Astronomy Cast Ep. 424: Lightning
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Join +Fraser Cain and +Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! Astronomy Cast Ep. 424: Lightning It turns out that nature figured out how to use electricity long before humans did. Lightning storms are common across the Earth, and even the Solar System. What causes this electricity in the sky, and how can science use it?
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I listen to you guys all the time on the Podcast app and its nice to tune in and put a face to a voice! Looking forward to listening to many more interesting, engaging podcasts from you guys :)
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Dying is bad. Makes sense! LOL ;-)
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Hey Fraser. is this annoying loss of the bottom 20% of the screen permanent?
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Thundersnow!
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Didn't you just place (33min into your video) an absolute speed for a given position in the universe ?
What happened to relativity ? -
So I do have one other comment/question: Ep. #311 DID deal with the overall concept of sound, and how it might be different in different media, but it never really got into how sound would be different on different planets & in different atmospheres. I for one am super-curious to hear (aha!) what sound would be like someplace like Neptune. Not only is the atmosphere very different from Earth's, but like all the gas giants it differs greatly within itself with altitude.
Also, how does the term "speed of sound" even relate to an atmosphere like Neptune's, where winds are measured over 1,000 kph? Or on Venus where even a surface wind of say 3 kph has the force of moving water on Earth?
Anyway, if you're looking for episode topics, it seems like there's definitely more ground that could be covered regarding sound and it's applications to astronomy... and on a purely selfish note the propagation of thunder on distant gas giants sounds like an awesome podcast to me! -
It's like your tag line now: "Welcome to the boring part of the show." Anymore, I don't feel like I've actually watched an episode until I hear this. ^_^
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I am not the first viewer, and yet this IS the first comment, and in honour of that I would just like to say,....FOURTH!! Oh bugger.....
Btw, IMO "explodatious" sounds better than "explodey".
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