WOW Video Of Massive Solar Erruption

[Gayle in MD]

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/

[cushioncrawler]

I recall that it iz wellknown to airline pilots that here on earth lightning tends to breed lightning, ie allmost instantaneously -- allso that lightning iz often akkompanyd by a discharge of some sort going vertikally up.
mac.