Researchers Claim They Can Predict Where Lightning Is Likely To Strike (www.cbc.ca) 37
A study by researchers at the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering suggests it's possible to predict where lightning will strike and how often.They say satellite data and artificial intelligence can help foresee where lightning poses a greater risk to spark wildfires... "Those events don't just randomly happen," said Dr. Xin Wang, one of three researchers involved in the study. "They also have spatial and temporal patterns."
One of the paper's authors says their analysis can predict areas with a high chance of wildfires with an accuracy greater than 90%.
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No problem, as long as I get to choose the precision with which I specify the location.
-- Mr. Engineer
p.s. -- "the Earth"
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Jupiter has powerful storms, often accompanied by lightning strikes. The storms are a result of moist convection in the atmosphere connected to the evaporation and condensation of water. They are sites of strong upward motion of the air, which leads to the formation of bright and dense clouds. The storms form mainly in belt regions. The lightning strikes on Jupiter are hundreds of times more powerful than those seen on Earth, and are assumed to be associated with the water clouds.
That's easy... (Score:2)
When God looks down and sees that the men with the little dimply white balls are still out in the open playing that stupid game, He sends more strikes. But they keep doing it, day after day.
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When God looks down and sees that the men with the little dimply white balls are still out in the open playing that stupid game, He sends more strikes. But they keep doing it, day after day.
Too bad the Secret Service won't let people play golf in the rain.
95 days and counting... [trumpgolfcount.com]
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AFAIK that only counts the days actively golfing. Not the number of days Trump spends on a golf course (for example, in the clubhouse.) Also note, the white house is saying that Trump goes to a golf course without confirming he actually played golf there. I don't know if those count either.
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AFAIK that only counts the days actively golfing. Not the number of days Trump spends on a golf course ...
Yup. But ~100 times of just actual Golf in one year still pretty telling for a guy who lambasted Obama for playing golf -- reportedly about 330 times over eight years -- and also said, "“I'll be too busy to play golf ..."
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Har Har Har Har! :)
Lucky, that god is bad in aiming
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Sure (Score:2)
I can do that too. In Paris on the Champs de Mars I predicted dozens of times that it would hit the Eiffel Tower and I was always right.
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If you put an iPhone 8 on the Eiffel Tower, will it charge wirelessly?
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It works with mountains as well. Used to worked in a city surrounded by mountains and high hills. Any time there were thunderstorms, lightning flashes seem to take a particular liking to one mountain peak. Maybe it was more metallic and/or simply had sharper terrain.
I'd guess that you could combine geological data (for metallic nature) with radar data (to get fractal spikiness and height), then determine if there was any correlation.
NOV 12 1955 10:04 pm (Score:5, Funny)
NOV 12 1955 10:04 pm
Correlation is not causation (Score:1)
We train AIs with spurious correlations and trust their verdict. The future is going to be governed by superstitious computers.
been done before (Score:2)
My uncle Richard Fernsler came up with a method, late 1970s I recall, for identifying where lightning will strike, which helped launch his career as an exotic weapon developer for the Navy. His publications only hint at what actually gets built (functioning yet buggy unpredictable prototypes).
https://journals.ametsoc.org/d... [ametsoc.org]
Not New (Score:2)
If so, then time for cheap energy. (Score:2)
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Seriously, if we can predict close to a spot, then should be able to attract it with a lightening rod and capture the electricity.
How will a pole that makes things weigh less help us capture electricity?
We already know how to attract lightning to a lightning rod. You can do it by ionizing a path in the atmosphere for the lightning to follow using a laser. But we don't have any way to make use of that much energy at once, yet.
Maybe if we invent shipstones, we can harness lightning. Or build a supercapacitor the size of a small state?
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Just leave it to Ol' Musky and he will build one.
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Lighting rods work to a point. Power lines are a lot better. Even buried.
Lived in Florida for many years one if not the lighting capital of the world. Telephone companies and us military test there all the time. They even get lighting to strike over and over the same spot. Rockets and thin wires help a lot. But the did find that lighting hit buried powered lines all the time. You can see it by the fused sand/glass that the lighting traveled through the ground.
Also most playgrounds had static sensors
I can do that too (Score:2)
Lighting will strike the tall metal structure. It will do so during the next rainstorm.
Easy (Score:3)
What If: Lightning (Score:2)