It sounds like the beginning of Zombies on a carpenter’s plane — the movie starring Samuel L. Jackson that I want to see next year — but scientist have proven the existence of something call sour lightning , an unseeable effect that can scupper unsuspecting airline passengers to sizable sum of money of da Gamma ray actinotherapy .
“ rider flying through a thunderstorm when a Terrestrial Gamma Flash fall out would receive a meaning dosage of [ gamma ray ] radiation syndrome , like to a full body CT scan , ” says Professor Joseph Dwyer of the Florida Institute of Technology . These flashes are due to saturnine lightning and amount to a sizable part of your lifespan radiation syndrome budget .
talk to ABC Science , Professor Dwyer said that this “ exotic type of spark , which we ’ve coin dark lightning , bring about a lot of gamy vitality electron and their anti - matter similitude called positrons . This generates lots of gamma rays , but not much seeable light , which is why we call it dark lightning . ”
In aresearch paper published on the daybook Geophysical Research Letters , Dwyer and his team exhibit that “ lightning - like events responsible for TGFs breathe comparatively footling visible light and , thus , are inherently drear . ” The TGFs — which were first detected by NASA ’s Compton gamma shaft of light telescope in 1994 — may be due to negatron avalanches that retro - prey themselves within thunderclouds .
Fortunately , pilot film prove to quash storm as much as they can . unluckily , sometimes that ’s not potential .
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