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  2. Ball lightning - Wikipedia

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    Ball lightning is a possible source of legends that describe luminous balls, such as the mythological Anchimayen from Argentinean and Chilean Mapuche culture.. According to a statistical investigation carried out in 1960, of 1,962 Oak Ridge National Laboratory monthly role personnel, and of all 15,923 Union Carbide Nuclear Company personnel in Oak Ridge, found 5.6% and 3.1% respectively ...

  3. Ball Lightning (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Ball Lightning (Chinese: 球状闪电) is a hard science fiction novel by Chinese author Liu Cixin, also considered a prequel to The Three-Body Problem. The original Chinese language version was published in 2004.

  4. Plasmoid - Wikipedia

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    Natural plasmoid produced in the near-Earth magnetotail by magnetic reconnection. A plasmoid is a coherent structure of plasma and magnetic fields.Plasmoids have been proposed to explain natural phenomena such as ball lightning, [1] [2] magnetic bubbles in the magnetosphere, [3] and objects in cometary tails, [4] in the solar wind, [5] [6] solar atmosphere, [7] and in the heliospheric current ...

  5. Atmospheric ghost lights - Wikipedia

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    As a red ball of fire appears above the forest near the Inari shrine on the island, it is said to dance around above the mountains and forest and then disappear. [12] In Banshū (now Hyōgo Prefecture ), according to Nishihari Kaidan Jikki (in the section "Sayō Shunsō Anzekyū Ika wo Mishi Mono") an atmospheric ghost light would appear in the ...

  6. Georg Wilhelm Richmann - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] While the experiment was underway, a discharge reported to have been ball lightning appeared and collided with Richmann's head leaving him with a red spot on his forehead, his left shoe blown open, and parts of his clothes singed. [1] [6] The ball lightning arising from the apparatus was the cause of his death. [7]

  7. Musk and Trump try to move fast and break some things in the ...

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    Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are applying Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” ethos to the US government.

  8. Markets fall following tariff turbulence

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    Stocks fell Monday in turbulent trading linked to President Donald Trump's tariff announcements. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.3%, while the broader S&P 500 declined 0.8%. The tech-heavy ...

  9. Mars Retrograde Is Finally Over—Here’s What Happens Next

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    But Mars retrograde, which happens every 18 to 24 months, has a special sort of wrecking ball effect. And we’re not at all sad to see that end. If Mars retrograde were a character in a movie, ...