https://wordlesstech.com The future today in our amazing world Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:55:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 223030326 https://wordlesstech.com/lasers-vs-lightning-which-is-more-powerful/ https://wordlesstech.com/lasers-vs-lightning-which-is-more-powerful/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:55:14 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=205036 Lasers vs lightning. Which is more powerful?]]> https://wordlesstech.com/lasers-vs-lightning-which-is-more-powerful/feed/ 0 205036 https://wordlesstech.com/earths-rarest-lightning/ https://wordlesstech.com/earths-rarest-lightning/#respond Sat, 04 Jun 2022 16:35:41 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=178588 Earth’s rarest lightning finally caught on camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-SZryVqFHo [Youtube]  ]]> https://wordlesstech.com/earths-rarest-lightning/feed/ 0 178588 https://wordlesstech.com/life-on-earth-may-have-started-by-several-trillion-lightning-strikes/ https://wordlesstech.com/life-on-earth-may-have-started-by-several-trillion-lightning-strikes/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:46:36 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=172340 A new study suggests that lightning created an essential element available to organisms in habitable environments, on Earth and elsewhere. The search for life on other planets is a lot like cooking. “You can have all the ingredients in one place—water, a warm climate and thick atmosphere, the proper nutrients, organic material, and a source]]> https://wordlesstech.com/life-on-earth-may-have-started-by-several-trillion-lightning-strikes/feed/ 2 172340 https://wordlesstech.com/rare-blue-jet-lightning-viewed-from-the-space-station/ https://wordlesstech.com/rare-blue-jet-lightning-viewed-from-the-space-station/#respond Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:02:04 +0000 http://wordlesstech.com/?p=171184 In this video, an impression of lightning in clouds seen from Space Station followed by a blue flash, that lasts 10 micro seconds, and a blue jet lasting 400 milliseconds.  You can also see an elve that lasts for 30 microseconds, generated by the blue flash. The International Space Station solar panels are shown]]> https://wordlesstech.com/rare-blue-jet-lightning-viewed-from-the-space-station/feed/ 0 171184 https://wordlesstech.com/gigantic-jet-lightning-over-india/ https://wordlesstech.com/gigantic-jet-lightning-over-india/#respond Sun, 22 Sep 2019 13:56:13 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=162543 While flying from Munich to Singapore earlier this month, an industrious passenger took images of a passing lightning storm and caught something unexpected: gigantic jet lightning. Image credit Hung-Hsi Chang The jet was captured on a single 3.2-second exposure above Bhadrak, India. Although the gigantic jet appears connected to the airplane’s wing, it likely started]]> https://wordlesstech.com/gigantic-jet-lightning-over-india/feed/ 0 162543 https://wordlesstech.com/lightning-strikes-eiffel-tower/ https://wordlesstech.com/lightning-strikes-eiffel-tower/#respond Wed, 30 May 2018 09:13:04 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=151195 Watch in the video, a lightning striking Eiffel Tower during Paris storm. Cameras captured the impressive moment when a lightning strikes the top of the Eiffel Tower, 324 meters from the ground, on Monday morning.   [Youtube]  ]]> https://wordlesstech.com/lightning-strikes-eiffel-tower/feed/ 0 151195 https://wordlesstech.com/transient-lightning-footage/ https://wordlesstech.com/transient-lightning-footage/#respond Tue, 05 Dec 2017 07:33:10 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=146971 “Transient” is a compilation of the best shots from my storm chasing adventures of summer 2017. “Most of the lightning footage was captured in uncompressed raw at 1000 frames per second with our Phantom Flex4K. This summer I chased for over 30 days and traveled 20K miles. My respect and admiration for storm chasers became]]> https://wordlesstech.com/transient-lightning-footage/feed/ 0 146971 https://wordlesstech.com/lightning-near-irmas-eye-from-space/ https://wordlesstech.com/lightning-near-irmas-eye-from-space/#respond Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:42:46 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=144525 This animation from GOES-16’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (or GLM) shows the lightning from storms associated with Hurricane Irma. Of interest in this loop, in a period of more than 80 hours beginning at noon on September 4, 2017, September 9, is the lightning within Hurricane Irma itself, particularly around the eye of the storm. Hurricanes]]> https://wordlesstech.com/lightning-near-irmas-eye-from-space/feed/ 0 144525 https://wordlesstech.com/guy-captures-huge-lightning-striking-his-backyard/ https://wordlesstech.com/guy-captures-huge-lightning-striking-his-backyard/#respond Sun, 27 Aug 2017 09:43:51 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=143202 Guy captures huge lightning striking his backyard… Huge boom as lightning strikes five yards away from man, blowing a…]]> https://wordlesstech.com/guy-captures-huge-lightning-striking-his-backyard/feed/ 0 143202 https://wordlesstech.com/red-sprites-over-the-channel/ https://wordlesstech.com/red-sprites-over-the-channel/#respond Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:44:12 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=140326 These red sprites, dancing, lightning-like events were captured from a mountain top perch in northern France.   Image credit Stephane Vetter (Nuits sacrees, TWAN) Red sprites are seen to occur high above large thunderstorms on planet Earth. Taken during the night of May 28, the remarkably clear, unobstructed view looks toward a multicell storm system raging]]> https://wordlesstech.com/red-sprites-over-the-channel/feed/ 0 140326