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Music
Create Your Own Tesla Coil Musical With The ArcAttack Emulator
10:40AM Sean Fallon | Giz Gallery this year witnessed the electrifying (and slightly terrifying) musical spectacle that is ArcAttack. Well, now they have an emulator on their website that allows you to make music of your own. More »
Random Stuff
The Wrath Of God Or A Huge Atmospheric Discharge Of Electricity
10:00AM Jesus Diaz | Rain, thunder, and lightning are taking over NYC, but nothing as spectacular as this gigantic ray striking aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis. Or as scary as this one, touching ground near the Davis Besse Nuclear Power Station in Ohio: More »
Vehicles
Shuttle Delayed By Lightning
2:00PM Jesus Diaz | The little thing at the bottom of this image is the space shuttle Endeavour, which was supposed to launch today. That huge glowing thing is a lightning striking from the sky. Not surprisingly, the launch has been delayed: More »
Random Stuff
iPod Saves Girl From Lightning Death
10:40AM Jesus Diaz | 14 year old Sophie Frost was trying to find shelter from a thunder storm when she dropped unconscious and fried like a bag of chips. The culprit: A lightning bolt. Thankfully, this one didn’t die thanks to her iPod. More »
Weapons
Scientist Tries to Create a Phaser to Shoot Lightning Balls
9:45AM Adam Frucci | Apparently, sometimes lightning comes in ball form, slowly falling out of the sky and exploding on contact. Unsurprisingly, people want to turn lightning balls into weapons. Oh, humanity. More »
Science
Theory: Traffic Triggers Lightning
9:41AM Brian Lam | It’s just a theory but some scientists believe that lightning strikes are provoked by traffic. Honk if you like thunder! More »
Science
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Ever wondered about what really happens when lightning strikes? This great video on PopSci breaks down the phenomenon using the best scientific footage available – YouTube videos.
Even if you don’t care what happens when lightning strikes, it’s still worth a watch just so you can join the people behind the video camera swearing at how frickin’ close the lightning gets to them.
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PopSci Show Us The Science Behind Lightning With Some Awesome YouTube Footage
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Ever wondered about what really happens when lightning strikes? This great video on PopSci breaks down the phenomenon using the best scientific footage available – YouTube videos.
Even if you don’t care what happens when lightning strikes, it’s still worth a watch just so you can join the people behind the video camera swearing at how frickin’ close the lightning gets to them.
[PopSci] More »
Science
Slow Motion Lightning Video is Mindblowing, Will Sell a Thousand Slo-Mo Cameras
7:00AM Adam Frucci | Well, this is just about the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. It’s a lightning bolt that’s shooting down from the sky, shot in slow motion. I’m not sure exactly how fast this camera is, but it’s got to be shooting at a speed faster than the Casio EX-F1 can shoot at, at least at a resolution this high. Whatever, who cares? Just watch this and prepare to be blown away. More »
Science
The True Story of the Hurricane Katrina Lightning-Laser Memorial and the Peg-Leg Biologist
2:00AM Jack Loftus | Joe Davis is telling me about his design for a 110-foot lightning-laser tower that will literally seize a hurricane’s force, bottle it up and hurl it angrily back into the sky. It’s intended as a memorial for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Davis—whose official role at MIT is research affiliate associate in the biology department—plans to name the tower “Call Me Ishmael.” I ask him why, but before I finish the question, he smashes his steel peg leg down onto the table. More »
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