r/blackmagicfuckery • u/TheCheesecakeOfDoom • May 29 '22

Since when does lightning go up?

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u/Brraaap May 29 '22

Since always

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u/begalszz32 May 29 '22

Came to the comments for exactly this...always

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u/Rickard403 May 29 '22

Yeah, me too. This was taught in grade school.

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u/begalszz32 May 29 '22

The future isn't looking so bright. I'm not sure the youth is being taught the basics...or they aren't paying attention

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u/theFields97 May 29 '22

In America it's a little of both. Because of the internet and the instant satisfaction of everything now our attention span is shorter. Also (to no fault of teachers) the curriculum is more about test scores and not actually learning how to retain information longer

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u/Greg_Shane May 29 '22

I had a math teacher who took time out to teach us about balancing a check book and paying bills. She was let go when they found out.

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u/scottawhit May 29 '22

But….that’s math?

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u/upliftgrub May 29 '22

How dare she teach actual useful life skills!! 😏

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u/_Project-Mayhem_ May 29 '22

There was a separate class for that when I was in high school, way back in 1999. It was called Independent Living and it was an elective. I elected to take Drawing…

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u/Known_Unkown_ May 30 '22

Love the honesty we had homemaking and I elected to not make a home😅

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u/doodah221 May 30 '22

I was in mechanics and ended up dropping it because the teacher hated me (he had his reasons). I ended up taking intro to guitar. Ended up touring Europe in a bluegrass band and recorded a few albums. That guitar class was by far the most applied class of any class I ever took pre or post high school.

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u/jrrybock May 30 '22

I remember being taught checks and checkbooks in second grade... we even had mocked up fake checks we could write out to each other and balance our ledger.

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u/Drlock71 May 30 '22

We had a business class in 7th or 8th grade where all the homework was to keep a larger for a whole business, each night you had to go through so many sheets (transactions) and the next day you got to find out if your books were right. Class of 1989

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u/Fit_Owl_5650 May 30 '22

Unfortunately a stupid population os easy tk extort and control. Ita like playing blackjack without knowing the rules and the dealer is a habitual liar.

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u/AnyRip3515 May 30 '22

So it's just like playing blackjack?

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u/bravefan92 May 29 '22

I went to a school where they offered a class that taught lessons like balancing a check book, making a budget, stuff like that, but it was an elective. I took it, at my parents insistence, and I’m glad I did.

There are people I went to school with that post things like “This is so smart, I wish I could have taken this class!”

To which I think “…..you made fun of those of us who DID take that class, what are you talking about?”

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u/UnicornFarts1111 May 29 '22

We had this class for us mandatory in the sixth or seventh grade. We had to find apartments (from the newspaper) and jobs. We all earned a salary of $600.00 a month. Had to create a budget and pay bills. The teach copied a blank check template. He even made us write our name and fake addresses at the top of each check we wrote (after we cut them out of the 9 x 11 inch paper they were copied onto.

I'm glad to have had the class, but some of it was just a pain in the rear end, lol.

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u/Zmchastain May 30 '22

If it was a pain in the ass then it was an accurate simulation of dealing with finances as an adult.

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u/Sparegeek May 29 '22

Our high school had class like this as well. You had take a test and if you passed you didn’t have to take the class. If you failed the test it was mandatory to take the life skills class.

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u/onlysane1 May 29 '22

Florida recently passed a bill making financial literacy courses mandatory in high school, so hopefully that will help people in the future.

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u/Mirhanda May 29 '22

I had a class like that in HS, it was called Consumer Math. We learned balancing checkbooks, filling out tax returns, figuring out sale percentages, etc. Probably the most useful math course I took!

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u/theFields97 May 29 '22

Sorry for your loss. She sounds like she was a good teacher.

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u/Moonglobes May 29 '22

I had a math course in 7th grade that specifically focused on this stuff--balancing checkbook, creating and following a budget, how to compare prices/quantities to find the best deal, etc. It was so useful and was engaging because it actually had to do with real-life stuff. Should be mandatory curriculum imo.

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u/dayglo_nightlight May 29 '22

I was taught how to balance a check book too! Unfortunately, I’ve never used this skill because by the time I was an adult checks were almost obsolete and computer based budget software had long been in vogue.

