#lightning sprite

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Lightning sprites, or red sprites, often occurring in tandem with lightning. They are short-lived electrical discharges that flash high above thunderstorms in the mesosphere layer of the atmosphere. (Photo by Stephen Hummel, McDonald Observatory, Texas, United States)

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[maureen2musings]

"This is nature- not AI. Lightning sprites in Oklahoma. Lightning sprites are large, colorful electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds. Extremely difficult to see and photograph because of their short duration and faintness, only about a millisecond to capture."

paulmsmithphotography

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Red Sprites over Oklahoma l Domenico

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by paulmsmithphitography

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guess what i've been playing

[pentacentric]

SAM WEEK 2025: Day 5 - Sam & Music

A Perfect Day to Chase Tornados | Jim White

red sprite lightning is a real thing, a very eldritch thing. it happens so quickly we can't see it ourselves and have to believe people with very fast cameras instead.

magpie lore is 100% sam, across pretty much all cultures. here we have one, for sorrow.

and many of jim white's songs are winchester songs. this one is feeling like sam right now. this lyric in particular:

But sometimes I feel so goddamned trapped by everything that I know.

And I wish it wasn't so, cause the only thing that anyone should ever know

Is that today's a perfect day to chase tornados.

Yeah, when the wild wind whips around your head you know,

That you have found a perfect day to chase tornados.

[actual-haise]

Despite being mentioned in legends that date back 3000 years ago as the "Darkest Day", the first actual sighting of the legendary Pokémon Eternatus occured on a flight in 2019.

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how are lightning sprites formed

Dangerously. To make a single lightning sprite, over 30 wild strikes have to be collected by specialist lightning farmers and crammed into the can of regular Sprite before it's plugged with a traditional Sprite globule. On average, two employees die per can of lightning flavored Sprite you see on the shelf, making it the 4th unsafest job in America after coal miner, oil rig worker, and literally anything for the government right now.

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Red thunder

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THE VOICES.

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Meteors and Red Sprites l Paul M Smith

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Grand Cosmic Fireworks by Angel An

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The photo, titled Cosmic Fireworks, won the Skyscapes category of the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by the Royal Observatory Greenwich. This breathtaking image not only showcases the awe-inspiring beauty of sprite discharges but also sparks public interest in extreme weather phenomena and their scientific significance. Credit: Angel An

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shakes fists....i want to make a losh visual novel

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Red sprite lightning, photos by Nicolas Escurat and Thanasis Papathanasiou