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How many have personal experience with 150 MV?
Approximately the same but now you at least use units that make sense.
Can you convert that to marathons per fortnight for me?
Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms
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#62the phenomenon of "red sprites", massive discharges of electricity upwards into the ionosphere that counter every single lightning strike, are only now being observed and photographed. these energy ejections are SO powerful, they temporarily cause miniature aurora displays for a split second, by ionizing the same layer of the atmosphere where they appear. it's amazing to see photos of it.
Here's an article with some pictures in case anyone else was curious about red sprites like I was.
https://earthsky.org/earth/definition-what-are-lightning-spr...
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In my neck of the woods it's called "journalist units": three soccer fields, five blue whales etc. Somebody even created a website to facilitate conversion but unfortunately the TLS certificate has expired and Cloudflare now blocks access. Article in Danish: https://ing.dk/artikel/lynch-nu-kan-ogsaa-journalister-faa-s...
The worst are the money units! Instead of writing "40 millions dollars", they often omit the number, like "millions of dollars". This means they only use three values: millions, billions, and thousands. My best guess for why is that it's a way to not be wrong. If you print "40 millions", and it turns out to be 39, you've lied, which is considered far more bad than being vague.
> My best guess for why is that it's a way to not be wrong.
It's also often used to make things seem better or worse than they actually are. "Thousands of dollars" sounds like it's far more than for example $2,108.
Re: Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms
#64Stole Bruce Banner’s thunder
the tropical part obviously explains Street Fighter II's Blanka resemblance to the Hulk.
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#68Positively charged particles end up at the top of the storm while negatively charged particles drop to the bottom, creating an enormous electric field that can be as strong as 100 million AA batteries stacked end-to-end. Or put another way, 150 MV. What's with this media obsession with using obscure non-SI units?
“Americans will use anything but the metric system”
Re: Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms
#69Positively charged particles end up at the top of the storm while negatively charged particles drop to the bottom, creating an enormous electric field that can be as strong as 100 million AA batteries stacked end-to-end. Or put another way, 150 MV. What's with this media obsession with using obscure non-SI units?
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#70Positively charged particles end up at the top of the storm while negatively charged particles drop to the bottom, creating an enormous electric field that can be as strong as 100 million AA batteries stacked end-to-end. Or put another way, 150 MV. What's with this media obsession with using obscure non-SI units?
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Volt wasn't discovered but AA batteries were.