anyone try to fuse sand with lightning? Not for EDDEKALB!!!!!!!!!

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we have red sand in this area all over, desert flats. i was wondering what would happen if i got a 5 gallon bucket of white sand and put like a 10 or 20 foot rod or pole in it and wait till the next T storm comes. if lightning hits it will it fuse the sand in the bucket or will it go past the bucket deeper in the earth??? has anyone ever tried this at all? there is a market for the stuff.
i also remember a movie where someone started a buisness out of sand fused glass sculptures.
 

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Re: anyone try to fuse sand with lightning?

the stuff is called fulgurite, and i think the movie is sweet home alabama
 

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anotherthing, in the movie i think i remember his pieces were huge, the pieces i see are only inches long and are fetching top dollar
 

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hey PM this stuff to yourself next time.......
 

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How are you planning to get the lightning to hit your bucket?
 

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The lightning won't stay in the bucket, it has to go to ground.
 

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The glass is not clear and is a grey black mass that is not pretty like in the movie.
 

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ive never tried it, nor am i a scientist but i would think in theory it would work. cause obliviously the lightning will have to go to ground but you would think that the heat generated while it passed through would be enough to make it. but instead of putting it in a bucket i would put the sand in the ground all around the rod and hope for the best. The largest one ever found was found in florida on a beach and it had 3 legs that came off of it, legs of 14', 16', and 8'. it was found on a beach where lightning had struck. Good luck.
 

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After I watched Sweet Home Alabama I wanted to do this also. I have a huge sand hill next to the river.
I dont think you need a rod that long if the sand doesnt have alot of other tall structures around it.......you could pound rods into the ground and because objects on the ground generally have a positive charge and since opposites attract, an upward streamer is sent out from the object about to be struck. When these two paths meet, a return stroke zaps back up to the sky. It is the return stroke that produces the visible flash, but it all happens in about one-millionth of a second ....that you think the flash is coming from the sky to the ground....but its not .

The inside of the sand glass is usually full of bubbles and you need to be careful when digging them out. Some are very fragile.

My mom has a lightening strike glass path next to her sand enbankment on the river. It varies from two to four inches wide and travels for about twenty feet....She had a birdfeeder on a metal pole which was struck.
 

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chong2mry said:
. . . put like a 10 or 20 foot rod or pole in it and wait till the next T storm comes.

. . . the stuff is called fulgurite, and i think the movie is sweet home alabama
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Sounds more like the movie "Joe Dirt". :D

If you use a pole it will likely use the pole and not the sand.

I used to own a 34 ft sailboat and we were the tallest mast in our little marina. You think about lightning a lot in July and August on the Finger Lakes. I did learn that lightning recognizes 150 ft height increments in "deciding" on a target (and, as Gypsyheart noted, it is initiated by ground streamers from highly excited positive ions in the ground, building, tree, etc. that "reach" upwards towards the negative charge of the storm.) Dig yourself a patch to put highly mineralized sand in.

I saw on TV that if you launch a model rocket into a prime thunderhead you can occasionally convince the strike to follow the smoke trail. Best not to be holding the 20 ft launch control wires if it works. ;D
 

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Dig a hole and fill it with the sand of choice.. Maybe silica sand for clear ? Also instead of burying the lightning rod in it, suspend the rod a 1/4 inch above the surface of the sand with a nonconducting material.. Just might work..
 

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Why wait for lightning? Build a large Tesla coil. lightning storm whenever you want it. I think there are directions on how to do it on the net somewhere.
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Disclaimer people have died when attempting to make/use Tesla coils If you do this I am relieving myself of any and all injuries you may suffer.

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sure would like to get some myself.i'd sure like to check it out when you do it.just dont get to shocked out there,maybe alittle burnt would be ok.lol
 

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the big fulgurite test.JPG
 

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AWESOME comic strip jim,, too cool, especially when he turns into a sculpture himeself, lol.
i just took a chainlink fence down and now have a 20-25 ft pole, i will put this on a sand dune that is off a highway i travel all the time, and will check it in a few months, kinda sucks tho because it is red sand, the white sands is a "monument" .

P.S. HEY EDDEKALB , THIS POST WASNT INTENDED FOR YOU, IT WAS INTENDED FOR ALL THE OTHERS IN TN!!!!!!!!, SEE THE TOPIC??? ;)
 

Lightning struck sand, like branches from a lightning struck cedar are tools used by the Medicine men and Shaman's of some Native American tribes.
It would not be "good Medicine" to try and make profit from these things.
Often called tears of the Great Spirit. If you clean them gently, place them in the sun for 11 days never letting the dark of night touch them you may create your own "good" medicine.
It would be cool if you'd make of gift of them to any tribal member.
Thanks
Mikemonster aka Cha Ta Wah
 

interesting, i need some good right now myself
 

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