NASA: Three of the most powerful hurricanes of 2005 were filled with mysterious lightning.

NASA Science News ^ | 01/09/2006 | science@nasa

[MarineBrat]

Rovian Lightning? Have at it!

[cgk]

bflr

[big'ol_freeper]

Invasion.

[A CA Guy]

Maybe when storms get that large, they attract so much lightening and get such great static charges that there is additional light not seen in lesser storms.

We can only guess, but a big storm could be more complex I would think.

[conservative barking moonbat]

How many posts until we get the reason why?

[The Lumster]

Come on everybody knows these weren't ordinary hurricanes. These hurricanes were generated by the Weather-Matic 3000 built by Halliburton and currently housed in the basement of the white house.

Geez - this is old news

[fishtank]

Either Rovian, or it's BUSH'S FAULT!!!

[vigilante2]

because these three storms were created by George Bush and Carl Roves weather machine

[aft_lizard]

War of the worlds man, the aliens are riding the bolts down to there tripods and are just waiting to strike.

[Mad_as_heck]

Everyone knows that mysterious lighting is the mark of the Rovian weather control machine. This is old news.

[sms]

"War of the worlds man, the aliens are riding the bolts down to there tripods and are just waiting to strike."


Sadly, that's just as plausible as saying it's Bush's fault.

[ricks_place]

...hurricane season of 2005 three of the most powerful storms--Rita, Katrina, and Emily--did have lightning, lots of it. And researchers would like to know why....

One word --- GLOBAL WARMING

Save the Taxpayer money; don't bother with the study. All this business with storms and lightning could have been avoided if only the US Senate would have ratified Kyoto. Its an awful shame that Al Gore is All Gone.

[RTINSC]

Cheney accidentally hit the lightning button on the Haliburton Hurricane Generator..

[spunkets]

"For reasons not fully understood, positive electric charge accumulates on smaller particles while negative charge clings to the larger ones."

The charge generally resides on the surface. Larger surfaces can accomodate more charge and attain a lower energy. The positive charge is not that mobile, it's bound in the lattice. Electrons are mobile, so they distribute themselves during the process to arrive at the lowest energy configuration. That occurs when the surface charge density is minimized. That's accomplished by the mile electrons arranging themselves. Large particles have the capacity to hold more charge at the same charge density as the small ones, so the electrons will accumulate there.

[FreedomNeocon]

Not to worry folks... just need to calibrate targeting before we hit IRAN.

HAARP

[spunkets]

"the mile electrons"

mile = mobile.

[BreitbartSentMe]

They're HERE!!!

[orionblamblam]

Freakin' Martians...

[LRS]

ELECTRIFYING NEWS!

Like a bolt out of the blue!

[mad_as_he$$]

Isn't that two words?