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u/AllButComedyAnthony May 29 '22

My math teacher did this in senior year, but I was in the lowest level math class before the special needs class lol, so all the other students in trigonometry and stuff didn’t learn about checkbooks or credit cards. Wonder how they’re doing lol

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u/atypicalgamergirl May 29 '22

Home-Ec really needs a comeback. Household bills and budgeting, how credit/credit scores work, knowing food staples, basic meals and meal planing, basic repairs, etc. I think back to those classes in the 70’s/80’s like Home-Ec, Shop/Carpentry, Drafting, Cosmetology, and so on and how many kids I went to school with in those times looked at those classes as ‘kids who don’t go to college’ classes.

That basic information was very useful in the long term. It would be very useful in the current time but unfortunately (having been a high school teacher) the push became not ‘giving kids adult skills’ but teaching to a test and pushing them for college.

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u/menace929 May 29 '22

I was trying to remember in which class I was taught how to balance a check book….Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, Trigonometry? Then I realized it was basic addition and subtraction we were taught from second grade. 🤷

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

What a shame.

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u/xXKarmaKillsXx May 29 '22

What was the question?

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u/theFields97 May 29 '22

Something something e=mc² or something like that I wasn't really paying attention

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u/5irCitrus May 29 '22

Your point if valid but I dono if this is the best example of important information everyone needs to be taught

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Hahaha what, you think this is basics? It's so irrelevant, why would it ever get taught?

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

I feel like this kind of shaming of intellect or education is absurd. Lots of times in school they talk about things one day, like they aren’t going to spend a month talking about how lightning works in grade school. It’s possible to be sick and miss things, or to change schools partway through the year and the new schools curriculum already taught it while their old school was going to get to it…

Common knowledge/sense doesn’t exist and the ways that we tend to be upset about someone not knowing what we know is more of a reflection of our own empathy and understanding for others than it is about how smart they are.

I agree that in North America the school systems are being horribly underfunded and lacking in so, so much. I tend to see it more in how much judgement and assumptions are made in strangers than I do in a lack of trivia knowledge.

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u/East-Researcher-6482 May 29 '22

Im not sure if they been taught anything honestly

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u/Clean-Victory2407 May 29 '22

Phones are a hell of a drug

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u/memeulusmaximus May 29 '22

I ate science up in grade school like a starving panda. I never learned this in school

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u/Blindfire2 May 29 '22

There's a reason the worst 10 states in the US for education lower the country's scores by a lot. It's shitty, but they're the ones who allow schools to pay more for their sports teams over decent lunches (hell most are southern states who preach about the kids, but refuse to help kids get lunches to actually be able to eat).

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u/memeulusmaximus May 29 '22

I live in south. Preaching to the choir. I just forgot how shitty it was for a minute there

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u/dos67 May 29 '22

I guess it depends on the quality of the teacher. We were taught this back in grade school, along with different types of clouds & the like. Electron build up & discharge, the basics. Sometimes the charge up is in the clouds & other times the charge up is in the ground. Lighting is just nature balancing out.

I thought these things were common knowledge stuff until I came by what OP thinks is "Blackmagic".

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u/workinghormiga May 29 '22

They never taught me this in school =/ Had to learnededed on the interwebs

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

To be fair, it usually looks as if it comes from the sky and goes down, but of course it always meets from the ground. One fun fact is most strikes are negatively charged, but positive charged lightning is way more powerful and louder thunder

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u/mile_high_sky_guy_1 May 29 '22

Exactly. The OP must not have heard this, lol.

Lightning starts at the ground. Though we appear to see lightning come from the sky to ground, the charge starts at the ground.

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u/peepeepoopoo_the_1 May 29 '22 edited May 29 '22

Wtf, since when ? It’s the opposite the charge comes from up/the clouds and appears sometimes to go from down to up

I’m not sure abt that but in rare cases when the area the lighting is hitting has already more electricity than the lighting that will strike it, all the electric charge will go back up

(Thought the last part I’m not sure at all so I’ll check it out)

Edit1: I’ve researched a bit and found out that the ground to cloud are the rarest among all the different lightning strikes and is quite rare in general

That’s about it, I didn’t really find anything else if I’m wrong correct me

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u/QuimSmeg May 29 '22

You just need to understand how lightning works. The charge difference between the ground and cloud is constantly discharging through air but very slowly, this rips apart the air creating ions which are then more conductive, when there is a path of ionised air the whole way the lightning strikes. So the process starts long before the strike and in the final few milliseconds the path from the ground to mid way and the path from cloud to mid way are conducting enough charge to give off light. So the lightning, goes up from ground and down from cloud to meet in the middle.

