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« on: May 12, 2008, 04:59:06 PM »

With all the debates about global warming and what not, I thought we could take a brief second to view nature in all its glory:



Lightning around an erupting volcano...

... I mean... WOW! Shocked

If anyone else has a cool picture to share, by all means, do so.
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« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2008, 06:57:41 AM »

That's my background pic.
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« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2008, 10:04:41 AM »

Does that mean you have a bigger pic?

Can you give me the link where you got it?
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« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2008, 12:27:26 PM »

A storm here in KC:

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« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2008, 12:30:17 PM »

Well, I hope no one was hurt or killed in the fire...

... but it's still a pretty cool picture...
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« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2008, 12:42:38 PM »

Don't worry, it was just fuel.
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« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2008, 08:21:23 PM »

Great pics, but locally it's very difficult to breathe when one goes outside. Not just unhealthy air for sensitive groups, but just plain unhealthy air.  Dry lightening is the reason in our case and this summer though CA tends to burn in the summer this is how it is as the
result of thousands of strikes and appears that there will be more today/tonight and more fires as the result.  Worst I've ever seen in 38
years residing in the not so golden state. Global warming or just normal climate change?  In either case the smoke is really nasty and the
whole Central Valley is bad news. 

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/1012305.html
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« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2008, 06:52:41 PM »

Sad  I can't view it for some reason


With all the debates about global warming and what not, I thought we could take a brief second to view nature in all its glory:



Lightning around an erupting volcano...

... I mean... WOW! Shocked

If anyone else has a cool picture to share, by all means, do so.
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« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2008, 07:57:51 PM »

The link is probably dead by now.

Does this work for you?

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« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2008, 08:31:38 PM »

Once again, Abraxas, what a spectacular pic!  No complaint from me, but I question if the early fire season we are experiencing with hundreds of dry lightening fires is simply one more aspect of the global warming. Thanks for sharing the pics. Very true it is nature in all of it's natural beauty. 
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« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2008, 03:29:59 PM »

FU*&ing sweet dude
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« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2008, 07:15:26 PM »

One of my professors is doing plasma physics research with NASA and we had an interesting conversation about this.

They're honestly not entirely sure why lightning does this... and the theories are all pretty interesting...
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