Lightning; Some fear it, others like it. In either case, lightning is both dazzling and dangerous. It is hotter than the surface of the sun. “A single bolt can travel as fast as sixty-thousand miles per second, churning up temperatures of fifty-five thousand degrees F (five times hotter than the sun’s surface) and producing in one instant more electricity than all the public and private utilities in the United States combined can turn out …showed first 75 words of 1790 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1790 total…well as a deadly enemy. Not only does it provide us with a fantastic natural light show, it also benefits us on a global scale through heat dissipation. Perhaps someday, as technology advances, scientists will be able to alleviate the global warming problem through either the manipulation of lightning, or the creation of artificial lightning. In the mean time, we'll just have to sit back and watch the show, from a safe place of course.