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    "Astonishingly, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who has been aware of our findings for two years, just announced that the state will not get around to installing Dominion’s security patches until after the 2024 Presidential election."

     

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    I knew it from childhood.
    The GI’s had bivouac in the big field across from our housing in Camp Kilmer, NJ.
    Us kids would go over around noon and go to the head of the mess line to get the Hershey bars. The GI’s were always very nice because so many missed their own kids.
     

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    Using advanced detectors aboard a NASA-converted high-altitude ex-cold-war spy plane, researchers recorded extremely brief (50 to 250 milliseconds) gamma ray bursts produced by tropical storms. Known as γ-ray radiation, the bursts are invisible to the naked eye and are almost impossible to detect from space. It turns out, unexpectedly, that they occur with great frequency in thunderstorms, and there are three distinct types.

    The phenomenon is described in two studies published last week in Nature . It may be an explanation for what initiates lightning, which seems often to follow these γ-ray microbursts. We've never been able to adequately explain how lightning is triggered because there are no observable electric fields strong enough to account for it.

    Gamma rays are the most energetic form of light, and they're typically associated with extreme cosmic events like supernovae and black holes. Now we know that a form of gamma radiation is happening right over our heads every time we're in a thunderstorm that's generating lightning.

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