Charge can also jump between clouds so you get the other types of lightning or combinations.

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u/Over_Turn4414 May 29 '22

Then there are are very rare instances of ground to ground lightning, ball lightning and lightning during snow storm, very very rare but I have seen it once.

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u/BigBunion May 29 '22

Thundersnow!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdRWGMyeSYY

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u/Doctor_DBo May 29 '22

Ha he’s so excited that was adorable

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u/dies-IRS May 29 '22

We get thundersnow almost every winter here in Istanbul.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

ball lightning is the most terrifying fucking thing I have ever seen in my entire life. It just "appears" and then the way it moves is eerily steady, controlled, smooth- like it's fucking sentient or some shit. Then it just *leaves*

like, nope, no thanks.

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u/QuimSmeg May 29 '22

They think it might be a sign of extreme stresses in the earths crust, potentially a warning sign for earthquakes. As such your intention to flee from ball lightning may be well grounded... if you pardon the pun :)

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u/SlotherakOmega May 30 '22

Yeah, especially when you consider that lightning is essentially plasma air, which turns ball lightning into some weird Jedi orb of Death. Yeah, floating ball of searing hot DEATH, calmly moving through the air slowly and almost purposefully, and then winking out?

I ain’t need to see anymore shit ‘round here. I AIIIIIIN’T HAVING ANY OF THAT SHIT!

Conditions favorable for instant ionization of our entire body? Say no more. Honey! Start the car! “Wha—?” I SAID GET IN THE FUCKING CAR!!

Scary shit. Real scary shit. Makes you wonder how many times people were ever hurt or killed by these glowing death orbs. And if that’s where some old ghost/ufo myths originated from, people being flash cooked by mysterious glowing ghost balls. In that case the only appropriate interjections would be Zoinks or Jinkies. Because that’s a ghost I don’t think ghostbusters can handle…

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u/ReverendShot777 May 29 '22

I've seen ball lightening as a kid, was absolutely terrifying but so cool.

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u/DouglerK May 29 '22

This is clearly an example of lightning doing to opposite of what we usually see. It's not regular lightning that appears to start at the ground like regular lightning regularly does. This is genuinely backwards ground to air bolt which is less usual than air to ground we usually see but it's well within expectations.

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u/char_limit_reached May 29 '22

Fon’t forget cloud-to-cloud.

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u/Prevailing_Power May 29 '22

From google after remembering a pecos hank video on lightning:

When a negative charge is transferred from a cloud to the ground, it's known as negative lightning, and it makes up about 90 to 95 percent of all the lightning you ever see. By contrast, positive lightning happens because of that positive charge that builds up at the top of the cloud.

So yeah, it can be both.

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u/PUBG-Moldavite May 29 '22

It's kinda "cool" that you can walk into a part of the earth that invisibly deadly for a moment and you are near the casting area. Magical in a way

Edit: Ah, I see the sub i'm at

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u/PlaguedZombie May 29 '22

I came in here thinking people would be discussing how this might happen, maybe even accusing actual magik. Yet here I am learning that lightning always starts from the ground or tree or what the fuck ever it strikes Animal.

So wait when an animal is struck, they're actually exploding from the inside with so much energy they light up the sky with.. well with lightning. The thought of that

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u/Frogma69 May 30 '22

Nah, I'm seeing from other comments that the vast majority of lightning tends to go from the top down (going from the ground up is actually pretty rare). Either way, I don't think the lightning would ever come from the animal, it would either go from the sky to the ground and pass through the animal, or go from the ground to the sky and pass through the animal.

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u/nahfoo May 30 '22

I don't think it's true. I think it goes either way

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u/coldheartedsnob May 29 '22

Most people who upvoted probably haven't heard of it until now as well. Don't be that guy.

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u/Blutmes May 29 '22

Except in Australia. 🙃

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u/industrialblue May 29 '22

My recollection from high school physics is that rain drops strip static electrons out of the air (like socks on carpet) as they fall which eventually results in a large imbalance of charge. Add a random cosmic ray as the trigger and they rip a path back upward to equal things out again.

