On May 7, 2:41 pm, Attuarii <chatten...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/photogalleries/volcan...
>
> May 6, 2008?After 9,000 years of silence, Chile's Chait=E9n volcano
(pictu=
red
> on May 3) is erupting with lava, ash?and lightning (full story).
>
> Since the volcano awoke on May 2, it has continued erupting
intermittently=
,
> blanketing the area in ash and forcing more than 4,000 people to flee.
>
> The mingling of lightning and ash seen above may be a "dirty
thunderstorm.=
"
>
> The little-understood storms may be sparked when rock fragments, ash,
and
> ice particles in the plume collide to produce static charges?just as ice
> particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms.
> (More: "Volcanic Lightning Sparked by 'Dirty Thunderstorms,' Study
Finds"
> [February, 2, 2007].)
>
> --
> "It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the
mass=
es
> or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not
> change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
> Giordano Bruno
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