Wolf told me. And that has not been established—yet.
It takes a big laser to catch a lightning bolt
In 2017, the European Union granted almost €4 million to build and test a laser to act as a lightning rod. This time, they wanted to have both the high intensity of a terawatt laser and the efficient energy deposition in the plasma channel through a high average power. German laser manufacturer Trumpf (in fact Trumpf Scientific, their branch for research projects) took over the construction of the required laser. The laser delivers 720 mJ pulses at a repetition rate of 1 kHz. The pulses are in the picosecond region, creating intensities at the terawatt level in the focus.
Most pieces of the huge laser system have already been transported to the top of mount Säntis with a funicular—just the telescope waits for helicopter transport, which has been circumvented by bad weather so far. The laser will be mounted on the eighth floor of the radom building beside the TV tower and ignite the plasma filament on top of the antenna’s tip.
Experiments are scheduled for summer 2021. Will they catch a lightning bolt? Jean-Pierre Wolf said at a recent press conference, “The atmosphere is always quite different from what we have in the lab” and “we will learn a lot about lightning mechanisms.” But he is optimistic that after 25 years of attempts, it will work this time. They just have to wait for a thunderstorm. Statistically, there are more than 100 thunderstorms on mount Säntis per year.
Clearing the sky
Laser lightning research has been funded for more than 25 years. In Europe, there were grants from German, French, and European research organizations, and in America it was a Department of Defense grant. Within the new Laser Lightning Rod project, there are seven participants, including Airbus and the space company ArianeGroup. That points to expectations from the aerospace industry. As a rule of thumb, a lightning rod can protect an area with a diameter of its height. So, a laser lightning rod 1000 m high could protect a rocket launch site or the approach path of an airport, one might think. But Wolf thinks further: “Ground to satellite laser communication is of increasing importance. We would try to open them a clear optical channel in a cloud.” It remains an old dream to control a lightning bolt. Now watch the Swiss sky for a very straight flash this summer. If you see it, well, then it has happened.
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Thunderstorms and lightning create nuclear reactions and radiation say scientists
‘I think there is no health risk from this phenomena‘
“Several groups have accumulated signatures of this [phenomenon], such as signals of either neutrons or positrons, which are the products of this reaction.”
Scientists have used observatories and satellites to detect these neutrons, positrons and other particles since the 1980s, but until now it was difficult to confirm they were the product of nuclear reactions.
In pictures: Lightning in the UK
During a thunderstorm in February this year, Professor Enoto and his team detected “intense radiation” from a pair of lightning strikes just off the coast, using equiupment installed at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata.
It was followed by a prolonged gamma-ray line with the same energy signature scientists would expect to see from the positrons and electrons following a nuclear reaction.
And at the very least, it proves that there’s more going on in thunderstorms than scientists originally thought.|
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Study Finds Lightning Helps Cleanse Atmosphere | AccuWeather
Hydroxyl radicals, described as a “chemical scavenger” by Science Direct, are important chemical compounds found in the atmosphere due to the reactive nature with other organic molecules.
Researchers previously understood that lightning could help to clean the atmosphere, but there was not evidence that it could generate compounds like these radicals. And the data showed surprising spikes of up to 1,000 more hydroxyl radicals than the normal value.
“No one has seen that much in the atmosphere from natural processes, ever,” Brune said.
As a result, the study estimates that somewhere between 2% and 16% of the oxidizing, or cleaning that happens naturally in the Earth’s atmosphere, is done by lightning.
Why is this significant? The oxidation process helps to reduce chemicals like carbon monoxide and methane in the atmosphere. These chemicals, known for being greenhouse gases, have been proven to contribute to rising temperatures associated with climate change.
TO READ MORE:Lightning and subvisible discharges produce molecules that clean the atmosphere
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What is Dark Lightning? | IFLScience
Lightning occurs as a result of charge separation in a cloud. When negatively charged electrons build up at the base of a thundercloud, anything it passes over will become positively charged. If the cloud passes over a tall object, like a skyscraper, the electrons will make the jump, creating the pitchfork of light you see streaking across the sky.
Scientists have realized though that the process of creating regular lightning produces sprays of x-rays and gamma rays that are also ejected into the atmosphere. This is what scientists are now calling dark lightning. Though we can’t see dark lightning, it produces some very measurable cascade effects.
To hear more about dark lightning, view NASA’s video about it below:
So is this one of the reasons why scientists try to control lightnings and thunderstorms?
Flashes of lightning that strike around the earth about 50 times every second create low frequency electromagnetic waves that encompass the planet. These waves, dubbed Schumann Resonances, may have an affect on human behavior, think some scientists.
Kept up by the 2,000 or so thunderstorms that batter our planet every moment, the Schumann Resonances can be found in the waves that go up to about 60 miles above in the lower ionosphere part of our atmosphere.
They stay up there thanks to electric conductivity in the ionosphere that features charged ions, separated from neutral gas atoms in the area by solar radiation. This allows the ionosphere to capture electromagnetic waves.
LIGHTNING-MADE WAVES IN EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE LEAK INTO SPACE
What are the Schumann Resonances ?
The Schumann Resonances encircle the Earth, repeating the beat which has been used to study the planet’s electric environment, weather, and seasons. Flowing around our planet, the waves’ crests and troughs align in resonance to amplify the initial signal.
The waves were named after Winfried Otto Schumann, in honor of his seminal work on global resonances in mid-1950s. First measured in the early 1960s, the very low-frequency waves (with the base at 7.83 Hertz) oscillate between greater and lower energy. The frequency 7.83 Hz has been called the Earth’s “heartbeat.” Progressively weaker harmonics have been measured at around 14.3, 20.8, 27.3, and 33.8 Hz.
The resonances fluctuate with variations in the ionosphere, with the intensity of solar radiation playing a major part. At night, for example, that part of the ionosphere becomes thinner.
The world’s lighting hotspots in Asia, Africa, and South America, whose storms are seasonal and affected by whether its night or day, also influence the strength of the resonance.
Right now, the strange humming frequencies seem to accelerate… but nobody knows why…
Do Schumann Resonances impact humans?
These waves have also been studied for their impact on humans. A 2006 study found that the frequencies may be related to different kinds of brain waves.
The researchers described “real time coherence between variations in the Schumann and brain activity spectra within the 6–16 Hz band.”
Authors of a 2016 paper discovered that 238 measurements from 184 individuals over a 3.5 year period “demonstrated unexpected similarities in the spectral patterns and strengths of electromagnetic fields generated by the human brain and the earth-ionospheric cavity.”
The Schumann Resonance of 7.83 Hz has also been linked by some to hypnosis, meditation, and even human growth hormones but there’s less rigorous scientific evidence of those connections at this point.
Can our bodies truly be affected by electromagnetic frequencies generated by incessant lighting strikes?
Certainly some of the speculation ventures into new age science. Some believe a spike in the resonance can influence people and animals, while a reversal may also be possible, where human consciousness can both be impacted by and itself impact the Schumann Resonances.
