ScienceCasts: Dark Lightning

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Researchers studying thunderstorms have made a surprising discovery: The lightning we see with our eyes has a dark competitor that discharges storm clouds and flings antimatter into space. Astrophysicists and meteorologists are scrambling to understand "dark lightning."

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[jenny lynn]

Can we stop "mytery-afying" natural phenomena?  "Dark lightning" IS plasma phenomena in dark mode, not some strange new matter.

[Fernando Machado]

exactly what u said. i really got shocked when i receive my ipad3 without paying a dime @ my home yesterday. Listen, email and your address is enough to get your iphone 5. i found it here >-> bit.ly/17Q8ZsW?=wntvx

[wartpigx]

Power source. calling it now. give it 100 years. lol

[gooberdan1]

My mind was just blown

[LMO MechTech]

Must be hell to know so much as to take the wonder out of something exciting to real people. You should applaud yourself and then get back to your mundane, unexciting existence...so sad...

[RoyalHardware CrewMacedonia]

Does that mean that somehow we can try to create our own, lab-made antimatter?

That would be great, the rocket fuel idea will be tested and maybe, somewhere in the future we will create a spaceship capable of going in the deep space. All of that allowed with the antimatter fusion.

[CoolHardLogic]

What's the connection between "Dark Lightning" and sprites, if any?

[arkivx0]

How can we harness this.