Nathan

Sharing my unwarranted opinions

[Sean Tucker @seantucker2020]

I’m #PL44SED with my performance

[MLB @MLB]

THE BLUE JAYS END THE 6TH INNING ON A WILD PLAY #WORLDSERIES

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

Are you ready, @Reds Nation?

Cincinnati is back in the #Postseason for the first time since 2020 😤

#ATOBTTR

[Nathan @Duck_947]

@RedsDaily4 Wednesday #packGABP ur a good man!

[Nathan @Duck_947]

Thank you lord for this 1:00pm time slate today 🙏🏈

#nfl

[Max Velocity @MaxVelocityWX]

Hurricane Erin looks CRAZY on satellite right now 😳

[Nathan @Duck_947]

@ElyriaJedi @NoahWeiskopf @NickPedone12 Yeah let’s blame AB for this one

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

BREAKING: An incredible "gigantic jet" – an extremely-rare type of upper-atmospheric lightning – was photographed from the International Space Station on Friday morning.

This is the clearest photo we have EVER seen of a gigantic jet from above.

Nichole Rhea Ayers is a major in the U.S. Air Force and a NASA astronaut. She launched to the International Space Station as a pilot of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission on March 14, and will be returning to Earth soon.

On Thursday morning, July3, she captured an unbelievable photo of an ultra-rare GIANT JET. The International Space Station was over Mexico and the southern U.S. at the time.

It looks like the instigating thunderstorm was happening somewhere near Sabinas in Coahuila, Mexico around 1:30 a.m. Central time Thursday.

Gigantic jets are a subset of “blue jets,” which themselves are a type of TLE — or transient luminous event, often referred to as “upper-atmospheric lightning.” There are different types of TLEs, including red “sprites,” green “elves” and blue jets.

Blue jets are the rarest. Elves and sprites occur high above thunderstorms, but jets bridge a key gap between a thunderstorm and the stratosphere high above. Sometimes they even reach up to the base of the mesosphere — the height at which meteors burn up!

They begin as a cloud-to-air discharge that emanates out the top of thunderstorms, but immediately grow to MASSIVE sizes — up to 30 miles tall! They shoot upwards at speeds of 6 to 90 miles PER SECOND, but only last two or three tenths of a second. They are bright blue (almost like a neon sign, since they are plasma after all). The blue color is believed to stem from “excited” nitrogen.
It’s believed that blue jets start as an ordinary lightning strike in the top of thunderclouds, where abundant positive charge is present. Sometimes there’s a negative charge in the clear air above. Instead of the negative charge flowing down to balance out the positive, sometimes the positive shoots upwards into the clear negative skies above. The result? A positive discharge that propagates upwards.

Gigantic jets are even more spectacular. Emerging research suggests they begin as a discharge between negative charge in the mid-levels of the cloud and the positive tops of clouds. That leads to a *negative* “leader” of electricity that shoots upwards and escapes the cloud before it can actually discharge and “balance out” charge within the cloud.

You can tell this one was a “gigantic jet” because of the reddish tops that resembles the stem of a carrot. That’s a sign the gigantic jet reached even higher altitudes — perhaps 50 to 60 miles above the ground.

Atmospheric electrodynamicists (the fancy term for folks who study lightning) are learning about all sorts of never before-discovered lightning discharges. Most of what we know comes from photos like this! In recent years, scientists have coined new terms for curious, fleeting discharges — “trolls”, “pixies”, “ghosts” and “gnomes”.

The existence of upper-atmospheric wasn’t known until July 6, 1989, when a researcher named R.C. Franz left a camera running overnight to capture the night sky. For decades, pilots had reported seeing strange red and blue flashes above thunderstorms, but it wasn’t until Franz obtained photographic evidence that scientists were able to delve deeper into the mystery.

Nowadays, most of what we know comes from photographers who happen to get lucky — especially since the flashes usually last only a couple milliseconds. Ayers’ photo is truly a one-of-a-kind capture that will hopefully shed more light on how TLEs behave.

[Alex @Alex_Cincinnati]

Can someone tell me why Hurtubise has more career at bats than Hinds?

[MLB @MLB]

Jackie Robinson blazed a trail that changed our game and our country. Here is his story. #Jackie42

[Nathan @Duck_947]

Huge pet peeve of mine…

A pro sports team will post something funny, which is great and all

UNTIL You open the comments and see

“GIVE THE ENTIRE MEDIA TEAM A RAISE”

I don’t get why people feel the need to say this every single time 🤷‍♂️

[Nathan @Duck_947]

Devastated at the USA loss without knowing who the other 2 nations are

#FourNations

[Nathan @Duck_947]

So Watson was the problem right guys

#DawgPound

[Nathan @Duck_947]

Hey @Colts how much for Flacco back?

#DawgPound

[Nathan @Duck_947]

Would like to remove my statement

[Nathan @Duck_947]

Best DHop in the league 🥾

[Nathan @Duck_947]

Yankees meltdown

David Fry effect is real

[Nathan @Duck_947]

Pinch hitting David Fry may be the greatest baseball player of all time

[Nathan @Duck_947]

DAVID FRYYYYYYYYYYY

[Cincinnati Reds @Reds]

PUT IT IN REVERSE

[OhiosHottestWhiteBoy @WhiteBoyOH]

If y’all told me Baker Mayfield threw 3 TD passes in a game where Tavierre Thomas blocked a FG and KhaDarel Hodge had the game winning TD in OT, I would tell you Freddie Kitchens is the best head coach in NFL history

#DawgPound