<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : lightning : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Terawatt Laser Beam Shot in the Clouds Provokes Lightning Strike]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/58355/1/" /><id>58355</id><summary><![CDATA[Terawatt Laser Beam Shot in the Clouds Provokes Lightning Strike]]></summary><issued>2008-04-15T11:02:47+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-15T11:02:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In New Mexico, U.S., scientists tested a new ultra-high-power laser which provoked lightning. Scientists fired ultra-fast pulses from an extremely powerful laser thus sending several terawatts into the clouds to call down electrical discharges in storm clouds over the region.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Lightning bolt hitting a plane]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33790/1/" /><id>33790</id><summary><![CDATA[Lightning bolt hitting a plane]]></summary><issued>2007-08-30T15:19:56+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-30T15:19:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A picture and a short video clip showing a lightning bolt striking an aeroplane taking off, then hitting the ground.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Woman struck by lightning: Amazing footage]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/68935/1/" /><id>68935</id><summary><![CDATA[Woman struck by lightning: Amazing footage]]></summary><issued>2008-07-16T09:46:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-16T09:46:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A woman who filmed the moment she was hit by lightning has spoken of her terror as the strike passed through her body.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[U.S. diver dies after lightning hits air tank]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28981/1/" /><id>28981</id><summary><![CDATA[U.S. diver dies after lightning hits air tank]]></summary><issued>2007-07-26T03:43:08+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-26T03:43:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 36-year-old diver was killed off a Florida beach after lightning struck his air tank.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Religious Book Seller Struck By Lightning ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26816/1/" /><id>26816</id><summary><![CDATA[Religious Book Seller Struck By Lightning ]]></summary><issued>2007-07-10T07:11:57+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-10T07:11:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A man making a trip from Puerto Rico to South Florida to raise money for his religious education remains hospitalized Monday after he was struck down by a bolt of lightning which flew from clear blue sky on Sunday. He was selling religious materials when he was hit. [Can't seem to find the Irony category]]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Biker's penis hit by lightning]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/36623/1/" /><id>36623</id><summary><![CDATA[Biker's penis hit by lightning]]></summary><issued>2007-09-24T23:19:13+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-24T23:19:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An unlucky Croatian motorbike rider was knocked unconscious when lightning struck his penis as he stopped for a quick roadside toilet break. OK, let the &quot;Lightning Rod&quot; jokes begin...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Lightning Strike Survivor Becomes Father Against The Odds]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45620/1/" /><id>45620</id><summary><![CDATA[Lightning Strike Survivor Becomes Father Against The Odds]]></summary><issued>2007-12-31T11:45:15+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-31T11:45:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Campbell Gillespie was struck by lightning four years ago.  Barely surviving the strike, the injuries he sustained left him with no sense of taste or smell and, according to doctors, completely sterile.<br/><br/>Proving them wrong (or in an incredibly ostentatious act of cuckoldry), his partner Hazel Topping gave birth to a son this morning.<br/><br/>Link to an earlier story <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7149839.stm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A Jogger Wearing iPod Struck by Lightning]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/27133/1/" /><id>27133</id><summary><![CDATA[A Jogger Wearing iPod Struck by Lightning]]></summary><issued>2007-07-12T08:46:06+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-12T08:46:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A man wearing his iPod during a thunderstorm was hurled eight feet into the air when lightning hit a tree close by. The burns covering the man's chest, neck and ear coincided with the positions of his iPod earphones he was wearing at the moment of the lightning strike.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Lightning exits from woman's bum]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/38039/1/" /><id>38039</id><summary><![CDATA[Lightning exits from woman's bum]]></summary><issued>2007-10-11T16:40:23+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-11T16:40:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Croatian woman was left with a severely burned anus after a lightning strike which entered through her mouth left her body through her bottom.