By this logic, a sudden source of global stress that produces worldwide tension would be able to change the resonances.
Some have even blamed the stress caused by the Schumann Resonances that resulted from the ancient Chicxulub impact event, when a huge asteroid struck Mexico, for the demise of the dinosaurs.
While the imaginative effects of the Schumann Resonances are still up for much more scientific study, the fascination with this unique natural phenomenon continues. [Big Think]
So if they control lightnings, do they then control our behaviors? Now discover the mysterious Taos Hum in New mexico…
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Lightning strikes produce free neutrons, and we’re not sure how.
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Scientists fear surge in supersized bushfires that create their own violent thunderstorms
PyroCB storms are feared by firefighters for the violent and unpredictable conditions they create on the ground.
PyroCBs are able to generate their own lightning strikes, mass downdrafts of air, gusty winds and even hail blackened with soot. The plumes generated from pyroCBs can influence the atmosphere at heights of up to 15km.
Embers still hot enough to start new fires can be shot out of a pyroCB at distances of 30km from the main fire.
As well as creating dangerous weather conditions, Heemstra said pyroCBs prevent the fire service from using aircraft either to take measurements, or to drop water or fire retardant.
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Raging Planet – Lightning | Jacksonville High
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What Is Hot Lightning? These Strikes Are More Likely to Start Wildfires
The company’s goal is to use all of this data to detect the presence of a single phenomenon: something called a continuing current, which is thought to occur in about 11 percent of lightning strikes. Lightning that harbors a continuing current is more likely to start fires and damage homes or equipment.
To understand why, it’s helpful to remember that lightning strikes begin with an imbalance in electrostatic charge between storm clouds and the ground. For reasons that are still not entirely clear to scientists, negatively-charged particles often build up at the bottom of storm clouds, while positively-charged ones gather at the top of clouds and on the surface of the ground below.
This distribution creates an electric field that can mess with the structure of particles suspended in the air around it. The field essentially teases nearby particles apart to produce positive ions and a roving band of electrons. Together, these particles form a kind of ion-electron stew called a plasma, which happens to be an excellent conductor.
Gradually, electrons from this stew begin to move toward the ground in roughly 50-meter segments that are likely steered in part by conductive pockets of air created by dust or other particles. At the last moment, another flow of positively-charged particles rises up from the ground, and the two flows meet in mid-air.
This interaction instantly establishes a channel connecting the clouds and the ground that many other electrons can follow. A lightning strike, then, is the flow of a great many electrons through this channel. As many as a billion trillion electrons can move through it in less than a millisecond, according to one source (note: lightning can also form in other ways not captured by this description).
Typically, all of this is over in (literally) a flash. But some strikes sustain a current for up to a thousand times longer
than average—the aptly-named continuing current. During these strikes, electrons flow for tens of milliseconds longer than in flashes that do not have a continuing current.
Granted, a continuing current is not
as powerful as the flash itself. While a flash might have a peak current of 20,000 amps (averaged from the multiple composite strokes that make up a single flash), a continuing current measures between 100 to 1,000 amps.
But a continuing current lasts much longer—which makes it a highly effective fire starter. “If you have a hot poker and quickly touch an object, it might not do much damage,” explains Said. “But if you hold it there for awhile, it can heat up.”
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Strange Ball Lightning Caught on High-Speed Video
Ball lightning occurs as glowing spheres ranging in size from a golf ball to a very large beach ball (1 to 100 centimeters, or 0.4 inches to 39 inches, in diameter). These fiery orbs can be white, yellow, red, orange, purple or green, and can persist for seconds or even minutes. Ball lightning typically appears during thunderstorms and usually hovers near the ground, drifting over the Earth at a few miles per hour, but it has also been seen on ships and even within airplanes.
Over the centuries, people have reported thousands of sightings of ball lightning. However, these occurrences are rare and unpredictable in nature; as a result, “our knowledge of ball lightning so far is based mostly on accidental, eyewitness reports,” said Eli Jerby, a microwave researcher at Tel Aviv University in Israel, who did not take part in this study. [Countdown: Earth’s Weirdest Lightning]
Chance video
Scientists, including Jerby, have previously recreated ball lightning, or something very much like it, in the lab, results that suggested ball lighting was mostly the result of lightning striking the ground and vaporizing minerals in the soil. Still, it remained uncertain whether natural ball lightning really happened in the way that the experiments suggested.
This latest recording adds valuable new information, even though it happened unintentionally. During field work investigating ordinary lightning in Western China on a summer night in 2012, scientists by chance took a high-speed video of natural ball lightning from a distance of about 3,000 feet (900 meters). The giant orb shed light over an area up to about 16 feet (5 m) in diameter and moved about 19 mph (31 km/h) before dissipating.
The ball lightning was visible for only a scant 1.64 seconds. Nevertheless, this was enough time for the researchers to analyze its light, which is important because
the color of light an object gives off can yield insights on its makeup. Elements and molecules each give off very specific patterns of color when heated that can act very much like fingerprints.
Changing colors
The ball lightning changed from purple to orange to white to red before it faded. The Chinese scientists detected traces of soil elements such as silicon, iron and calcium from the ball lightning. These results may be the first thorough measurements of natural ball lightning, said Jerby.
These findings support the notion that conventional lightning striking the soil generates ball lightning.
“The new results shed light on the ball lightning enigma and provide valuable information about its initiation, evolution and properties,” Jerby told LiveScience’s OurAmazingPlanet.
In the future, “a more comprehensive theory of ball lightning needs to be derived in a manner that incorporates parts of the many independent theories existing in the literature,” Jerby said. In addition, “valid laboratory demonstrations of ball lightning shall be developed, possibly advancing our fireball experiment, in order to demonstrate the main characteristics of the natural ball lightning in the lab.”
The scientists who took video of the ball lightning detailed their findings online Jan. 17 in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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Update 23 January 2016
Ball lightning has now been recorded! Lightning researchers Jianyong Cen, Ping Yuan, and Simin Xue accidentally videotaped ball lightning while doing research on regular lightning on the Qinghai Plateau. The also got a spectrogram of the ball lightning, which showed emission lines from silicon, carbon, and iron. The researchers plan to try to reproduce ball lightning in the lab.
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There’s an eerie and incredibly rare phenomenon witnessed by few that has long puzzled scientists: ball lightning. These flashes, which typically appear in the evenings during thunderstorms and look like small, bright spheres, have gone mostly unexplained aside from some theories. But now, using some of the most mind-bending physics around, physicists think that they’ve recreated ball lightning, in miniature, in the lab, while at the same time observing a different physical phenomenon in its own right for the first time.
