in more detail.....
Lightning is a discharge of electricity. A single stroke of lightning can heat the air around it to 30,000 degrees Celsius (54,000 degrees Farhenheit) This extreme heating causes the air to expand at an explosive rate. The expansion creates a shock wave that turns into a booming sound wave (thunder). 😖mart:
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the Earth's surface has a net positive charge. Because opposites attract, the negative charge at the bottom of the thunder cloud wants to link up with the positive charge of the Earth's surface. Once the negative charge at the bottom of the cloud gets large enough to overcome air resistance, a flow of negative charge rushes toward the earth. but interestinly the lightning we see isnt going from cloud to ground it is going from the ground up to the clouds weird huh.
Partially. But you've got that part right. Indian elephants deliberately trash in to villages, where they make rice-beer in barrels outside of the houses, and get a good sip of the stuff. Naturally, a horde of drunk 8 ton animals spells trouble.
The fact you're referring to actually concerned 3 drunk elephants hitting some suspended powercables, frying their big gray asses.
More dramatic is that these alcoholic beasts often tend to totally flatten villages after their happy hour. This has claimed the lives of over 20 people last year.
But there's also the African elephant, and those cuddly creatures have a whole different manner of getting boozed!
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African elephants are just nuts for fermenting fruits, like banana's, mango's and especially the sweet Marula-fruit. These contain noticeable amounts of alcohol after a week of rotting in the sun.
Now these elephants know exactly when it's 'happy-fruit season' and travel dozens of miles to get to the best areas for the goodies!
There they indulge themselves and get pretty wasted; falling over, bumping into trees and doing all sorts of other crazy stuff.
Saw it on tv once, pretty hilarious!