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The359
Member # 37
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OK, I've thought about this plenty of times before but I never really got an answer.Why does "heat lightening" (AKA Humidity Lightening) not have any Thunder to go along with it? ------------------ "No, 3 & 6 are mandatory, so you only have to do them if you want" Alex, fellow classmate, trying to explain an assignment (2/2/01)
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Daniel
Member # 453
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Because ... it's not as hot? Regular lightning is so hot it creates the closest thing to natural plasma on earth. I mean, the air around the bolt reaches millions of degrees. The shockwave created by this sudden burst of hot air expanding and displacing other air is what we hear as thunder.So I guess "heat lightning" isn't nearly as hot. Also, i seem to recall that heat lightning doesn't occur in "bolts" but sort of happens spontaneously throughout a cloud. (I may be wrong on all of this, but I just thought I'd put in my two cents worth.)
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TSN
Member # 31
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I believe "heat lightning" is just lightning that's really far away. There's no thunder because it's just too far away to be heard.I could be misinformed, of course... ------------------ "I write messages on money. It's my own form of social protest. A letter printed on paper that no one will destroy. Passed indiscriminantly across race, class, and gender lines and written in the blood that keeps the beast alive A quiet little hijacking on the way to the checkout counter. and a federal crime. I hope that someone will find my message one day when they really need it. Like I do." -Rage against the Machine
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The359
Member # 37
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Well, I know Heat Lightening actually is a bolt, but I don't think it moves as fast. It's also usually within a cloud, and a single bolt can span dozens of miles. Dunno about the heat thing though. You'd still thing any form of lightening would create SOME kind of sound.------------------ "No, 3 & 6 are mandatory, so you only have to do them if you want" Alex, fellow classmate, trying to explain an assignment (2/2/01)
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Sol System
Member # 30
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What is heat lightning?------------------ Not even a god can deny that I have squared the circle of a static Earth and cubed the Earth sphere by rotating it once to a dynamic Time or Life Cube. -- Gene Ray **** Read three (three!) chapters of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet" Or don't. You know, whatever.
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TSN
Member # 31
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I am vindicated! Excelsior!------------------ "I write messages on money. It's my own form of social protest. A letter printed on paper that no one will destroy. Passed indiscriminantly across race, class, and gender lines and written in the blood that keeps the beast alive A quiet little hijacking on the way to the checkout counter. and a federal crime. I hope that someone will find my message one day when they really need it. Like I do." -Rage against the Machine
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