What the scientists created is called the Shankar skyrmion, a three-dimensional, tangled, closed, synthetic magnetic field formed in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Bose-Einstein condensates are systems of atoms—in this case, rubidium atoms—near absolute zero. They’re able to demonstrate strange quantum effects on macroscopic scales, and they allow researchers to create otherwise impossible-to-study phenomena, like magnets with only one pole, supersolids, Rydberg polarons, and in this case, strange, knotted magnetic fields. And the authors, whose work appears today in Science Advances, are absolutely sure about what they’ve spotted.
“That’s the great thing about these quantum gases—you can take photos of them and see the details of the structure,” study author Mikko Möttönen, from Aalto University in Finland, told Gizmodo. “We’re absolutely sure it’s the [three-dimensional] skyrmion that we’ve seen.”
Aside from being a beautiful, tangled mess of atoms, the skyrmion quasiparticle is a really neat object because it seems to model the electric and magnetic fields of ball lightning. That was a surprise to the team. “The biggest moment was when we realized we got the same electromagnetic fields as predicted for ball lightning,” said Möttönen. “We didn’t aim for that. But wow.”
There are multiple possible configurations of the skyrmion allowed, so long as they follow two rules: Each magnetic field line is a circle and linked with every other line once, and if you follow circular paths that maintain the same spin direction inside of the skyrmion, the atom will twist twice.
Basically, think of a magnetic field as a list of instructions at every point in space of where a magnetic thing will go, and an electric field as a similar list of where a charged particle will go. The skyrmion isn’t an intrinsic magnetic field, but a synthetic one based on the arrangement of the rubidium atoms that would take any particle on a twisted journey. It has an equally tangled electric field, and the particles clump to form complex structures in the gas.
Other scientists I spoke with were impressed by the research. “It takes a lot of really incredible experimental engineering to be able to create these things,” said Azure Hansen, postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute for Standards and Technology. She was struck by the impressive match between theory and their observations. Bose-Einstein condensates are nearly macroscopic, and these systems expand from tens of micrometers to a hundred micrometers on each side. The scientists took pictures of the skyrmion’s shadows to confirm that it existed.
More research on skyrmions could prove useful for other reasons than just modeling ball lightning, Hansen said. Since you can have lots of different skyrmion configurations so long as they obey the same rules, they’re topological objects. Topological objects are things that could morph into each other through squishing or stretching, while still retaining certain innate properties. Donuts and coffee mugs, for example, are the same topological object in that, if they were both made from clay, you could smush one form into the other and preserve the hole in the center. Because skyrmions stay skyrmions even when you squish and deform them, they could be useful for things like quantum computing, which requires maintaining a coherent quantum state despite jostling from the outside environment.
Ultimately, the discovery itself is exciting. “We knew this was going to be a big result because it’s never been seen before,” said Möttönen, “but then on top, we got this analogy to the ball lightning—which was great.”
But now, using some of the most mind-bending physics around, physicists think that they’ve recreated ball lightning, in miniature, in the lab, while at the same time observing a different …
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What causes lightning and thunder? | NOAA SciJinks
Lightning!
Zap! You just touched a metal doorknob after shuffling your rubber-soled feet across the carpet. Yipes! You’ve been struck by lightning! Well, not really, but it’s the same idea.
Your rubber-soled shoes picked up stray electrons from the carpet. Those electrons built up on your shoes giving them a static charge. (Static means not moving.) Static charges are always “looking” for the first opportunity to “escape,” or discharge. Your contact with a metal doorknob—or car handle or anything that conducts electricity—presents that opportunity and the excess electrons jump at the chance.
What causes lightning?
So, do thunderclouds have rubber shoes? Not exactly, but there is a lot of shuffling going on inside the cloud.
It’s a little more complicated than that, but what results is a cloud with a negatively charged bottom and a positively charged top. These electrical fields become incredibly strong, with the atmosphere acting as an insulator between them in the cloud.
When the strength of the charge overpowers the insulating properties of the atmosphere, Z-Z-Z-ZAP! Lightning happens.
How does the lightning “know” where to discharge—or strike?
The electric field “looks” for a doorknob. Sort of. It looks for the closest and easiest path to release its charge. Often lightning occurs between clouds or inside a cloud.
But the lightning we usually care about most is the lightning that goes from clouds to ground—because that’s us!
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As the storm moves over the ground, the strong negative charge in the cloud attracts positive charges in the ground. These positive charges move up into the tallest objects like trees, telephone poles, and houses. A “stepped leader” of negative charge descends from the cloud seeking out a path toward the ground. Although this phase of a lightning strike is too rapid for human eyes, this slow-motion video shows it happening.
As the negative charge gets close to the ground, a positive charge, called a streamer, reaches up to meet the negative charge. The channels connect and we see the lightning stroke. We may see several strokes using the same path, giving the lightning bolt a flickering appearance, before the electrical discharge is complete.
split image from animated drawing showing lightning descending from cloud and positively charged streamers reaching up from tall objects on the ground
What causes thunder?
In a fraction of a second, lightning heats the air around it to incredible temperatures—as hot as 54,000 °F (30,000 °C). That’s five times hotter than the surface of the Sun!
The heated air expands explosively, creating a shockwave as the surrounding air is rapidly compressed. The air then contracts rapidly as it cools. This creates an initial CRACK sound, followed by rumbles as the column of air continues to vibrate.
If we are watching the sky, we see the lightning before we hear the thunder. That is because light travels much faster than sound waves. We can estimate the distance of the lightning by counting how many seconds it takes until we hear the thunder. It takes approximately 5 seconds for the sound to travel 1 mile. If the thunder follows the lightning almost instantly, you know the lightning is too close for comfort!
What does lightning look like from space?
First Images from GOES-16 Lightning Mapper
Lightning observed by the GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) illuminates the storms developing over southeast Texas on the morning of February 14, 2017.
Lightning is an important part of weather forecasting. The Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument on the GOES-R series satellites can detect lightning activity over nearly the whole Western Hemisphere.
Scientists use data from GOES-R series satellites, along with data from the Lightning Imaging Sensor on NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, to study lightning. This complete picture of lightning at any given time will improve “now-casting” of dangerous thunderstorms, tornadoes, hail, and flash floods.
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Navy Researchers Put Dark Lightning to the SWORD …
Discovered “by accident” by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in 2010, dark lightning is a surprisingly powerful — yet invisible — by-product of thunderstorms in Earth’s atmosphere. Like regular lightning, dark lightning is the result of a natural process of charged particles within storm clouds trying to cancel out opposing charges. Unlike normal lightning, though, dark lightning is invisible to our eyes and doesn’t radiate heat or light — instead, it releases bursts of gamma radiation.
What’s more, these gamma-ray outbursts originate at relatively low altitudes well within the storm clouds themselves. This means that airplane pilots and passengers flying through thunderstorms may be getting exposed to gamma rays from dark lightning, which are energetic enough to pass through the hull of an aircraft… as well as anything or anyone inside it. To find out how such exposure to dark lightning could affect air travelers, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is conducting computer modeling tests using their SoftWare for the Optimization of Radiation Detectors — SWORD, for short.
Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) are extremely intense, sub-millisecond bursts of gamma rays and particle beams of matter and anti-matter. First identified in 1994, they are associated with strong thunderstorms and lightning, although scientists do not fully understand the details of the relationship to lightning. The latest theoretical models of TGFs suggest that the particle accelerator that creates the gamma rays is located deep within the atmosphere, at altitudes between six and ten miles, inside thunderclouds and within reach of civilian and military aircraft.
These models also suggest that the particle beams are intense enough to distort and collapse the electric field within thunderstorms and may, therefore, play an important role in regulating the production of visible lightning. Unlike visible lightning, TGF beams are sufficiently broad — perhaps about half a mile wide at the top of the thunderstorm — that they do not create a hot plasma channel and optical flash; hence the name, “dark lightning.”
SCIENCECASTS: DARK LIGHTNING (NASA Science)
A team of NRL Space Science Division researchers, led by Dr. J. Eric Grove of the High Energy Space Environment (HESE) Branch, is studying the radiation environment in the vicinity of thunderstorms and dark lightning flashes. Using the Calorimeter built by NRL on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope they are measuring the energy content of dark lightning and, for the first time, using gamma rays to geolocate the flashes.
As a next step, Dr. Chul Gwon of the HESE Branch is using NRL’s SoftWare for the Optimization of Radiation Detectors (SWORD) to create the first-ever simulations of a dark lightning flash striking a Boeing 737. He can calculate the radiation dosage to the passengers and crew from these Monte Carlo simulations. Previous estimates have indicated it could be as high as the equivalent of hundreds of chest X-rays, depending on the intensity of the flash and the distance to the source.
(Credit: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
SWORD simulations allow researchers to study in detail the effects of variation in intensity, spectrum, and geometry of the flash. Dr. Grover’s team is now assembling detectors that will be flown on balloons and specialized aircraft into thunderstorms to measure the gamma ray flux in situ. The first balloon flights are scheduled to take place this summer.
Source: NRL News
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Lightning primarily occurs when warm air is mixed with colder air masses, resulting in atmospheric disturbances necessary for polarizing the atmosphere. However, it can also occur during dust storms, forest fires, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and even in the cold of winter, where the lightning is known as thundersnow. Hurricanes typically generate some lightning, mainly in the rainbands as much as 160 kilometres (99 mi) from the center.
The science of lightning is called fulminology, and the fear of lightning is called astraphobia.
(Interesting that fear of Lightning is called “astraphobia” Astra means of or related to the stars. The stars is also a reference to fallen angels, which is also a reference to the “ancient gods”)
Reports by scientists of strange lightning phenomena above storms date back to at least 1886, however it is only in recent years that fuller investigations have been made.
Sprites are now well documented electrical discharges that occur high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm. They appear as luminous reddish-orange neon-like flashes, last longer than normal lower stratospheric discharges (typically around 17 milliseconds), and are usually spawned by discharges of positive lightning between the cloud and the ground.
| This is a type of cloud that scientists are creating with their geo-engineering manipulation of our weather.
A cumulonimbus cloud is a dense, towering storm cloud (abbreviation Cb) that can rise from about 2,000 m up to 16,000 m and is capable of producing heavy rain, hail, lightning, and severe weather such as tornadoes. OverviewCumulonimbus clouds are vertically developed storm clouds formed by powerful updrafts that carry moist air upward through the troposphere. They often evolve from cumulus congestus clouds and may develop an anvil-shaped top when reaching the tropopause. Wikipedia Formation
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Cumulonimbus clouds are the atmosphere’s most powerful storm-producing clouds, extending through all cloud levels and driving many forms of severe weather. |
Before scientists started manipulating our weather, there were only three types of clouds.
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Sprites usually occur in clusters of two or more simultaneous vertical discharges, typically extending from 65 to 75 km (40 to 47 miles) above the earth, with or without less intense filaments reaching above and below. Sprites are preceded by a sprite halo that forms due to heating and ionization less than 1 milisecond before the sprite.
Sprites were first photographed on July 6, 1989, by scientists from the University of Minnesota and named after the mischievous sprites in the plays of Shakespeare. They are caused by the electric field of a lighting stroke – as opposed to the electromagnetic pulse that causes a sprite.
Unveiling the mysterious ‘red sprite’ lightning strikes over the Himalayas PhysOrg – March 18, 2025
Have you ever heard of -or even seen – red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorms. Scientists refer to them as “red sprites,” named for their jellyfish-like appearance and vivid red flashes. Now, imagine witnessing these mesmerizing displays over the world’s highest mountain range – the Himalayas.
Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning ‘sprite’ exposes one of nature’s least understood phenomena Space.com – September 6, 2023
An astronomer recently captured one of the most detailed-ever shots of a rare type of upward-shooting red lightning, known as a sprite, which briefly hovered in the air like a gigantic jellyfish during a thunderstorm over central Europe.
Rarely Seen ‘Red Sprites’ Have Been Glimpsed in The Sky Above Chile Science Alert – August 25, 2022
Red sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, usually triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground. However, the red sprites appear high in Earth’s atmosphere, sometimes 50-90 kilometers (31 to 55 miles) in altitude. People have been telling folktales for centuries about mysterious red lights in the sky, which were usually dismissed by experts.
Elves were first recorded on another shuttle mission, this time recorded off French Guiana on October 7, 1990. Elves is a frivolous acronym for Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations From Electromagnetic Pulse Sources. This refers to the process by which the light is generated; the excitation of nitrogen molecules due to electron collisions (the electrons having been energized by the electromagnetic pulse caused by a positive lightning bolt.
On September 14, 2001, scientists at the Arecibo Observatory photographed a huge jet double the height of those previously observed, reaching around 80 km (50 miles) into the atmosphere. The jet was located above a thunderstorm over the ocean, and lasted under a second. Lightning was initially observed traveling up at around 50,000 m per second in a similar way to a typical blue jet, but then divided in two and speeded to 250,000 m / second to the ionosphere, where they spread out in a bright burst of light.
On July 22, 2002 five gigantic jets between 60 and 70 km (35 to 45 miles) in length were observed over the South China Sea from Taiwan, reported in Nature. The jets lasted under a second, with shapes likened by the researchers to giant trees and carrots.
Researchers have speculated that such forms of upper atmospheric lightning may play a role in the formation of the ozone layer.
An enormous red circle briefly appeared in the Italian sky last week. This fleeting event, lasting a fraction of a second, looks like the dusting of a crimson doughnut but in reality, is a rare atmospheric event known as an ELVE IFL Science – April 5, 2023
An enormous red circle briefly appeared in the Italian sky last week. This fleeting event, lasting a fraction of a second, looks like the dusting of a crimson doughnut but in reality, is a rare atmospheric event known as an ELVE. ELVES are an Emission of Light and Very Low-Frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources, one of those backronyms that makes you roll your eyes so hard you fear they might get stuck.
