Elves and Sprites DO exist!

[drgamer]

Sprites, jellyfish-shaped flashes brighter than Venus, had till now received the most attention from researchers, but this new survey relegates them to second place.

The real fairy kings of the skies are the elves, it turns out.

Elves, it seems, like it wet and warm. Wherever the sea surface temperature exceeded 26˚C, Chen found elves. "The warm ocean surface can provide the heat source needed to drive intense oceanic lightning with very high peak currents, which generate elves in the ionosphere," he says.

Sprites, however, are thought to require lightning with an overall higher charge. This means they simply accompany the most powerful category of flashes, and since most flashes happen over land, sprites cluster there, too.

Umran Inan (http://www-star.stanford.edu/%7Evlf/umran.html), an elf and sprite expert at Stanford University, California, says it is particularly interesting that elves may have an important global effect on the lower ionosphere and the total electron content.
Chen says the models show that elf hotspots may increase the electron density of the ionosphere by up to 5% which "could interfere with ground and space communication as well as navigation," he says.


In other words, elves are evil.

[AtkinsSJ]

Crazy American University professors. You can get a degree in burgerology these days.

[grim3vil]

i have my PHD in burgerology its not crazy >:(

[drgamer]

Well, to be fair, the FULL article is here (http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14581-atmospheric-homes-of-elves-and-sprites-revealed.html?DCMP=ILC-arttsrhcol&nsref=specrt12_pic)

[puffazoid]

UNICORNS AND FAIRYS ARE REAL! I better go get my broadsword and chain mail and slay the dragon!! They came from VEEENNNUSSS!

[Blackduck]

Coolguy is from Venus too.

[AtkinsSJ]

Sprites won't exist until long after the 60-minute war. And then they're just discharges of energy left over from when MEDUSA explodes. Elves? Nah.
Obscure references ftw!

[SpiderPumpkin]

Photographic evidence of Sprites. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/BrownEyedSue/sprite.jpg)

Btw:
I better go get my broadsword and chain mail and slay the dragon!!
Why? The dragon never did anything to you, did it? >:|

[Redbone]

http://www.rene-borst.de/sprite.jpg

[SpiderPumpkin]

http://www.rene-borst.de/sprite.jpg
That picture is clearly faked.

[drgamer]

Photographic evidence of Sprites. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/BrownEyedSue/sprite.jpg)

Btw:

Why? The dragon never did anything to you, did it? >:|


*imagines female dragons*

[SpiderPumpkin]

*imagines female dragons*
You need to imagine them? I can just look at pictures of them on my harddrive :D

[drgamer]

Did you put them in your furry folder?

I haven't looked into it yet :p

EDIT: And perhaps I wasn't thinking of that kind of female dragon :p

[Mr.Onion]

Did you put them in your furry folder?

I haven't looked into it yet :p

EDIT: And perhaps I wasn't thinking of that kind of female dragon :p
I'm sorry, Mr. Chrome, but I can't let you jeopardize the mission.


EDIT: Uhh, speaking of which, I totally quoted the wrong post.

[Redbone]

That picture is clearly faked.
The title is sprites exist, so it's real.

[Coolguy]

Sprites won't exist until long after the 60-minute war. And then they're just discharges of energy left over from when MEDUSA explodes. Elves? Nah.
Obscure references ftw!

Only anti-tractionist spies make obscure references! VOTE: Atkins

[Redbone]

Agreed, VOTE: AtkinsSJ

[PlasmaCannonsRule]

No. Atkins must never die!

[Redbone]

A mind controlled imposted! UNVOTE and VOTE: PlasmaCannonsRule.

[AtkinsSJ]

The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew tree are of equal duration, Coolguy.

[drgamer]

But are they during the time when anthro dragons rule?

[AtkinsSJ]

...


No. Anthro-dragons rule when there's funny stuff in the water.

[SpiderPumpkin]

Anthro-dragons rule when there's funny stuff in the water.
http://www.backyardcitypools.com/Images/BWP/NT267-Giant-Ducky-Float.jpg

Anthro dragons rule.

[Connor S.]

What a twist!

[drgamer]

We're putting balloon animals in the water now?

[Julian]

Not the balloon animal, silly, the PERSON! :P

[drgamer]

There's a person named twist?

[AtkinsSJ]

No, the person is doing the twist. Which is quite a lobster, given they're also sitting opn an inflatable duck.

[regeneratorizer]

It's all rather confusing, really.

[drgamer]

Well, Balloon animals were simply designed, to have complex twists.