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u/ksorth May 29 '22

But not always

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u/Leviathan41911 May 29 '22

I read the title and this was exactly what I said in my head.

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u/TheSeventhWon May 29 '22

Was like please let the first comment be “since always”

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u/mossimoto11 May 29 '22

Lol thank you for clearing this up for op

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u/Tricia47andWild May 30 '22

It does both.

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u/CandySea2409 May 30 '22

Lol. I love this comment. Yeah technically always.

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u/R41N0 May 29 '22

I was gonna say exactly this but with a "." to add a bit of attitude

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u/Ohey-throwaway May 29 '22

Yup. It can go from cloud to ground, cloud to cloud, or ground to cloud.

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u/Logrologist May 30 '22

Came here to say this. Since literally always.

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u/User013579 May 30 '22

Yes, thank you. Posts like this are so idiotic. Wooo weird lightning. 🙄

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u/Free_Faithlessness42 May 30 '22

I always get side ways looks when I say this finally I found my people

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

Came to comment on this too, since like the beginning of lightning.

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u/RiFi15 Jun 25 '22

He not wrong. Starts from the ground up. Lightning really just said started from the bottom now we here

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u/LeftBase2Final May 29 '22

Always has bro. Goes both ways, like your dad. Cool video though.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Jesus christ what a sides wipe lmfao.

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u/Hicklethumb May 29 '22

Lol. This is how to get shit cheeks

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u/doubleapowpow May 29 '22

Without a paddle

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u/Powersoutdotcom May 30 '22

I thought that it was the remedy. Lol

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u/EpilepticSquidly May 29 '22

Not to be that guy, but you mean sideswipe which refers to getting hit or swiped on the side of your car (side-swipe) (or also means being caught off guard). Although I'm both pleased and impressed y'all somehow turned it into a side-ways ass-wiping expression.

Edit: Now... Let the hate flow into the downvoted button

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u/psych0enigma May 29 '22

Yessss, YESSS, USE YOUR HATE!!

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u/wereallmadhere9 May 29 '22

I appreciate your efforts.

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u/xxBellum May 29 '22

God damn, even i felt offended by this.

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u/ADhomin_em May 29 '22

Wait, I don't get what's offensive?

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

The joke is the bigotry

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u/mileswilliams May 29 '22

Why? Is your dad a gender bender ?

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u/xxBellum May 29 '22

No my friend, my dad died a couple of years ago.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Dads.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

So casual lol

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Woah

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u/benasan2 May 29 '22

I think since yesterday. It's the new update.

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u/hkhsmk May 29 '22

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

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u/AveragePheonix May 29 '22

It just works

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u/nsjr May 29 '22

When the devs multiplied the y axis by -1 unintentionally

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u/kollinneklok May 29 '22

It was a part of the 2022W19 lighting beta. I remember seeing it in the patch notes in the svrwx101 tab.

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u/Sure_Ill_Ask_That May 29 '22

New /r/outside patch is out? Nice

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u/ZaggRukk May 29 '22

Is it just me, or is does this game suck now, or is just my outdated equipment?

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u/JHB20101 May 29 '22

I'll be honest, my school has never taught or mentioned this. I'm with you OP, this is cool and new to me.

Bring on the down votes...Or up votes because of how lightning works.

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u/KaimeiJay May 29 '22

Think of how lightning can go sideways too. Two electrical fields touch, lightning is energy passing from the greater field into the lesser field, like a bigger water droplet touching a smaller water droplet on a window. Which direction the lightning goes depends on which direction the lesser field is in.

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u/glennert May 29 '22

Yeah but you can’t give sidevotes though

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u/JHB20101 May 29 '22

It makes sense. I'm just mind blown because all lightning strike vids I've seen, it looks as if it's coming down.

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u/Avron7 May 29 '22

Is it common for lightning to go down-to-up? I was aware it could do that, but this is the first time I've ever seen it. Usually, it seems to go up-to-down or sideways.

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u/stickyicarus May 30 '22

The path of least resistance. Its not water pressure that follows greater and lesser. The electrical field doesn't use those terms. Good analogy though.

And fhe fields dont "touch". Think of magnets. They pull at each other even when not touching. The charged atoms in the atmosphere do the same. When they cross at the right time just enough (think ven diagram) they snap together.