Giant “ELVE” appears over Europe – Spaceweather.com – April 2, 2017
High above a thunderstorm in the Czech republic, an enormous ring of light appeared in the night sky. Using a low-light video camera, amateur astronomer Martin Popek of Nydek photographed the 300 km-wide donut hovering near the edge of space. It appeared for just a split second alongside the constellation Orion. This is an example of an ELVE (Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources). First seen by cameras on the space shuttle in 1990, ELVEs appear when a pulse of electromagnetic radiation from cloud-to-ground lightning propagates up toward space and hits the base of Earth’s ionosphere. A faint ring of deep-red light marks the broad ‘spot’ where the EMP hits. ELVEs often appear alongside red sprites, which are also sparked by strong lightning. ELVEs are elusive – and that’s an understatement. Blinking in and out of existence in only 1/1000th of a second, they are completely invisible to the human eye. For comparison, red sprites tend to last for hundredths of a second and regular lightning can scintillate for a second or more. Their brevity explains why ELVEs are a more recent discovery than other lightning-related phenomenon.
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astral (adj.) from etymology online
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Picatinny engineers set phasers to ‘fry’
By Jason Kaneshiro, AMC June 22, 2012With
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (June 21, 2012) — Scientists and engineers at Picatinny Arsenal are busy developing a device that will shoot lightning bolts down laser beams to destroy its target. Soldiers and science fiction fans, you’re welcome.
“We never got tired of the lightning bolts zapping our simulated (targets),” said George Fischer, lead scientist on the project.
The Laser-Induced Plasma Channel, or LIPC, is designed to take out targets that conduct electricity better than the air or ground that surrounds them. How did the scientists harness the seemingly random path made by lightning bolts and how does a laser help? To understand how the technology, it helps to get a brief background on physics.
“Light travels more slowly in gases and solids than it does in a vacuum,” explained Fischer. “We typically think of the speed of light in each material as constant. There is, however, a very small additional intensity-dependent factor to its speed. In air, this factor is positive, so light slows down by a tiny fraction when the light is more intense.”
“If a laser puts out a pulse with modest energy, but the time is incredibly tiny, the power can be huge,” Fischer continued. “During the duration of the laser pulse, it can be putting out more power than a large city needs, but the pulse only lasts for two-trillionths of a second.”
Why is this important?
“For very powerful and high intensity laser pulses, the air can act like a lens, keeping the light in a small-diameter filament,” said Fischer. “We use an ultra-short-pulse laser of modest energy to make a laser beam so intense that it focuses on itself in air and stays focused in a filament.”
To put the energy output in perspective, a big filament light bulb uses 100 watts. The optical amplifier output is 50 billion watts of optical power, Fischer said.
“If a laser beam is intense enough, its electro-magnetic field is strong enough to rip electrons off of air molecules, creating plasma,” said Fischer. “This plasma is located along the path of the laser beam, so we can direct it wherever we want by moving a mirror.”
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“Air is composed of neutral molecules and is an insulator,” Fischer said. When lightning from a thunderstorm leaps from cloud to ground, it behaves just as any other sources of electrical energy and follows the path of least resistance.
“The plasma channel conducts electricity way better than un-ionized air, so if we set up the laser so that the filament comes near a high voltage source, the electrical energy will travel down the filament,” Fischer elaborated.
A target, an enemy vehicle or even some types of unexploded ordnance, would be a better conductor than the ground it sits on. Since the voltage drop across the target would be the same as the voltage drop across the same distance of ground, current flows through the target. In the case of unexploded ordnance, it would detonate, explained Fischer.
Even though the physics behind the project is sound, the technical challenges were many, Fischer recalled.
“If the light focuses in air, there is certainly the danger that it will focus in a glass lens, or in other parts of the laser amplifier system, destroying it,” Fischer said. “We needed to lower the intensity in the optical amplifier and keep it low until we wanted the light to self-focus in air.
Other challenges included synchronizing the laser with the high voltage, ruggedizing the device to survive under the extreme environmental conditions of an operational environment, and powering the system for extended periods of time.
“There are a number of high-tech components that need to run continuously,” said Fischer.
But despite the challenges, the project has made notable progress in recent months.
“Definitely our last week of testing in January 2012 was a highlight,” said Tom Shadis, project officer on the program. “We had a well thought-out test plan and our ARDEC and contractor team worked together tirelessly and efficiently over long hours to work through the entire plan.
“The excellent results certainly added to the excitement and camaraderie,” added Fischer.
As development continues, Shadis said that those involved with the project never lose sight of the importance of their work.
“We were all proud to be serving our warfighters and can picture the LIPC system saving U.S. lives,” Fischer said.
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FEAR OF LIGHTNING
Making Electromagnetic Weapons: Directed Microwave Energy …
I’m sure almost all of you have used a microwave at some point in your lives. As a child, I always found microwaves fascinating; the idea of heating food with invisible energy, and even creating lightning should the user accidentally microwave metal! However, microwaves are not only used for heating food. Microwave energy generally falls under the 2.4 GHz (Gigahertz band). This same band is used by many wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Microwaves consist of any wavelength between 300 MHz (0.3 GHz) and 300 GHz. The range (energy) depends on the “strength” of the wavelength.
Here’s a visual representation of the electromagnetic spectrum:
Simple Cooking Appliance or Lethal Weapon?
Well, it really depends. In this article, I’ll be going over the simple basics of a microwave weapon, since microwave energy is a huge topic. In its simplest form, any waveform transfer of energy starts with excited particles and ends with excited particles.
Inside a microwave, you’ll find a large transformer (called a MOT or Microwave Oven Transformer), a large capacitor (rated around 1-2 kV; 1-100 uF), some high voltage diodes (for rectifying the alternating current from the transformer), a magnetron (the microwave emitter—I’ll go into this later), and other electrical components for operating the main electronics.
In a Microwave Weapon (MW), the components can be as simple as a magnetron, a transformer, a diode, and a capacitor. Of course, the magnetron is certainly not that simple, consisting of several finely tuned “antennas” and other components. A basic illustration of how a magnetron works is pictured below:
The round “1” is an electron source, the area between the power source and the antenna is the electron “accelerator”, and the antenna itself is a simple way of “amplifying” and broadcasting the electron energy at a specific frequency. When these “tuned electrons” hit an object (specifically water or metal), they excite the molecules and generate heat, or in the case of metal, electrical energy. This is why microwaves are so dangerous compared to EMPs. Microwaves not only wreck havoc on electronics, but also can harm living beings.
This is where I must issue a WARNING!!! Microwaves are extremely dangerous. They can PERMANENTLY HARM YOU! If you feel even the slightest uncertainty towards the physics, dangers, and overall understanding of microwaves, DO NOT construct a microwave weapon.
