Dayum Nature, you scarey!

Casey Pelous

Senior Discount
VVO Supporter 🍦🎈👾❤
Joined
Sep 24, 2018
Messages
1,978
Location
USA, upper left corner
SL Rez
2007
Joined SLU
February, 2011
SLU Posts
10461
Eerie how you can hear the birds just yakking away in the background.
Also eerie: The pickup that drives by at about 0:11 at a leisurely pace.

If that was me .... well, let's just say the truck would be moving more briskly. There would also be intense sound effects involving simultaneous screaming, cursing, and praying.
 

Isabeau

Merdeuse
Joined
Sep 20, 2018
Messages
7,948
Location
Montréal
There was an earthquake (4.9) in s. California today, one in Utah (4.5) 12 hours ago, Texas (5.1) plus nearly a hundred all last week in Texas, even a small one (2.8)S.W. of Montreal today that was felt all the way in NY state, but not by me.

I realize the earth’s always moving and shaking to a degree, but seems like a lot.

They say that the Texas ones have something to do with the oil extraction.
 

Rose Karuna

Childless Crazy Cat Lady
VVO Supporter 🍦🎈👾❤
Joined
Sep 24, 2018
Messages
2,239
Location
Central Florida
SL Rez
2005
Joined SLU
2007
Never knew about these moths but I'm pretty sure that I've seen them before and just didn't know what they were. I think I mistook them for bumble bees. Anyhow, they are pretty cute and really good for your garden if you can attract them.

 

Isabeau

Merdeuse
Joined
Sep 20, 2018
Messages
7,948
Location
Montréal


From the link:

”Pictured here are gigantic jets shooting up from a thunderstorm in June toward the Himalayan Mountains in China and Bhutan.

The composite image captured four long jets that occurred only minutes apart. Gigantic jets, documented only in this century, are a type of lightning discharge that occurs between some thunderstorms and the Earth's ionosphere high above them.

They are an unusual type of lightning that is much different from regular cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning. The bottoms of gigantic jets appear similar to a cloud-to-above strike called blue jets, while the tops appear similar to upper-atmosphere red sprites.

Although the mechanism and trigger that cause gigantic jets remains a topic of research, it is clear that the jets reduce charge imbalance between different parts of Earth's atmosphere.”

Image: Li Xuanhua

https://imgur.com/ gallery/Ch2JmSD
 

Argent Stonecutter

Emergency Mustelid Hologram
Joined
Sep 20, 2018
Messages
6,301
Location
Coonspiracy Central, Noonkkot
SL Rez
2005
Joined SLU
Sep 2009
SLU Posts
20780
  • 1Interesting
  • 1Thanks
Reactions: Govi and Cindy Claveau

Cindy Claveau

Radical Left Degenerate
Joined
Sep 21, 2018
Messages
2,880
Location
US
SL Rez
2005
Joined SLU
June 2007
SLU Posts
44403
Broken link? Was it supposed to be this?

Fixed, thanks. I had Beebo's tardigrades in my head when I first saw the picture. But some people's web pages do not easily lend themselves to external links.
 

Amelia Freund

New member
Joined
Sep 23, 2018
Messages
146
Joined SLU
10 Sep 2007
SLU Posts
1040


From the link:

”Pictured here are gigantic jets shooting up from a thunderstorm in June toward the Himalayan Mountains in China and Bhutan.

The composite image captured four long jets that occurred only minutes apart. Gigantic jets, documented only in this century, are a type of lightning discharge that occurs between some thunderstorms and the Earth's ionosphere high above them.

They are an unusual type of lightning that is much different from regular cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning. The bottoms of gigantic jets appear similar to a cloud-to-above strike called blue jets, while the tops appear similar to upper-atmosphere red sprites.

Although the mechanism and trigger that cause gigantic jets remains a topic of research, it is clear that the jets reduce charge imbalance between different parts of Earth's atmosphere.”

Image: Li Xuanhua

https://imgur.com/ gallery/Ch2JmSD