I’ve always understood that big buildings use lightning rods to attract lightning strikes away from smaller buildings nearby, but understanding that in theory isn’t the same as seeing it in action in this photograph that Alain Aguilar contributed to The Big Picture last week (of a storm in May):
Lightning, from The Big Picture
The entire series of storm pictures is fascinating.
As a
professionalfoolhardy electron wrangler, I’d love to get my hands on all those free-range electrons. Well, not my hands per se as that would kill me. Or give me super-powers.