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  Down a rabbit hole with ball lightningDec 19, 2015 1:10 AM PST | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:In the middle of a little pep walk I took in between drawing and watercoloring this page, I got soaked pretty good by a rain/hail storm from nearly out of the blue. Coincidentally, I had been reading up on lightning earlier in the afternoon (it featured in a "Golden Age" public domain Captain Marvel Jr. comic I was reading : P), particularly unusual phenomena like ball lightning (existence still disputed since scientific observations have been minimal to nonexistent!), and "bolts from the blue."
 
Bolts from the blue, lightning that strikes out of a seemingly clear or lightning-free sky, form differently from regular cloud-to-ground lightning. They have a *positive* charge, shoot out of the top of the cloud before traveling along for miles perpendicular to the ground, and tend to be something like ten times as powerful as regular (negatively charged) lightning. : o
 
I do have to stop falling down these little internet rabbit holes, though; I managed to get myself up regularly at 7:00 am (or even earlier >_<) this week, so pages were a little more on time than usual, but there were some rough patches, and increasing internet curiosity as the week went on didn't help smooth them over. >>_<< Discipline, discipline...
 
 
 
 
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