Here's a cool fact
V lightning scar V
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and this is what happens with lightning after hitting stuff
[url]http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2009/11/03/fulgurites-high-glass-digs-where-lightning-goes-to-die/[/url]
[QUOTE=J!NX;45235672]Here's a cool fact
this is what happens with lightning after hitting sand
[t]http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-not-simpler/files/2013/07/NP0IppT.jpg[/t]
consider yourself now blown away[/QUOTE]
This is so cool
Best shots are right at the end.
[QUOTE=Shreddinger;45235676]This is so cool[/QUOTE]
That one specifically is fake
[url]http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-not-simpler/2013/07/02/what-really-happens-when-lightning-strikes-sand-the-science-behind-a-viral-photo/[/url]
[quote]This brings us all the way back to the viral photo. It’s bogus.
First, the photo supposedly shows a specimen of fulgurite that looks nothing like any of the other myriad, cataloged examples that you can easy find on Google. Second, when petrified lightning is exposed by erosion, it is in a relatively calm area (they are fragile after all). The viral photo is on the edge of a beach with foot traffic and a tide. It would never make it to that size without having a team of geologists quickly excavate it in front of tanning swimmers for the shot. Third, looking again at all the other examples of fulgurite specimens (that it looks nothing like), the object in the viral photo has obviously been tampered with. The spires on the top of it were put there afterwards. Even if it were fulgurite underneath, the extra weight would surely topple or break it. That’s the best-case scenario: An amazing piece of petrified lightning with wet sand dripped on it by playful beachgoers.
But the most likely scenario is that this isn’t what happens when lightning strikes sand at all. Nothing about the photo is consistent with the already understood phenomenon. On Reddit, where the picture was first picked up, the first commenter nails it:
As someone who lives near the beach, this is a stick stuck in the sand [that] had wet drippy sand slowly dripped/poured on it.[/quote]
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