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About Me
- Luke
- I started this blog out of curiousity and it grew to become a great encouragement for me in my Christian walk. I hope the writings here can be used by God to further His work in your life.
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What's This? A Blog Post???8 months ago
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opening day [squeezed in versinon]1 year ago
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[Free *HD*] The Good Lie Free5 years ago
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Three Princes... and a Pauper7 years ago
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What day is it?7 years ago
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the.big.28 years ago
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Our ellipsis . . .8 years ago
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Disney World8 years ago
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November 20148 years ago
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The Other Side of the Hill8 years ago
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Pink Explosion8 years ago
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Illnesses and injuries9 years ago
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What they say about Good Friday9 years ago
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I am unclean9 years ago
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My Blog has Moved!9 years ago
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December... Full, Full, Full!9 years ago
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An Overnight Guest10 years ago
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A New Beginning...10 years ago
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Worlds Greatest Beans10 years ago
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5 or 50??10 years ago
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Zach & Daniela's Wedding Reception11 years ago
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July in Review11 years ago
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A Note from Tucker11 years ago
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I wonder how many times12 years ago
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Finally!12 years ago
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2012 resolutions12 years ago
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7.24.1112 years ago
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5 comments:
That is sooo cool. But I thought that lightning started from the ground.
The bolt shoots up from the ground, but the static electricity is generated in the clouds. The first 3 seconds is when the cloud sends down "tracers", as soon as one makes solid contact with the ground a charge fires up from the ground to the cloud.
At least, I think that's what we're seeing. I'm no lightning expert.
i think your blog is in super slow mo
I think you're right. I'll try to find something "blog-worthy" today. :-)
Actually there is a large amount of charge moving across the ground that is racing up tall structures in its path to determine if it has the potential to jump to the clouds that carry an opposite charge. The charge moves forward on the ground essentially in the "shadow" of the moving cloud above. The clouds are sending down tracers and once the required potential is there to transverse the distance between earth and cloud the charge will jump to the clouds and there well be a flow of energy back and forth between earth and sky until the potential of both bodies are equalized. The notable exception to this is a particularly strong form of lightning that occurs over places like the Sea of Japan where the initial strike is actually from the clouds to the ground (in this case--sea). This is a much more violent event than the normal everyday lightning strike and only occurs in small percentage of the all lighnting strikes. However, it should be noted that all the mechanism of lightning strikes are not completely understood so further research continues in this venue....
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