Comments on: Interesting Facts About Lightning

By: Ria Ali

Ria Ali — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:01:02 +0000

this is certainly helpful!! thanks a lot! i want some really awesome facts about lightning for my science chart and this will definitely help!

By: toby

toby — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:15:44 +0000

lightning sucks it could kill you and you all say this

By: tim0

tim0 — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:55:34 +0000

hey that sounds obvious and logical if they were holding on with their left arm as you think.
An idea that comes to mind is the old belief that Earth is even numbers and Heaven is odd numbers.
Earth is number two and heaven is number three as it is wider than Earth and includes the Earth and sky.

By: timbo

timbo — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:23:34 +0000

They were on the left side of the rope; the even-numbered students were to the right of the rope.

By: Will Bootland

Will Bootland — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:33:03 +0000

The mention and myths of these thunderstones are widespread, they are also sometimes known as sky stones/arrows/axes, storm stones, thunder teeth (etc). There appear to be a few more reports aswell;

“A thunderstorm near Vicksburg, MS in 1930 resulted in some rather interesting hailstones. One had a solid piece of alabaster 3/4 inch across. Another was a live 8″ long gopher turtle, entirely encased in ice.”

“In the London Times, Feb. 1, 1888, it is said that a roundish object of iron had been found, ‘after a violent thunderstorm’ in a garden at Brixton, Aug. 17, 1887.”

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29281/29281-h/29281-h.htm is a website detailing the famous fall of stones in Siena (and others). As for what to do with them? I would hang on to it – how many other people can claim to have a thunderstone?

By: Marena

Marena — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:47:59 +0000

*Rope

By: Marena

Marena — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:46:56 +0000

-.- and why exactly where they on different sides of the rode? Or did you assume?

By: Marena

Marena — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:44:46 +0000

Why the hell would the odd numbered ones be holding on with their left hands?

By: ANON

ANON — Sun, 22 May 2011 02:48:27 +0000

Fun Fact:

They never touch a potentially live object with their right hands either.

By: Lin Simon

Lin Simon — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:09:35 +0000

Hi Adam I came across your comment when I was searching about this stone. I have such a stone and I really don’t know what to do with it. I was told that they are varuablle in India. I got it from my grandmother after lightning strikes one of her huts.