OK I’ll bow on the 5 or 10, my memory speeds up the past, but I got the “Some kid” reference from a decent science programme, possibly the Space programme headed by the Manc lad who was a singist/organ player in D-ream. Positive that ordinary lads were taking a street picture at night and by a million to 1 chance they caught the vertical plume of lightning in the background. Which they asked NASA to explain…which then lead to NASA to look for it from the Shuttle.

We’ll have to agree to differ, then, as my information came directly from a professional meteorologist and avid storm-chaser.

Talking of singists…where’s PMN?

Search me, mate.

He’s a cracking bass player, but you really don’t want him to sing! 😮

Behave yourselves! 😡

Anyway…. it’s a woman wearing a headscarf and a white cardigan standing with her back to the camera.

it’s very ironic you use that argument , as it was recently discovered the original calculation to determine earths weight ….waaaass

wait for it !!!!

wrong

and it had to be re calculated

Given that the original calculation was made by one Nevil Maskeyne in 1774 it’s not all that much of a surprise, really.

Is this your coat, Kabir?

And, it was only 5 or 10 years ago that it was discovered lightning, called Jet Lightning or Lightning Jets, goes UP from the clouds, dozens of miles. So flying over a storm is not as safe as you think it is. NASA has pictures but some kid in USA had better ones, it was his pictures which forced NASA to look in the 1st place!

Hmmm, not sure I agree with the “some kid” story.

There are three currently-known types of “upwards lightning”.

“Blue Jets” were first photographed on 21 October 1989 from a space shuttle passing over huge storms in Australia.

“Sprites” were first recorded on 6 July 1989 by researchers from the University of Minnesota.

“Elves” were first photographed over French Guiana on 7 October 1990, also from a space shuttle.

All three types have, therefore, been known to meteorologists for at least 20 years, not “5 to 10”.

DID SOMEBODY CALL FOR ME?

Ah, I see I was correct. 🙂

Ahem……. http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=107020&page=5

And stop being paranoid.

Of course it’s word for word…somebody copied the book into Wiki!

It must have been that pesky Bill Door….. 😎