Eiffel Tower Lightning

[TehBorken]

   [font color="black" face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="2"]Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower, June 3, 1902, at 9:20 P.M. This is one of the earliest photographs of lightning in an urban setting In:"Thunder and Lightning", Camille Flammarion, translated by Walter Mostyn. Published in 1906.

[/font]The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Photo Library has all sorts of cool weather-related photos (some of the best ones are vintage photos).  [span style="text-decoration: underline;"][/span][a href="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/wea00602.htm"]http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/wea00602.htm[/a]
[img style="width: 653px; height: 969px;" src="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/images/wea00602.jpg"]
   

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visible plasma.also accompanied with microwaves,radiowaves,free ions and positive electrons.

 

    same stuff but glass ball prevents conductivity to person.also added in is gases like xeon and neon to colour the charges.

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  black hole (enhanced imagery)

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  quasar

[Future Canadian]

Wow soapbox, rad pics!

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  northern lights

  (shot was alaska but could be anywhere in canada as well!)

[Future Canadian]

That first picture Teh posted makes me wonder if the photographer was either quick or lucky with that shot-or it might just be (this just dawned on me) that their exposure times were probably measured in minutes in those days for that kind of photo.

I remember reading an interview with Mario Andretti where he was trying to capture lightning with a camera just for kicks and to keep his reflexes sharp.  

[P.C.]

Spectacular.  Beautiful pics soapbox !!!!!  

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    neptune  ( blue because of red light wavelength striking the high methane composition)  

[P.C.]

Do you ever wonder about the beauty on our planet that we will never see in our lifetime  I think about it a lot.  That's one of the reasons I love the internet.  OK, so maybe it's not the same as SEEING IT, but at least you get to even know it's out there.  

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  close up of saturns rings

   

    ikon in the shadow of the rings (blue shift due to lack of enhancement)  

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     our big ball of hydrogen. core temp and pressure so high nuclear forces occur.

  700 million tonnes of hydrogen are "burned "every second.

[P.C.]

Holy magnificsense (jeez my spelling is bad tonight, but I'm too tired and lazy to look it up...lol)

Amazing pics....thanks soapbox.  

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  Teuthowenia, an odd midwater squid - not even really that deep        

[Future Canadian]

soapbox you are on fire tonight, m'man. Awesome pics! Even though awesome is a frequently overused word it applies when you're looking at the surface of the freakin' Sun, man!

Cool!