The Construction
The best way to create a homemade microwave weapon is with an old microwave. If you want to upgrade to a more powerful, long range device, it’s practically impossible unless you have a physics lab with extensive measuring equipment. However, an average microwave puts out 1,000-2,000 watts of energy, quite enough for destroying electronics.
Microwaves tend to “fly in all directions” unless they are directed. However, this is what the antenna does—directs the microwaves. In my experimentation, I discovered that a slight cone-shaped metal funnel has the best microwave-focusing ability. I was able to fry an old cell phone from up to 10 feet using three magnetrons and one funnel. This constitutes to about 6,000 watts (W) of directed energy, quite an accomplishment for 15 bucks spent at a thrift store. The circuit diagram for each individual magnetron looked something like this:
On a basic level, the circuit consists of a transformer, a voltage doubler (diode and capacitor) and a magnetron. The three MOTs draw lots of power, so I had to hook everything into a thick, direct mains line. The magnetron itself looks like this:
There are two large magnets that “direct” the electrons as they pass through the antenna. Also, the device has a heat sink to cool off. There are many other components and function aspects of the magnetron that are very complicated, but interesting. If you’re curious, check out the information in this article.
Once finished, the entire apparatus should look something like this:
The waveguide (or metal funnel cone) guides the microwaves in a linear direction, and allows them to be focused in a specific direction. Once directed, the microwaves can generate electrical current in any conductive metal they encounter. How much electricity they generate is determined by the distance from the magnetron and the power of the output. The microwave gun will also disrupt wireless communications (depending on their frequencies) and excite water molecules.
- MICROWAVES ARE VERY VERY DANGEROUS. DO NOT attempt to build this device unless you are very very confident in your understanding of the dangers, correct practice of safety, and legal concerns.
- HIGH VOLTAGE! Microwave Transformers can easily kill you! Treat then with respect! Remember… Fear of Lightning.
- DO NOT use this device on anything or anywhere where it violates FCC rules or any other legal constraint!
- I am not responsible for any damage, harm, or legal trouble you get yourself into.
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Yea, I know all this sounds nutty, and it probably is.
But the nuttiness isn’t mine. It belongs to “them”, you know, the guys that sit around and dream all this stuff up. “N.” found this article and passed it along (our thanks!), and it’s worth absorbing, because it’s not coming from an “alternative media” source, but from Forbes magazine:
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When The CIA Considered Weaponizing Lightning
Here’s what has leaped out at me:
Thunderbolts are traditionally the weapon of the gods, but in 1967 the CIA were wondering whether they, too, could call down bolts of lightning from the heavens at will.
The idea is contained in a proposal from a scientist, sent to the CIA’s Deputy for Research ‘Special Activities’ and passed on to the chief of the Air Systems division. The scientist’s name has been redacted in the declassified document from the CIA’s archive, but the proposal mentions a previous discussion with the CIA, indicating they were being taken seriously.
The guided lightning concept is based on the observation that lightning follows a path of ionized air known as a step leader. Once the leader stroke reaches the ground and makes a circuit, the lightning proper is formed and a current flow, typically around 300 million Volts at 30,000 Amps.
The scientist suggests that artificial leaders could “cause discharges to occur when and where we want them.” The artificial leader would be a wire a few thousandths of an inch in diameter and several miles long. Wires would be inserted into storms by aircraft or rockets on a spool, and unrolled by a drogue parachute, and lightning would follow them down to the ground.
“This method is possible because the main discharge will occur through ionized surrounding the wire,” notes the scientist. The wire, like the leader, is only needed to get the lightning going, and would still work even if it broke.
Now let’s dive into today’s high octane speculation. If you’ve been following the phenomenon of “chemtrails” and the spraying being conducted, one of the things you’ll have come across is the claim that much of the material being sprayed is particulate heavy metals. Sometimes the composition of this spray varies, but among the metals most often mentioned in this regard are aluminum, and barium. Sometimes there are others. In some examinations, the spraying began during the Reagan era as a secretive effort to increase the electrical conductivity of the atmosphere for his Strategic Defense Initiative project. This needed a “cover story,” so in some versions, the spraying was being done to “save the environment” or to “combat climate change” (which explanation in itself is intriguing, because that implied the ability to manipulate weather on a planetary scale).
As the article itself notes, the use of wires was intended to provide a channel for lightning to close the circuit between the atmosphere and the ground, but that it “would still work even if it broke.” In other words, you do not need a long wire, but several short ones in close proximity to each other to provide a channel or circuit for the lightning. Like particulate aerosolized heavy metals…
The next thing one needs is the ability to create the large charge differentials to be able to cause lightning to strike, otherwise that sheath of heavy metals might function to block such strikes like a big Faraday cage, though in my opinion this possibility is unlikely for a variety of reasons. In any case, one needs an ability to ionize the atmosphere sufficiently to build up these enormous charges, or to take a naturally occurring storm, and load more energy into it. Enter the ionosphere heaters like HAARP. Indeed, when this technology was being dreamed up and patented – incidentally, during Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative era – some of the uses claimed for it were weather modification and steering, missile defense, and some analysts also made good cases that it could be used to cause lightning strikes.
In other words, the USA had, and has had, this capability since at least the 1980s, and probably now many other nations as well. Put the two together – the spraying and the heaters – and one would have the equivalent, perhaps, of the ability to bombard a region or area with lightning, a kind of “carpet bombing with lightning”, and to coin a pun, a true and proper Blitz.
Obviously, carpet bombing with lightning isn’t exactly “assassination” in any classical sense. For that, one would need some means for precision strikes, not just an aerosolized region and lightning strikes to start forest fires. One would need some means to be able to dial someone up, or at least, locate them, and use whatever such device that might be providing that location, to pulse it and them.
Yea… I know. It sounds nutty. And probably is.
But… while you’re reading this on your ipad, remember that the first two essential requirements have been around since the 1980s at least, and the weaponized lightning idea since at least 1967, if not long before that, with the lightning bolts of the gods, who may not have been gods at all, but just people with an extraordinarily sophisticated science. After all, the ability to call down lightning strikes at a specific point would certainly impress a bunch of hairless monkeys who were still using bows and arrows to accomplish their mischief.
See you on the flip side…
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Lightning laser weapon developed by US Army
US Army scientists are developing a weapon which can fire a laser-guided lightning bolt at a target.
The Laser-Induced Plasma Channel (LIPC) is designed to hit targets that conduct electricity better than the air or ground that surrounds them.
The weapon went through extensive testing in January (2012).
George Fischer, lead scientist on the project, said: “We never got tired of the lightning bolts zapping our simulated [targets].”
Details of the weapon were released on the US Army’s website.
Mr Fischer explained how the usually unpredictable lightning bolts can be controlled.
“During the duration of the laser pulse, it can be putting out more power than a large city needs, but the pulse only lasts for two-trillionths of a second.”
50 billion watts
This means, Mr Fischer said, the air could be manipulated to “act like a lens”.
