[Science] Antimatter detected in thunderstorms

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Re: [Science] Antimatter detected in thunderstorms

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No where near as big as jigganauttawatts!!! :P
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Re: [Science] Antimatter detected in thunderstorms

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Sonic Glitch wrote:
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Mark wrote:

1.21 Jiggawatts??? b :mrgreen:
its Gigawatts :poke:
Whatever... :whack:
C'mon I never (ever) get to be the grammar nazi!
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That's because you say things like "never (ever)"
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it's also because I can't spell.

just take a look at my posts from a four/five months ago, before I got firefox :worried:
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Re: [Science] Antimatter detected in thunderstorms

Post by Tholian_Avenger »

What is the chance that a High Energy Cosmic Ray strike could cause or contribute to the lightning/antimatter occurrence?

So a lightning strike very well could have given the needed mutations to the primordial goo. . . and by extension still be at work upon modern life?
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