Clue to earthquake lightning mystery

[jakeXT]

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Using a tub of plain kitchen flour, they discovered an entirely new physical phenomenon.

They announced their findings at the American Physical Society meeting in Denver.

"Our first suspicion was this has got to be a mistake. There must be something stupid we are doing," said Professor Troy Shinbrot, of Rutgers University, New Jersey.

"We took a tupperware container filled with flour, tipped it back and forth until cracks appeared, and it produced 200 volts of charge.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26462348

[Live and Learn]

1. Interesting. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. Shocking.

[PADemD]

3. So now

Are the dismissive scientists going to apologize to people who claimed to have seen earthquake lights?

"Stories of "earthquake lights" have been recorded for 300 years, but were typically dismissed by scientists as hearsay, or fodder for UFO enthusiasts."

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26462348

[MisterP]

5. heck, the metropolis of Tenochtitlan was dismissed for centuries as the ravings of

hallucinating, untrained Papists... (Canizares-Esguerra 130-31)

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Early warning signal?

How about a perpetual motion machine!

Yeah, baby!