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   From: fungus@amongus.com.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:52:43 -0500   
   JAB  wrote:   
      
   > New world record set for longest ever 'megaflash' lightning   
   >   
   > A titanic bolt of lightning lit up a whopping 829km of sky from   
   > eastern Texas to Kansas City, Missouri in the US. The monstrous streak   
   > has set the new record for the longest ever lighting flash.   
   >   
   > It went off during a storm in October 2017 but remained undiscovered   
   > for almost a decade before observations made by the National Oceanic   
   > and Atmospheric Agency's (NOAA) GOES-16 satellite were re-examined.   
   >   
   > The event surpasses by almost 100km the previous record-holder which   
   > stretched across 3 US states during a storm in April 2020.   
   >   
   > https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/earth-sciences/record-megaflash-lightning/   
   >   
      
   The one fact you'd be interested to know - what time the flash happened   
   - is absent in the article.  How did it go undetected? That's a big   
   one, must have been super interesting.  What else do we miss when we   
   are sleeping?  Sasquatch pissing on the network center?   
      
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