Free Fall From Space
Felix Baumgartner will jump 120,000ft - less than 40 miles from SPACE - after having successfully completed a test jump in New Mexico Thursday
Via Buzzfeed
- Posted on:
- Tue, 11th Jan 2011
- Keywords:
- science
- antimatter
- thunder
- storms
- storm
- atmosphere
- beams
- geoscience
- Notes:
- Notes
Antimatter caught streaming from thunderstorms on Earth
I think this is one of the most exciting discoveries in the geosciences in quite a long time - the idea that any planet has thunderstorms that can create antimatter and then launch it into space in narrow beams that can be detected by orbiting spacecraft to me sounds like something straight out of science fiction.
Atmospheric electricity researcher Steven Cummer, Duke University, North Carolina
Hot piss! Our planet is mint. Found via @lingmops on Twitter
