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qualiaqualia@floofy.tech
Sep 30, 2026, 6:50 AM
TIL active lightning rods are a thing. look at this angry bastard. it tries to, faster than Zeus himself, fire its own lightning (early streamer emission innit) back at the sky to beckon a strike to hit it instead of something more important. long live the fantastical hubris of NF C 17-102
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qualiaqualia@floofy.tech
Sep 30, 2026, 7:02 AM
learned abt these bc before we were injection-molding marx-generator-field-mill-esp32s into heaven-taunting god-tasers, we got up to enhancing our field distortions the old fashioned way: lotsa exposed radioactive material! fsr these aren't used as much anymore
photos from https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/products-not-in-collection/lightning-rod-arrestor.html
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