And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If you ever get the chance, watch one at night, with a Gen II or better night vision device.
Naked eyes only, you think it's flashing every few seconds, like the occasional M80.
With NVGs, you see that it's more like an endless string of firecrackers, literally a dynamo of electricity in Nature's own blender, with a constant maelstrom of strikes everywhere.
Summer monsoon in AZ is quite something to behold.
ReplyDeleteIf you ever get the chance, watch one at night, with a Gen II or better night vision device.
ReplyDeleteNaked eyes only, you think it's flashing every few seconds, like the occasional M80.
With NVGs, you see that it's more like an endless string of firecrackers, literally a dynamo of electricity in Nature's own blender, with a constant maelstrom of strikes everywhere.
It's absolutely amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNfQqkZzBqs
night side low earth orbit imagery is most awe inspiring. but definitely shock and awe when seen from any vantage point
DeleteGod: Screw this lizard, this lizard too... oh hell damn dung beetle too!
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