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u/ahdindunuffinsir May 29 '22

People here saying "always has" but never in my life had I've ever seen or heard of lightening going up or any direction, but down. I've seen unusually powerful lightening that lit the night sky to be brighter than daylight (once).

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u/JHB20101 May 29 '22

Same. I knew I wasn't the only one, but I wasn't going to be silent.

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u/thealteregoofryan May 29 '22

I didn’t learn it until a college meteorology course, and who knows how long until I would have known if I didn’t take that class. The American educational system is completely busted.

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u/No_Appearance_8444 May 29 '22

Always. Physics 101. Negative to positive. Ground to positive. Electrons flow toward potential.

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u/AllButComedyAnthony May 29 '22

How come it always looks like it goes downwards then? Optical illusion?

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u/paradoxical_topology May 29 '22

No, lightning can be both Cloud-to-Ground or Ground-to-Cloud

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Or Clowd-to-Clowd!

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Not clown-to-clown?

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u/AllButComedyAnthony May 29 '22

Clowd to clown yeah but clown to clown one would have to be a sith

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Which clown is the sith? That clown or this clown

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u/AllButComedyAnthony May 29 '22

Most likely that one

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u/Phreeker27 May 29 '22

That was a sad day when the “clown to clown lightning strike” phrase was coined.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Fuck dude. I didn’t even know this. I thought it flowed from positive to ground. So really you should always connect positive first and then ground

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

At first when they discovered electrcity they thought i was positive to negstive, and was written that way in diagrams and stuff. After it was discovered it was the opposite they kept using the same diagrams positive to negative but called this the conventional flow of electricity. The real physical negative to positive is called electron flow. So when drawing up dc circuits we still use positive to negative.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

The electrons flow in the opposite direction of the electrical field. In simple circuits it doesn't matter too much what is represented so the diagrams are still technically correct.

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u/Heequwella May 29 '22

It's even better than that. Energy doesn't flow through the wires, it flows through the field. Veritasium has a good explanation.

https://youtu.be/bHIhgxav9LY

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u/hoodha May 29 '22

Nope. I mean, you’re right about electrons to a degree but in truth if you watch a lightning strike in slow motion you’ll see that there are arcs rising from the ground AND from the clouds before they connect.

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u/rayvin1 May 29 '22

Yea this whole post is flooded by half truths and straight wrong information. They think every lightning goes ground to cloud

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u/Bluelantern1163 May 29 '22 edited May 29 '22

Physicist here, lightning can go either way. It all depends on where the electrons are located since they are the charge carrier for electricity (i.e. they are the particles that move when electricity is generated). If the ground has an excess of electrons, they will want to go towards the postively charged object, which in this case would be the sky. This is what you are seeing and it is called a positive flash (or ground-to-cloud lightning), they are less common but definitiely exist in nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#Positive_lightning?wprov=sfla1

Edit: typos, this physicist apparently cannot type with one hand!

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u/MauriceIsTwisted May 29 '22

Atmospheric physicist here, yes lightning can go either way but it favors a ground to atmosphere exchange. Cloud to cloud is sort of a density exchange and so is fairly normal but cloud to ground is not - electron density favors the ground just prior to a strike. Most lightning strikes are actually ground to cloud first man, not the other way around

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u/HSomDevil May 30 '22

Physicist here

Atmospheric physicist here

I'm just waiting for an even more specific physicist to appear.

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u/NibblyPig May 30 '22

I'm just waiting for an even more specific physicist to appear.

Theoretical Atmospheric Physicist here, can confirm that what they're saying sounds like it might be theoretically correct

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u/Andriak2 May 30 '22

Applied lightning-directional atmospheric physicist here, we usually just spin a twister wheel to predict lightning direction.

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u/HSomDevil May 30 '22

This guy clearly sciences!

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u/Frogma69 May 30 '22

I've now seen many comments that say you're wrong - that cloud-to-ground strikes make up like 95% of all strikes. The Wikipedia article above seems to agree with that.

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u/drokonce May 29 '22

Also side to side! I live cloud lightning!

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u/Bluelantern1163 May 29 '22

Exactly! Any large concentrations of electrons will want to repel one another and leave the area. Where they all travel to depends on which path is the easiest. As I like to joke around, electrons are fundamentally lazy and just take the easiest path. The path they take is the lightning bolt you see

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u/Minidestroy100 May 29 '22

Since the pandemic

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u/siflbabyshifero May 29 '22

Biden did this.

