Volcano + Lightning = Awesome Desktop
May 8, 2008 at 10:30 pm | In World News | 2 Comments
A few days ago, a previously dormant volcano in southern Chile for 9,000 years erupted. The eruption blasted liquified metal and lightning miles into the sky. The rare result, as pictured above, is referred to as a “dirty thunderstorm”. According to National Geographic, it’s “the result of rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the plume colliding to produce static charges—just as ice particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms.”
Other theories lay the blame on a pissed off Zeus, Sauron or the X-Men’s Storm. More pictures can be found at National Geographic News and Universe Today.
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Had this on Nerdrock too. This is what I imagine a biblical apocalypse would look like.
Comment by Tom — May 9, 2008 #
awesome pic love the computer drawings!!
Comment by cool girl — March 9, 2009 #