Volcano + Lightning = Awesome Desktop
May 8, 2008 at 10:30 pm | Posted in World News | 10 Comments
A few days ago, a previously dormant volcano in southern Chile for 9,000 years erupted. The eruption blasted liquified metal and lightning miles into the sky. The rare result, as pictured above, is referred to as a “dirty thunderstorm”. According to National Geographic, it’s “the result of rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the plume colliding to produce static charges—just as ice particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms.”
Other theories lay the blame on a pissed off Zeus, Sauron or the X-Men’s Storm. More pictures can be found at National Geographic News and Universe Today.
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Monscooch 
Had this on Nerdrock too. This is what I imagine a biblical apocalypse would look like.
Comment by Tom— May 9, 2008 #
awesome pic love the computer drawings!!
Comment by cool girl— March 9, 2009 #
i met the guy who took the first picture, he won the world press photo award with that one. Never did much with his life before then, just was in the right place at the right time 🙂
Comment by D— November 21, 2010 #
what ever you do in life, it i’ll amount to something eventually and might end up meaning allot
Comment by Heironymos— July 29, 2012 #
Just found your work via the Bing search engin.
just have to say the man who took this shot. WAS in the right place at the right time. I would love to swap place with to be able to see this with my eyes. You are so luck!!
Comment by Richard— December 8, 2010 #
gay little cunt i’ll snap your jaw thne stab your mum:)
Comment by humple dink— January 18, 2013 #
aweeeeesome hottttttt!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by sarah— September 22, 2011 #
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