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3rd Mar 2021

Lightning

Lightning strikes the earths surface about 100 times every second...Brilliant flashes of hot white light flicker across an open prairie or beams of energy hit the worlds tallest building, flickers dance across an open lake while fisherman run for cover. Lightning while 5 times as hot as the surface of the sun, is only about 2 cm across and the white flash that we see light up the sky is the near gigajule (approximately one fuckton) of energy released from the negative particles in the cloud meeting the positive particles on the ground. In this episode we explore lightning and its physics, its applications, and its weirdness.

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Dude! Nature
The longest running (and most popular) science podcast for those of us who got kicked out of class for throwing pencils at the ceiling. Adam and Noah are skeptical twin brothers whose separate journeys through professional science and engineering led them to a ridiculous notion: that reality is strange and barely understood. Unfortunately they just didn't have the attention span to listen to any science podcasts without wanting to gouge their eyes out with a spoon.

If you've ever wanted to listen to more podcasts about cosmic quandaries, evolutionary mysteries, and giant creatures living underneath the ice of rogue planets but just can't stand academic rambling delivered with a nasally voice, then this podcast is for you.