# There's Lightning on Saturn!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-lightning-on-saturn/536140>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 14, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-lightning-on-saturn/536140 "2010-04-14T23:21:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-lightning-on-saturn/536140/1 "2010-04-14T23:21:55Z")

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Check this out:

[Lightning Flashing on Saturn](http://www.ciclops.org/view/6064/Lightning_Flashing_on_Saturn?js=1)

I never thought about it before, but the idea of lightning on another planet blows me away. Like that picture of a [volcano erupting on one of the moons of Jupiter](http://photos.merinews.com/newPhotoLanding.jsp?imageID=19338), it makes the planets more real, more familar, and really, really cool.

What other real-time natural processes are visible on other planets?

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-lightning-on-saturn/536140/2 "2010-04-14T23:25:05Z")

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Hmm sounds like Zeus and his daddy are going at it again.

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**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-lightning-on-saturn/536140/3 "2010-04-15T05:54:27Z")

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No! Don’t you see? It’s Morse Code. A signal to the invasion fleet!

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-lightning-on-saturn/536140/4 "2010-04-15T09:46:51Z")

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> [@Encinitas](#):
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> No! Don’t you see? It’s Morse Code. A signal to the invasion fleet!

DAMN THAT MORSE!

Will he _never_  
give up his invasion plans?

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**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-lightning-on-saturn/536140/5 "2010-04-15T12:52:59Z")

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> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> Like that picture of a [volcano erupting on one of the moons of Jupiter](http://photos.merinews.com/newPhotoLanding.jsp?imageID=19338), it makes the planets more real, more familar, and really, really cool.
> 
> What other real-time natural processes are visible on other planets?

One of my favorites…in this link:

> **[Science Made Stupid | PDF | Science | Science (General)](https://www.scribd.com/doc/14650088/Science-Made-Stupid)**
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> How to Discomprehend the World Around Us. 
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> Written & Illustrated by Tom Weller. 
>  
> To download in other formats, see: 
> http://www.chrispennello.com/tweller/

click the tiny text at the top that says “continue to page 18” and it’ll show you an “artist’s conception” of “ **Saturn’s rings, looking over the shoulder of a gerbil blown out of a volcano on Titan**.”