RE: Science Porn
August 22, 2016 at 5:57 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2016 at 5:58 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 21, 2016 at 6:15 am)pocaracas Wrote: It's called a fulgurite. When lightning strikes the sand it melts it into glass and the glass takes on the shape of the lightning:
That picture has been debunked. The fact that the branching pattern doesn't radiate in all directions, but seem to preferentially grow upwards, should raise suspicion about whether that, whatever it is, actually followed the track of current from a lightning bolt dissipating in sand.