Comments on: The Smoke Monster! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/20/the-smoke-monster/ Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sean McCorkle http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/20/the-smoke-monster/#comment-56572 Sean McCorkle Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:40:06 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=8054#comment-56572 Thorn: Following links from the April 21 story on <a HREF="http://www.spaceweather.com/" rel="nofollow">spaceweather.com</A> leads to a nice description of a new theory about the charge buildup mechanism <a HREF="http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24983/" rel="nofollow">http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24983/</A> Thorn:
Following links from the April 21 story on spaceweather.com leads to a nice description of a new theory about the charge buildup mechanism
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24983/

]]> By: David http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/20/the-smoke-monster/#comment-56475 David Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:40:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=8054#comment-56475 Thorn: The lightning is caused by the static electricity from the ash particles rubbing against one another, much like the ice rubbing against each other in clouds which forms the more familiar lightning. Thorn:

The lightning is caused by the static electricity from the ash particles rubbing against one another, much like the ice rubbing against each other in clouds which forms the more familiar lightning.

]]> By: Thorn http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/20/the-smoke-monster/#comment-56473 Thorn Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:04:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=8054#comment-56473 If I may ask, what is the cause of lightning during an eruption? Makes for some awesome night pics. If I may ask, what is the cause of lightning during an eruption? Makes for some awesome night pics.

]]> By: Gaythia http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/04/20/the-smoke-monster/#comment-56472 Gaythia Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:00:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=8054#comment-56472 Great photo! The question below is more for Chris, and his Knight Science Journalism fellow Eugine Samuel Reich, but it might apply to the above also: Does it matter if the contrast has been jacked up to dramatize the photograph? See this other Eyjafjallajokull volcano photograph: http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/04/16/2273156.aspx What should the limits be on digital photo enhancement? Great photo!

The question below is more for Chris, and his Knight Science Journalism fellow Eugine Samuel Reich, but it might apply to the above also:

Does it matter if the contrast has been jacked up to dramatize the photograph?

See this other Eyjafjallajokull volcano photograph:

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/04/16/2273156.aspx

What should the limits be on digital photo enhancement?

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