Question about the 'petrified lightning' I saw in a museum in Florida

I thought fulgurite was just a weird glass tube, but seeing a piece from a 1994 lightning strike that fused a whole patch of sand convinced me it's a legit geological record of a single instant.

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margaret6927mo ago

That museum display sounds awesome. Seeing the actual scale of it makes a huge difference compared to just reading a description. Totally changes how you see the whole thing.

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johnson.jade7mo ago

Totally, pictures never do it justice.

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nguyen.piper7mo ago

Yeah, you really have to be there.

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