[decimon]

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected beams of antimatter launched by thunderstorms. Acting like enormous particle accelerators, the storms can emit gamma-ray flashes, called TGFs, and high-energy electrons and positrons. Scientists now think that most TGFs produce particle beams and antimatter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

[decimon]

Gamma gone ping.

[the invisib1e hand]

Anything to make Islam feel better about itself.

[fruser1]

I think I may be able to harness this type of technology to improve my microwave-oven ray-gun.

[Vaquero]

antimatter ping

[DannyTN]

Can this be weaponized?

[LRS]

Ejecting the core?

[ArrogantBustard]

The article doesn’t mention “red sprites” and “blue jets”, phenomena also associated with severe thunderstorms. A relationship amongst those phenomena and TGF would be an interesting study.

[SF_Redux]

Gamma and Gampa always talked about how this stuff would be found out one day

[The Comedian]

99-magnetic-bottles-of-dilithium-crystals-on-the-wall,-99-magnetic-bottles-of-dilithium-crystals ping.

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Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[frithguild]

The detection of positrons shows many high-energy particles are being ejected from the atmosphere. In fact, scientists now think that all TGFs emit electron/positron beams. A paper on the findings has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters.

At the rate positrons and electrons are beaming out into space, there soon will be little left of our needs. For the good of the planet, we must conserve our positrons and electrons by preventing thuderstorms that result from global warming. If we do not, the consensus of the scientific community concludes that mankind will suffer an electron crash of biblical proportions. All electrical items will cease to function.

[Pyro7480]

Ping!

[Getready]

Cool man, cool....how much more don’t we know about the
way “things” work...?

[dangerdoc]

set beeber stunner on kill ping!

[Silentgypsy]

Are these the same guys who theorized that the rings of Saturn were actually millions of garbage baggies hurled....

[Scythian]

NASA Photoshop need another grant ping !

[Condor51]

Anti Matter?!?!
Ohhhh Nooooooo!!!!
We're all gonna DIE!!!!

nyt: 'Women, Children & Minorities to be hit hardest'

[Hot Tabasco]

beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before.

I've suspected that all along but could never get visual verification due to the storm clouds being in the way........