The only people for me are the mad ones - the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
- Jack Kerouac
I'm Julie. 23, formerly of Denton, Texas. Co-creator of the "Exasperated Rory" meme. I'm a horribly rabid Whovian. I also love Pokemon, various other video games, the weather, cosplay, taking pictures, painting pictures, and hanging pictures on the wall.
Meteorological Phenomena
Bowties are cool. So are stetsons and fezzes, but that's an entirely different story!
“The upward branching in this photo shows that the Eiffel Tower actually initiated the discharge,” says lightning researcher Richard Blakeslee of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. “In other words, instead of starting in the cloud and coming to ground, this flash started when the tower ‘launched’ a leader that propagated upward toward the cloud (which still served as the source of the electric field needed to get the process going). As the leader ascended, it branched out. Eventually one of the branches reached a region of sufficient charge to ‘short out the cloud’ and produce the return stroke pictured above.”According to Martin Uman’s classic text The Lightning Discharge, upward-initiated discharges are “relatively rare,” accounting for less than 1% of all lightning, “and generally occur from mountain tops and tall man-made structures.”Picture by Hakim AtekOh suuuuuuuure, blame the French!!! :-)
(via thearcanetheory)
