Why doesn’t lightning hit the ground in a straight line like a laser?
In: Planetary Science
The best explanation for why lightning is shaped as it is and where it strikes is to start from the clouds, and randomly chose a point in that circle, and from that point make another circle, so on so forth. That random path would normally be the one of least resistance, so the chance of each ‘random’ point being perfectly linear would be a once in a generation even, most likely.
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