What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting-20260506/

#HackerNews #lightning #science #weather #phenomena #nature #discovery

Interesting sight this morning. I was swimming at the community pool around 5:20 AM, when I saw a very bright light fall from the sky, like a quiet dead weight, straight down. It was westward but still looked near. I figured Palm Springs was hit. Normally, I see shooting stars when I'm swimming, but they swish across the sky at great speed, rather than fall straight down.

Have no idea what it was. A dead satellite? A curious drone? The alien ship for Spielberg's new movie? If people start showing up with vacant faces from the desert, then it'll be the latter.

#phenomena #meteorites #satellites #drones #ufos #brightlights #desert #looktotheskies #SilentSunday

These are not separate #phenomena.
They are parallel #expressions of the same #structural #collapse.

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/01/mapping-violent-coded-porn-to-human-rights-regression/

IllestPhenomena

Video: https://youtu.be/D-m6oy4xRdw

Blog: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/wccc-phenomena

#visualpoem #WCCC #wccchallenge #Livecoding #CreativeCoding #choreography #Phenomena

For this week's Creative Code challenge by @sableraph : “Phenomena”, IllestPhenomena leans into a couple of Phenomena that occur in the digital and physical world from Walking and animation to Vision and Audio. Coded with #SonicPi & #HydraVideoSynth with additional digital art techniques.

#Poem

Phenomena, What are you expecting?
Pitchy Sounds? Glitchy Rounds?
Pixels ReDirecting,
Code Resonating And/Or Evaporating?
Phenomena, What is Illest Crafting?

IllestPhenomena Design:

This Hydra Sketch poses what Phenomena's may occur in a realm , where refraction and sight is reimagined alongside a SonicPi composition.

Also there is potential research that shows there is a phenomenon that occurs when watching experimental animation: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/social-media-videos-cure-brain-rot-film-study-1236564740/ . With that in mind, I decided to tap in extra into the experimental side

#creativecoding #coding #soundscape #worldbuilding #scifi #animation #glitchart #speculativedesign #VIdeography #remix

Love, Structure, and the Integration of Knowledge

https://sensible-universe.com/2026/04/22/love-structure-and-the-integration-of-knowledge/

Off topic somewhat...

... I have a suspicion that witholding UAP/UFO disclosure is not because of the potential dangers of ontological shock often suggested by various researchers and whistleblowers. I feel that it's about control.

For example, a truth which if unlocked to become an widespread knowledge would shift the balance of power from the few to the wider population.

Coming from my own experiences, I would also suspect that there's a strong spiritual connection to these phenomena too.

#UAP #UFO #Phenomena