Comments on: Boss Byproducts: Fulgurites Are Fossilized Lightning

By: The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren

The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:31:30 +0000

In reply to Steven-X. I asked my wife if she had seen the movie, she hadn't. So, I looked up the Wikipedia synopsis, meh!

By: abjq

abjq — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:04:43 +0000

In reply to Garth. They must have been pretty decomposed after several years had passed.

By: KDawg

KDawg — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:48:02 +0000

In reply to Garth. yea a lot of people do it on wood too, its stupid dangerous even if you used to working with high voltages, most people are just normals trying to make something artsy and lots have been injured or killed

By: Garth

Garth — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:40:20 +0000

There are several artists that create the “lightning in acrylic pieces” using high voltage. This is not quite a fulgurite but is kind of a simulation of what a ground strike could cause. However, this is a dangerous hobby as a DIY’er artist couple were found dead several years ago from electrocution.

Since it is logical that the usual cloud-to-ground lightening strikes creates fulgurites….I wonder does ground-to-cloud lightening create them as well ?

I remember a research article on ancient fulgurites that showed lightning was more intense millions of years ago.

By: Garth

Garth — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:27:38 +0000

In reply to Aaron Michael Brandt.

TL;DW – Too long Didn’t Watch. Didn’t feel like fast forwarding to find the fulgurite part. Would have been nice if you would have posted “FF to hh:mm in the video for the fulgurite part”.

By: ewlie

ewlie — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:06:24 +0000

I’ve just realised that what I thought was petrified wood was could have been fulgarites. Some bits i believe really were petrified wood, but the majority probably fulgarites.
Interesting. Thanks.

P.S. Why Farenheit, can we stick to SI units?

John

By: Rabs

Rabs — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:46:13 +0000

In reply to ono. How old is your cat???!!!