APOD: Red Sprite Lightning with Aurora (2013 May 22)

[DavidLeodis]

Thanks neufer and Chris for your replies.

You state Chris "These sprites are produced by thunderstorms that are a few hundred miles away- typically, over the horizon. If that isn't seeing a storm from the side, I don't know what is!". I did not know, which is why I was trying to seek help which you have given but I did not need what seems to be the condescensive tone.

Sorry, there was no intent to be condescending at all. The sentence was intended to be purely exclamatory.

Thanks Chris for your kind apology, which is appreciated. I do realise that without face to face contact it can be easy to create a wrong impression of what is being said.

[neufer]

You state Chris "These sprites are produced by thunderstorms that are a few hundred miles away- typically, over the horizon. If that isn't seeing a storm from the side, I don't know what is!". I did not know, which is why I was trying to seek help which you have given but I did not need what seems to be the condescensive tone.

Sorry, there was no intent to be condescending at all. The sentence was intended to be purely exclamatory.

Thanks Chris for your kind apology, which is appreciated. I do realise that without face to face contact it can be easy to create a wrong impression of what is being said.

I personally would never accuse Chris of being condescending
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CONDESCENDING, Yielding to inferiors; courteous; obliging.
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CONDESCEND, v.i. [F. condescendre, LL. condescendere, fr. L. con- + descendere.]

1. To descend from the privileges of superior rank or dignity, to do some act to an inferior, which strict justice or the ordinary rules of civility do not require. Hence, to submit or yield, as to an inferior, implying an occasional relinquishment of distinction.

2. To recede from ones rights in negotiation, or common intercourse, to do some act, which strict justice does not require.

3. To stoop or descend; to yield; to submit; implying a relinquishment of rank, or dignity of character, and sometimes a sinking into debasement.
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[Chris Peterson]

I personally would never accuse Chris of being condescending :!:
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CONDESCENDING, Yielding to inferiors; courteous; obliging.
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Quite so, I never feel obliged to yield to my inferiors (although I try to be polite). But you've provided an incomplete definition; my dictionary includes: to assume an air of superiority. I suspect that's the meaning David was seeing in my choice of words.

As an educator, I sometimes tread a fine line between assuming an air of superiority in a positive way, as we expect from a teacher, and coming off as a condescending jerk. Honestly, I never intend to sound like the latter, but as David quite correctly pointed out, in the absence of face-to-face communication, it can sometimes be difficult to read intent.

[neufer]

I personally would never accuse Chris of being condescending
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CONDESCENDING, Yielding to inferiors; courteous; obliging.
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Quite so, I never feel obliged to yield to my inferiors (although I try to be polite). But you've provided an incomplete definition; my dictionary includes: to assume an air of superiority. I suspect that's the meaning David was seeing in my choice of words.

As an educator, I sometimes tread a fine line between assuming an air of superiority in a positive way, as we expect from a teacher, and coming off as a condescending jerk. Honestly, I never intend to sound like the latter, but as David quite correctly pointed out, in the absence of face-to-face communication, it can sometimes be difficult to read intent.

• So... how high is Chili

[mjimih]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sprite
sprite also spright (sprt)
n.
1. A small or elusive supernatural being; an elf or pixie.
2. An elflike person.
3. A specter or ghost.
4. Archaic A soul. ???
5. Meteorology A large, dim, red flash that appears above active thunderstorms in conjunction with lightning.

Does it look like a ghost? uh sort of I guess. how did it get it's name?

[neufer]

Does it look like a ghost? uh sort of I guess. how did it get it's name?

• • The Tempest Act 2, Scene 2
  CALIBAN: These be fine things, an if they be not sprites.
  • That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor.
  • The Comedy of Errors Act 2, Scene 2
  DROMIO OF SYRACUSE: This is the fairy land: O spite of spites!
  • We talk with goblins, owls and sprites:
    If we obey them not, this will ensue,
    They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue.

[mjimih]

the letter i with it's red spiked dot above it looks strangely similar to the apod photo.



What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
- William Shakespeare

[bystander]

Rare Red Sprite Lightning Shows Up During Aurora
Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson | 2013 Jun 03

[i]Red sprite lightning appears in the sky with an aurora, as well as a distant thunderstorm, near Denison, Iowa on May 31, 2013.[/i] [url=http://www.extremeinstability.com/2013-5-31.htm][b][i]Credit and copyright: Mike Hollingshead, extremeinstability.com[/b][/i][/url]

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[geckzilla]

Haha, nice! Mike seems disappointed that he missed the world first by 11 days. I think I would be too.