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Can a bullet fired into the storm cloud cause lightning to strike? (startrek.website)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m just curious during thunderstorm, if anyone tried to fire a bullet during storm into clouds? Will the lightning strike the bullet? Mythbusters or someone else maybe did that ?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It seems plausible that the vapor trail of changing air pressure behind a bullet could create a momentary channel of increased conductivity and/or particle density as air rushes back into the void created by the passing projectile. I wonder if the effect is persistent enough to enable a static discharge all along the path though.