Thunderstorms Proven To Create Antimatter 153
radioweather writes "Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter from thunderstorms in the form of positrons hurled into space. Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash, a brief burst produced inside thunderstorms and shown to be associated with lightning. 'These signals are the first direct evidence that thunderstorms make antimatter particle beams,' said Michael Briggs, a member of Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor team. He presented the findings at a news briefing at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle."
Destroy the planet! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Call Tesla (Score:3, Funny)
Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash
Screw that. Quick, someone get Bruce Banner [wikipedia.org] up there in an airplane!
Re:Destroy the planet! (Score:5, Funny)
I saw what happened when Neo let a single drop of antimatter fall out of the Millennium Falcon to destroy the elves' homeworld
I know it's a joke, but somehow I still want to see that film...
Re:Beams? (Score:4, Funny)
Well, what might only create one or two antiprotons in the US can actually create a whole beam of them in Europe, because of unit conversion.
Re:Call Tesla (Score:5, Funny)
Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash
Screw that. Quick, someone get Bruce Banner [wikipedia.org] up there in an airplane!
That'll make him angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry.
Re:Posibilities (Score:4, Funny)
we'll first need to breed anti-sharks to carry them.
Re:Not surprising (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, good. I was worried I was the only one that smelled that...
Re:Destroy the planet! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Death ray? Not hard. (Score:3, Funny)
Keeping antimatter safe is easy; you can just stuff it in a shoe box, as long as the shoe box is made of antimatter.