“We use an ultra-short-pulse laser of modest energy to make a laser beam so intense that it focuses on itself in air and stays focused in a filament,” he said.
Fifty billion watts of optical power are used. By comparison, a typical filament lightbulb uses 100 watts of power.
“If a laser beam is intense enough, its electro-magnetic field is strong enough to rip electrons off of air molecules, creating plasma,” Mr Fischer said.
The team said it faced a challenge in making the technology rugged enough to survive in harsh battle conditions.
The military’s scientific fringe has toyed with weather manipulation and geo-engineering for years. Recently, ideas like adding iron to the ocean, or covering the Arctic with dust, have been floated in a bid stave off global warming. But the Pentagon’s also got a long track record of plotting to screw with enemy climates and improve their own operational abilities.
Now, Darpa’s got a new target for geo-hacking science, and if they can make it work, we might see modern firearms making way for weapons of the mythological variety. The out-there research agency is soliciting proposals that would harness control over “the natural mechanism of lightning initiation“ by coming up with a way to launch manmade lightning bolts, and prevent or redirect natural lightning strikes — and their accompanying destruction.
Once the natural mechanism of lightning formation and travel is understood, the agency wants a plan to predict lightning strikes — and then either stop the storms, or reroute them to a better strategic location.
And Americans everywhere should brace themselves for stormy skies, because Darpa wants the storm-brewing techniques to be tested nationwide:
[Photo: Lawrence Livermore National Lab]
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U.S. Air Force Report on Microwave Radiation Biological Effects, Nexrad Pulses, and Plasma Formation
The U.S. Air Force’s Rome Laboratory has conducted extensive research on the biological effects of radiofrequency/microwave (RF/MW) radiation and its safety standards. The 1994 in‑house report “Radiofrequency/Microwave Radiation Biological Effects and Safety Standards: A Review” by Scott M. Bolen summarizes decades of U.S. and international research, including studies from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Archive+1.
Key Findings on Biological Effects
- Thermal effects are the most well‑established: microwaves can heat biological tissue, especially water‑rich tissues, leading to burns or heat stress at high exposure levels Archive.
- Non‑thermal effects have been reported in some studies, including changes in brain activity, sleep patterns, and possible cognitive effects, but these remain controversial and are not consistently reproducible Archive.
- The ANSI C95.1‑1982 standard and the U.S. Air Force AFOSH Standard 161‑9 set permissible exposure limits based on preventing harmful heating effects Archive.
Nexrad Pulses and Safety
NEXRAD (Next Generation Radar) systems use pulsed microwave signals for weather surveillance. The Air Force’s research considered:
- Pulse characteristics (frequency, duty cycle, peak power) and their potential to cause localized heating or transient effects.
- Exposure limits for personnel near radar installations, ensuring that even during high‑power pulses, average exposure remains below safety thresholds.
- Shielding and operational procedures to minimize incidental exposure to operators and nearby populations.
Microwave Radiation and Plasma Formation
Microwaves can ionize gases and initiate plasma formation under certain conditions:
- High‑power microwave sources (e.g., radar transmitters, microwave ovens) can excite gas molecules, stripping electrons and creating plasma.
- In radar environments, plasma can form in the radome or near the antenna aperture if moisture or contaminants are present, potentially affecting radar performance and safety.
- The Air Force’s work included assessing plasma hazards in high‑power microwave systems, noting that while plasma is not a direct biological hazard in normal operation, it can cause equipment damage and electromagnetic interference.
Safety and Operational Implications
- Personnel safety: Strict adherence to RF/MW exposure limits prevents thermal injury and reduces uncertainty about non‑thermal effects.
- Equipment protection: Monitoring for plasma formation helps maintain radar integrity and avoid arcing or component failure.
- Research direction: The Air Force’s historical programs (e.g., Tri‑Service Conferences on microwave effects) emphasized both biological hazard assessment and engineering mitigation Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum.
In summary, the Rome Laboratory’s RF/MW research established that while microwaves from Nexrad pulses are generally safe within regulatory limits, high‑power systems can produce plasma under certain conditions, and both thermal and non‑thermal biological effects require careful monitoring and control Archive+2.
Interesting report I found 1994 Air Force report on the biological effects of Radio Frequency Microwaves, NEXRAD pulsing microwaved 24/7 in the United States and Fire + Microwaves = Plasma
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a282886.pdf
https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2018/carr-firenado
https://www.roc.noaa.gov/WSR88D/Maps.aspx
http://tempest.aos.wisc.edu/radar/uscompflash.html
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Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, July 3, 2021, #308
GeoengineeringWatch.org
Sat, Jul 3, 4:49 PM (8 hours ago)
The climate engineers have yet again set the stage for record incinerations in western North America, the burning has begun. The increasingly shocking CV-19 vaccination reaction, injury, and mortality statistics are being systematically censored by all major media sources. The walls are closing in by the day and even now few are willing to face the gravity and immediacy of what is unfolding. Thank you for tuning in to this weeks installment of Global Alert News, thank you also for your help with sounding the alarm.
Most sincerely,
Dane
yet again being baked and burned to the ground, and summer is just getting started. The eastern half of the US continues to be kept cool and wet in between heat waves. Covert climate intervention operations are core to both equations. Within the ranks of populations, many continue to blindly roll up their sleeves in the belief that doing so will somehow save them from what is unfolding. How long do we have until impact? The latest installment of Global Alert News is below, thank you for tuning in.Full article: https://www.
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GEOENGINEERING WATCH GLOBAL ALERT NEWS, JULY 3, 2021, #308 ( DANE WIGINGTON )
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Record heat, fires, smoke, hurricanes, floods and huge hail, how’s is your 4th of July holiday going? Western North America is yet again being baked and burned to the ground, and summer is just getting started. The eastern half of the US continues to be kept cool and wet in between heat waves. Covert climate intervention operations are core to both equations. Within the ranks of populations, many continue to blindly roll up their sleeves in the belief that doing so will somehow save them from what is unfolding. How long do we have until impact?
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It might help you to understand and accept that this is all true, if you understand the WHY… the motivation of these folks. Here it is. THEY WANT TO BE GOD.
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The following clip presents a quote from Richard Seed, Physical Human Cloning Researcher:
“We are going to become GODs, period”
“We are going to become Gods period. If you don’t like it, get off. But, if you are going to interfere with me becoming God, we’re gonna have big trouble. We will have warfare. The only way you can prevent me in this is to kill me, you kill me, I will kill you. God made man in his own image. God intended for man to become one with God. We are going to become one with God. Cloning and the reprogramming of DNA is the first serious step, in becoming one with God.” Richard Seed Source: Wikipedia
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This is the oldest lie ever told. Satan has not had to change his strategy at all! Man’s ego is so strong, he is eager to believe the lie. Satan is a created being. He is foolish enough to assume that he is smarter than the Creator. Satan could not even save himself from eternal damnation.
