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How Lightning Works

Started bySam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
First post2016-05-07 14:48 -0500
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  How Lightning Works Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-07 14:48 -0500
    Re: How Lightning Works jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-05-07 20:35 +0000

#576244 — How Lightning Works

FromSam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Date2016-05-07 14:48 -0500
SubjectHow Lightning Works
Message-ID<ZeGdnSi-F_sS27PKnZ2dnUU7-fudnZ2d@giganews.com>
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.


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Fromjimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Date2016-05-07 20:35 +0000
Message-ID<76020d-res.ln1@mail.specsol.com>
In reply to#576244
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.
 

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