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Re: How Lightning Works

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
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Subject Re: How Lightning Works
Date 2016-05-07 20:35 +0000
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> How Lightning Works
>> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/how-lightning-works.html
> 
>> No one is sure how lightning gets started, but one theory is that
>> incoming cosmic rays from outer space serve as the trigger.
 
And another is simply that the voltage gets high enough for flash over.
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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