#elve

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

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#ELVE OVER #ITALY: For a few milliseconds last Monday night, March 27th, an enormous red ring of light appeared in the sky over central Italy. Valter Binotto photographed it from the small town of Possagno in the foothills of the Italian Alps:

This is an "ELVE"--short for Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources. It's a rare species of sprite discovered in 1990 by cameras onboard the space shuttle. Binotto may have just taken the best ever picture of one from the ground.

"The ELVE was generated by intense lightning in a storm near Ancona about 285 km south of me," says Binotto. One bolt was so strong, it generated an intense electromagnetic pulse (EMP). The red ring marks the spot where the EMP hit Earth's ionosphere. Normal lightning bolts carry 10 to 30 kilo-ampères of current; this bolt was about 10 times stronger than normal.

Binotto created a graphic showing the scale of the ELVE:
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AN ELVE OVER ITALY: For a few milliseconds last Monday night, March 27th, an enormous red ring of light appeared in the sky over central Italy. Valter Binotto photographed it from the small town of Possagno in the foothills of the Italian Alps:

This is an "ELVE"--short for Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources. It's a rare species of sprite discovered in 1990 by cameras onboard the space shuttle. Binotto may have just taken the best ever picture of one from the ground.

"The ELVE was generated by intense lightning in a storm near Ancona about 285 km south of me," says Binotto. One bolt was so strong, it generated an intense electromagnetic pulse (EMP). The red ring marks the spot where the EMP hit Earth's ionosphere. Normal lightning bolts carry 10 to 30 kilo-ampères of current; this bolt was about 10 times stronger than normal.

Binotto created a graphic showing the scale of the ELVE:

"It was about 100 km high and nearly 360 km wide," says Binotto. "I have been photographing upper atmospheric lightning and transient luminous events (TLEs) since 2019, hundreds of them, and this is one of the biggest structures I have ever seen."

ELVE season is just getting started in Europe and North America, where spring and summer thunderstorms will multiply in the months ahead.

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anonymiss@despora.de

What's wrong with Elvy?

Obviously it is about the two upper Elves. The lower Elve is not real because she only plays a role in a fantasy movie.

So in the following I only refer to Elve 1 and 2...

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Elve 1 is apparently our ideal vision of an Elve. I have to admit that I have been walking around like Elve 1 in live roleplaying. I am so fucking conservative. But if you think what a cute, innocent Elven girl I have to say that the knife in her hand is not there to peel potatoes.

What's wrong with Elve 2? Her faked hair really doesn't upset anyone anymore, does it? The camera and the selfie could indicate a narcissistic personality disorder, but we are not psychologists, are we? Whoever is annoyed by the clothes, I can only say that we are no longer living in the Middle Ages.

The only thing that irritates me about Elve 2 is the face she makes.

This is a Japanese #Ahegao face: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahegao

I could accept this face if it is made to provoke. Mostly this face is made for #Likes and the girls usually don't know what it means. A similar story is told in the movie "Cuties" where young girls move especially sexy while dancing to get more Likes. This is the opposite of #emancipation, when you chum up to the #Internet #audience only for Likes. Especially if you have no idea what you are showing.


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