Lab: The Lightning
Research Lab at the University of Florida
Career: Lightning-tolerant spacecraft designer, power utilities engineer
Career: Lightning-tolerant spacecraft designer, power utilities engineer
A lucky few engineering
students at the University of Florida get to do something vaguely magical:
conjure their own lightning. To make bolts, students fire specially designed
rockets, each of which trails metal wires connected to sensors, directly into thunderstorms.
Students examine high-speed video of strikes to study lightning-bolt physics
and test materials by directing bolts toward a target.
This would be a really cool area of study!
Being able to manipulate weather and control lighting is like the X-Man "Storm" or my fave hero, the God of Thunder, Thor..! Cool science FTW.!!
ReplyDeleteWow! That's something else. I certainly wouldn't want to live next door though. :)
ReplyDeleteThis one is interesting. I love to see lightening. But the ideas they are trying to see into and unlock are WAAAAAAY above understanding and pay grade here, that is for sure.
ReplyDeleteOk, that is seriously cool.
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