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  2. Sprite (lightning) - Wikipedia

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    When a sufficiently large positive lightning strike carries charges to the ground, the cloud top is left with a strongly negative net charge. This can be modeled as a quasi-static electric dipole and for less than 10 milliseconds a strong electric field is generated in the region above the thunderstorm.

  3. Time Traveler (1980 video game) - Wikipedia

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    Time Traveler is a game in which the player goes back in time to 14 different eras to collect a hidden ring from each era, each one having a different special ability to help the player. The player then brings the rings back to the time machine laboratory. [5]

  4. Back to the Future: The Game - Wikipedia

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    On May 14, 1986, after failing to stop the foreclosure sale overseen by his father George but managing to prevent Biff Tannen from acquiring the Doc's notes on time travel, Marty is shocked to see a DeLorean time machine (later revealed to be a temporal duplicate created by the lightning strike at the end of the second film) appear outside the ...

  5. Lightning - Wikipedia

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    Positive lightning is less common than negative lightning and on average makes up less than 5% of all lightning strikes. [10] A bolt from the blue lightning strike which appears to initiate from the clear, but [clarification needed] the turbulent sky above the anvil cloud and drive a bolt of plasma through the cloud directly to the ground. They ...

  6. Lightning strike - Wikipedia

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    The flash of a lightning strike and resulting thunder occur at roughly the same time. But light travels 300,000 km/sec, almost a million times the speed of sound. Sound travels at the slower speed of about 340 m/sec (depending on the temperature), so the flash of lightning is seen before thunder is heard.

  7. Astronaut spots 'spooky' lightning on Earth from space - AOL

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    When seen from Earth, lightning appears both powerful and majestic, but when viewed from space, it can seem a little ghostly.

  8. MLB season is here: Experts warn lightning is a danger at games

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    The National Weather Service (NWS) says that lightning can strike up to 10 miles away from a thunderstorm, but for the purpose of the study, Vagasky used a distance of 8 miles.

  9. DeLorean time machine - Wikipedia

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    A replica of the DeLorean time machine's Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor. The Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor is the name of a power source used by the DeLorean time machine in the Back to the Future trilogy. It can be seen for the first time at the end of Back to the Future when Doc pulls into the McFly's driveway after a trip to the year 2015 ...