Type 1 through 7 Civilizations
In 1964 a Soviet astronomer by the name of Nikolai Kardashev introduced a hypothetical scale that can be used to measure the potential of a civilization based on the amount of energy it can produce. There have been some adjustments to the kardeshev scale over the years, and now it shows the amount of energy required for the types of civilizations and what they are capable of.
The mathematics shows that there should be thousands of types 1, 2, and 3 civilizations, but we just don’t see any. This could be because the transition from type 0 to type 1 is so dangerous. To realize how dangerous it can be, I need to explain what type 0 and type 1 civilizations are.
Type 0 civilization is any civilization that is not capable of harnessing all the energy from its home planet. We are about a .7 because we do collect some energy from the sun, water, and air, but that is not the main source of energy. We choose energy that isn’t renewable and it will one day run out.
Type 1 civilization can gather all the energy that reaches the home planet in the form of solar but it can also obtain the energy its home planet gives off, like thermal, wind, hydro, etc. Physicist Michio Kaku thinks a planetary civilization should be able to control such things as earthquakes, the weather, volcanoes, and would be building ocean cities. If that’s the case, we are not quite there yet. Kaku thinks it’ll take another 100–200 or so years for us to get to Type 1 status. Carl Sagan thought we are currently at about 0.7 on the way to type 1. Type 1 civilization has peace throughout the entire planet, and they also have a universal language.
Michio Kaku 3 types of Civilizations – YouTube
A Type-1 civilization has harnessed its planetary power. They control earthquakes, the weather, volcanoes, they have cities on the ocean, anything planetary – they control. That’s Type-1 civilization.
A Type-2 civilization is stellar. They have exhausted the power of the planet, and they get their energy directly from their mother star. They use the power of the sun itself to energize their huge machines.
Will Humans Achieve a Type 1 Civilization by 2100?
Now what are we on this scale? We are Type-0. We don’t even rate on this scale. We get our energy from not stars and galaxies, but from dead plants – Oil and coal. But we can calculate when we will attain Type-1 status – In about a hundred years!
We are seeing the beginnings of a Type-1 economy. Huge planetary trading blocks are the beginnings of a planetary economy (Referring to European Union, NAFTA, etc). And what is the Internet? The Internet is the beginning of a Type-1 telephone/communications system.
The mathematics says that there should be thousands of Type-1, 2 and 3 civilizations in the galaxy. But we see no evidence of it anywhere. And why is that? Because, the transition from Type-0 to Type-1 is the most dangerous of all transitions. We may not make it. Its a race against time.
There is a question that is beginning to haunt the world of science; it’s been rearing its ugly head for the last several decades. The question is simply, “is the universe unnatural?”
As most of you are aware, particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced in July of 2012 that they had finally discovered the elusive Higgs boson – that discovery has since been confirmed. The confirmation of the Higgs’ existence was one of the greatest triumphs of science in 2012, confirming the nearly 50-year-old theory that aims to explain how elementary particles have mass. Arkani-Hamed from the Institute for Advanced Study explained, “the fact that it was seen more or less where we expected to find it is a triumph for the experiment, it’s a triumph for the theory, and it’s an indication that physics works.”
This discovery, however, was a double edged sword.
The Higgs has gotten all of the media attention; however, quantum theories also suggest that scientists should have found a host of other particles along with the Higgs in order to really show that the whole theory makes sense. Thus far, these particles haven’t been found. That might not sound like a big deal, but without these accompanying particles, using our current understandings of quantum theory, the Higgs’ mass in reality is exponentially different than what is predicted by the modified theories.
The strange properties of water zapped by lightning
Dec 14, 2015 / Lucas Laursen (PAW = Plasma activated Water)
Why an environmental chemist in Holland is betting that both farming and hospitals might be improved with the use of a fancy form of water.
Something funny happens to water when you spray it through an electrical field: The water can now fight microbes. (Or something in the water can.) Plasma-activated water (PAW) is a fascinating substance that scientists around the world are looking at, in a fast-developing field that’s testing a broad range of uses. Dutch environmental chemist Paul Leenders (TEDxArnhem talk: Plasma-activated water: Nature’s answer to chemical pesticides) hopes to harness PAW to fight microbes in hospitals and on farms. Here’s how it works.
Plasma-activated water: less exotic than it sounds. After solid, liquid and gas comes plasma, the fourth state of matter. Lightning is one of Nature’s ways of making plasma, and scientists can replicate it in the lab by running electricity through a pair of electrodes; the strong electrical field ionizes air molecules and turns them into plasma. Scientists have been experimenting with creating plasmas since the late 19th century; sometime in the mid-20th century they discovered that when they exposed water to a plasma, the water picked up molecules such as nitrogen oxide and hydrogen peroxide from the air that made it more acidic and capable of fending off microbes. “Spray the water through the lightning,” Leenders says, and then stir. Voilà: PAW.
Because science is never done. The science around PAW is still developing, but researchers are busy dreaming up potential applications for it. A Chinese team recently reported that soaking button mushrooms in plasma-activated water reduced counts of bacteria and fungus and helped keep the mushrooms fresher. A German team has been designing tests that would establish PAW’s suitability for sterilization in medical settings. And a Russian team published a paper in 2011 showing that PAW promoted germination and root growth in zinnia flowers. Meanwhile, an American team found that, oddly, a 15-minute exposure to PAW killed more E. coli bacteria suspended in the water than did a three-hour exposure.
PAW as a disinfectant. Leenders is working with researchers at Radboud University in Nijmegen to test how PAW compares to other disinfectants such as alcohol. Cheap, widely accessible disinfectants are particularly valuable in hospitals because they can play a role in reducing infections. (In the rich world, some 7 percent of hospitalized patients acquire a new infection during treatment; in the developing world the number is 10 percent, the World Health Organization estimates.) If Leenders can prove that this works, and then come up with a way to help hospitals create their own PAW on the cheap, that could provide a useful alternative to existing disinfectants.
PAW as a preservative. Food companies are interested in using PAW or other plasma-activated solutions to preserve food, Leenders says. Short bursts of plasma-activated air helped decontaminate chicken in a 2011 study. Meanwhile, FloraHolland, a flower growers’ cooperative in The Netherlands, has been working with Leenders to test university-produced samples of PAW to store cut flowers — in place of the chlorinated water typically used. “They have proven that plasma-activated water is just as active and just as good,” Leenders says.
PAW on the farm. Leenders dreams of farmers using PAW to spray their crops, to enhance growth (containing ammonia, it can be a natural fertilizer) and cut down on harmful microbes in the soil. Large-scale usage still a long way off — his current machine only produces around 120 liters an hour, which is about enough for one hectare of farmland. And as another caveat: PAW doesn’t actually fend off insects, so farmers would still need a treatment to do that. Given the regulatory challenges of getting a product approved as a biocide, fungicide, or pesticide, Leenders says it may make more sense to start with plant growth enhancement first.
Photo illustration by Kelly Rakowski for TED with photos from Shutterstock.