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Amazing pictures: The lightning storm that engulfed an erupting volcano]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/60940/1/" /><id>60940</id><summary><![CDATA[Amazing pictures: The lightning storm that engulfed an erupting volcano]]></summary><issued>2008-05-07T09:16:14+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-07T09:16:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As clouds of toxic ash and dust tower into the sky, they ionise the air, generating an explosive electrical storm. Colossal forks of lightning spark around the noxious plume as it spews from the volcano's crater, creating an image of raw, terrifying energy - as if the air itself were ablaze. Video of the eruption <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/geology/l/60851/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Amazing moment the world's biggest Christ was struck by lightning]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/50266/1/" /><id>50266</id><summary><![CDATA[Amazing moment the world's biggest Christ was struck by lightning]]></summary><issued>2008-02-12T10:41:44+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-12T10:41:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This amazing photograph gives whole new meaning to the phrase &quot;May God strike me with lightning if ...&quot; Rio de Janeiro's world-famous statue of Christ the Redeemer was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm over the Brazilian city on Sunday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Lightning passes through a NH woman's nose ring]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/68477/1/" /><id>68477</id><summary><![CDATA[Lightning passes through a NH woman's nose ring]]></summary><issued>2008-07-11T16:00:46+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-11T16:00:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A New Hampshire woman is feeling pretty lucky after a lightning bolt struck her body and apparently exited through her nose ring.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Some lightning strikes originate from the mouth of volcanoes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/11492/1/" /><id>11492</id><summary><![CDATA[Some lightning strikes originate from the mouth of volcanoes]]></summary><issued>2007-02-24T09:24:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-24T09:24:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Volcanoes can trigger earthquakes, avalanches and devastating lava flows. Add to this list lightning, which has now been detected striking from the mouth of a mountainous beast.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Awesome Lightning Shots From Mountain Top]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24983/1/" /><id>24983</id><summary><![CDATA[Awesome Lightning Shots From Mountain Top]]></summary><issued>2007-06-24T06:07:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-24T06:07:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Must See!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Lightning Hits Church Steeple- Twice]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36026/1/" /><id>36026</id><summary><![CDATA[ Lightning Hits Church Steeple- Twice]]></summary><issued>2007-09-18T08:33:44+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-18T08:33:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Two lightning strikes on the same day didn't topple the steeple of the 117-year-old Newman United Methodist Church but they exposed something that might have. They blew out the siding and exposed dry rot that might have brought the steeple down.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood, twins!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58881/1/" /><id>58881</id><summary><![CDATA[Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood, twins!]]></summary><issued>2008-04-18T16:13:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-18T16:13:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Twin lightning bolt tattoos, that is.<br/><br/>That saying that pets and owners start to look alike makes me wonder...Which one is the pet?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What is lightning? How does it work? Why is it dangerous?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/24262/1/" /><id>24262</id><summary><![CDATA[What is lightning? How does it work? Why is it dangerous?]]></summary><issued>2007-06-18T07:32:48+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-18T07:32:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The basic questions answered about that fearsome flash that is particularly common in the summer months.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Lightning from around the world]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11162/1/" /><id>11162</id><summary><![CDATA[Lightning from around the world]]></summary><issued>2007-02-20T07:09:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-20T07:09:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It would be better if they mentioned where the pics were taken.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientists create and record ball lightning in a lab, for the first time]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/8872/1/" /><id>8872</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientists create and record ball lightning in a lab, for the first time]]></summary><issued>2007-01-10T20:36:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-01-10T20:36:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[They also discovered the true cause of this mysterious and rare phenomenon.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Spacecraft Observes Powerful Electrical Storm on Saturn]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60763/1/" /><id>60763</id><summary><![CDATA[Spacecraft Observes Powerful Electrical Storm on Saturn]]></summary><issued>2008-05-06T05:42:58+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-06T05:42:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes Saturn's electrical storm with lightning 10,000 more powerful than the lightning on Earth. The area, where the storm occured, was dubbed &quot;Storm Alley.&quot;]]></content></entry></items></xml>