I’m just curious during thunderstorm, if anyone tried to fire a bullet during storm into clouds? Will the lightning strike the bullet? Mythbusters or someone else maybe did that ?
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I don’t know about bullets, but laser beams seem to work: https://www.sci.news/physics/laser-guided-lightning-11572.html
Laser beams ionize particles in the air . Ionized particles are conductive. As they are lined up, they form a path.
Lightning laser gun when?
The shooter will cause himself to be struck. Easier ways to get electrocuted
Remote laser cannon.
Lass sentry?
2004
If there were a wire tied to the back of it. It’s been done with rockets.
If there were a wire tied to the back of it, it wouldn’t even reach it.
Bravo!
Just saying…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/08/florida-gun-owners-encouraged-shoot-storm-fire-guns-hurricane/
Seems like someone is doing a whole lotta smiteing in the Bible belt. That surely can’t be a sign.
Hurricanes usually don’t produce much lightning at all. We get way more during a regular afternoon thunderstorm.
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No. Lightning happens when charge builds up. When it gets big enough relative to how much resistance there is to the ground, it manages to ionize the air, creating a pathway for the charge to flow to/from ground and neutralizing it. The metal in the bullet would likely be a better conductor than air (less resistance), but it is absolutely miniscule and these things happen on an enormous scale. There would also need to be a near-critical charge there already - a lightning strike “waiting to happen”. Charge keeps building in a thunderstorm, so basically it’d just happen a moment later anyway at “best”, if you magically managed to fire a bullet at the right time and location to make a critical difference in resistance.
In order to force a lightning strike you need to bring the charged particles closer together, increase conductivity of the air or increase the amount of charged particles. If a bullet can do any of this, it may cause a lightning strike
It seems plausible that the vapor trail of changing air pressure behind a bullet could create a momentary channel of increased conductivity and/or particle density as air rushes back into the void created by the passing projectile. I wonder if the effect is persistent enough to enable a static discharge all along the path though.
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Wrong thread.
? No I think it’s the right thread
Both my comment (Obama gif) and the person you replied to were replying to someone that posted in the wrong thread. They have since deleted their comment, leaving our comments without a parent comment. Lemmy has now randomly assigned our comments to different parent comments. Actually kind of interesting.
Annoying bug. Some komd of memory leak.
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