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Petrified Lightning: Natural glass formed by lightning strikes is called fulgurite. It is created when a lightning strike hits a sandbank, blowing a super-heated hole right through it. This quickly cools into a beautiful glass. The name comes from Latin fulgur, or lightning.
(Image credit to flickr, Carion Mineraux, and Nature. Thanks Grandma.)
By the beard of Zeus!!
(via mothernaturenetwork)
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Lack of confidence.
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High Resolutiony10k:
God strikes the White House with lightning Sunday evening in response to President Obama failing to release any official Easter greeting to the American people.
Wow there is a god. Weird.
Good thing science gave us the lightening rod, as to render “god’s wrath” useless.
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High ResolutionShinmoedake began erupting on Wednesday.That’s lightening COMING OUT OF THE VOLCANO. More pics at the link.
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"Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."
-George Carlin
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed”.
-Albert Einstein
