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You ve probably the heard the old saying: Better to be lucky than good. Well, when it comes to how well-prepared the people who run New York City were for Irene, it s fair to say they were both.CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod reports that, as some New Yorkers sloshed
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stanley quencher ning, produces a lot of high energy electrons and their anti-matter counterparts called positrons. This generates lots of gamma rays, but not much visible light, which is why we call it dark lightning. In a research paper published on the journal Geophysical Research Letters, Dwyer and his team demonstrate that lightning-like events responsible for TGFs emit relatively little visible light and, thus, are inherently dark. The TGFs鈥攚hich were first detected by NASA Compton gamma ray telescope in 1994鈥攎ay be caused by electron avalanches that retro-feed themselves within thunderclouds. Fortunately, pilots try to avoid storms as much as they can. Unfortunately, sometimes tha