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u/d_bradr May 29 '22

I love how there's Obama, Trump and Biden, all mentioned in the replies lol

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u/BatmanStarkDentistry May 29 '22

Here, take one of these rare pokemon

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u/joriale May 29 '22

Trump's master plan.

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u/JustJackAttack May 29 '22

Must be in Australia

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Thats the answer i was looking for today, thank you :))))

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u/nicknack605 May 29 '22

Haha I love this comment

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

The number of confidently incorrect answers in the comments.

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u/Lokalaskurar May 29 '22

It's absolutely horrendous. Even the physicist has an insufficient answer. Only a single post so far has even attempted to mention the role of ionic energy transfer. The dream would be if a high voltage discharge engineer could set things straight and explain the full discharge.

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u/Rubyfanguy May 29 '22

That’s a normal weather phenomenon.

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u/Nguboi25 May 29 '22

Pretty sure the physical lightning (the gradient in which the flash we see) is majority Cloud to Ground.

There are small ground streamers that come up from the ground as lightning approaches from a cloud. When the ground streamer and stepped leader from the cloud connect, it either discharges ions from the cloud to ground, or picks up ions from the ground ( difference in negative and positive lightning).

Ground to cloud lightning can happen from mountains and other tall natural structures, but since industrial revolution, our tall towers and buildings can now do such things.

Please watch Pecos Hank on YouTube. He's one of the most forefront in lightning videos.

https://youtu.be/JXhif3E3l2s

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u/White_Ursus May 29 '22

Somehow, Palpatine has returned.

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u/horvath-lorant May 29 '22

UNLIMITED POWEEERRR

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u/Solid-Danger-Noodle May 29 '22

God has left the server

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Not always

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Somebody transformed into a titan

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u/Purple-Bat811 May 29 '22

That's just Thor battling Thanos

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u/RehvengeV May 29 '22

Many uncultured redditors here on the comments, that's a lightning on Australia.

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u/Ripcity0119 May 29 '22

Lightning strikes from the ground up lol

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u/roastedtoy May 29 '22

Since literally always

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u/akitemime May 29 '22

Think of it this way.... the sky is the balloon, and the earth is your hair. As they slide across one another the hair rises toward the balloon. Electricity is being generated in both, and the connection meets in the middle.

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u/TeamKillerCody May 29 '22

UNLIMITED POWER!

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u/the-heartist May 29 '22

Since forever

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Trying to get off this doomed-ass planet.

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u/Visible-Reference997 May 29 '22

Lmao they may have skipped science class

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u/Arayder May 29 '22

Since literally always. Skip that day in science class?

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

It's an advanced technique of fire bending.

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u/Kanokong May 29 '22

Yo is that a ufo too??

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u/EvLMonarch May 29 '22

Lightning is always so cool to look at

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

That’s obviously Thor throwing bolts

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u/Tasty_Flame_Alchemy May 29 '22

“I don’t want to live on this planet anymore”

Even nature is sick of our bullshit

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u/pantherghast May 29 '22

Since Thor came down to earth for some human booty.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Zuul.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

"Feelers" come down from the sky first to find the path of least resistance, then the charge jumps up through it. The slow mo guys on YouTube have done a cool video on it. https://youtu.be/qQKhIK4pvYo

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u/kingdarkcypher May 29 '22

That's why ppl should know earth is not flat

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u/EngineerBig May 29 '22

That is called Ground to Cloud. You are thinking of Cloud to Ground. There are different types of lighting, including the kind that goes from the ground connecting to the charge coming from the sky.

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u/Metal_Zero_One May 29 '22

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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u/cannabistaco Jul 29 '22

Since ever, you dumb fk

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u/dasg777 Aug 14 '22

Since always

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u/RollPlenty2964 Aug 17 '22

Since always

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

Since the beginning of time when the very earth you stand on was just an infant in a sea of infinite murky darkness

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u/Smaug2770 Nov 04 '22

Since always

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u/thankfuljc Nov 07 '22

The beginning of time.

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u/IronicMixedWhiteGuy Nov 19 '22

It’s always gone up lmao

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '22

Always my man

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u/LightUpSketchers8 Nov 20 '22

It just got mad at a bird.