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TODAYS BLACK HOLE LINK, is coming here again...something wrong....

Er....guess it is a BLACK HOLE LINK......LOL...pulled me over here.

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WHOA, That is awesome :D

No apod makes me happier than one with both lightning and a volcano... talk about a triple whammy when you throw in some stars. :mrgreen:

My all-time favorite: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120730.html

A terrible beauty is born (Yeats)

This is an amazing picture. Mr. Rietze's "alien landscapes" website offers many more photos and videos. But I couldn't find any information about how far he was from the volcano to get these images. Some pictures like this one are close-ups but others show the whole mountain, so he much have been quite a distance away. Anyway I guess you wouldn't want to get too close to an erupting volcano, unless you're [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Randall_Truman]Harry R. Truman[/url].

[quote="Tszabeau"]This great photgragh makes me wonder if lightening occurs on the sun during it's outbursts. I recall the video of a "plasma rain" but don't recall any lightening.[/quote]
Lightning occurs when large charge transfers heat a mainly neutral gas, ionizing it along the path the charge moves along. The Sun is a plasma body, where the gases are already ionized. Certainly, there must be some massive charge transfers occurring at times, but no lightning.

I think I see Benshaming Furankuran flying his rakkaku dako up on the mountain side. Probably my imagination. :D

This great photgragh makes me wonder if lightening occurs on the sun during it's outbursts. I recall the video of a "plasma rain" but don't recall any lightening.

Awesome phenomena! 8-) :D

It is VOLCANUS the volcano monster, with its Lightning Eye, and headed for Tokyo. But LOOK, in the distance, is coming, GODZILLA, to fight the fiery, gas and dust enshrouded monster......Oh....SORRY....been watching my Godzilla movies again.....sorry....


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[quote="Beyond"]WOW!! Ya won't find anything like that on mars :!: :no:[/quote]


Well not any longer, Beyond. just think about being there at Olympus Mons, back when it was going off, and seeing it from space, or another high mountain, so you would have a better view. Must have been spectacular...or at least, I imagine it so...

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Dust in a wheat or sugar silo can spark and cause an explosion and fire. It has happened.

So, roiling dust and gases rising quickly may produce the same phenomena, I have no doubt.

Nice Picture.

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WOW!! Ya won't find anything like that on mars :!: :no:

[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130311.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_130311.jpg[/img] [size=150]Sakurajima Volcano with Lightning[/size][/url]

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