April 15, 2008

at Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Labels: Posted by Billy

By shooting high-powered laser pulses at a thundercloud, a team of European scientist triggered electrical activity in the cloud. Not only is this cool, but it may aid in the study of lightning for future scientific applications. The generated lightning traveled only in the clouds, though, as their laser was too weak to channel it to the earth.

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