Your Questions About Stream River Ocean

Freshwater, Brackish or Saltwater fishing?

Which do you prefer? Fishing in a lake, ocean, river, stream, pond, etc, etc?!?

How many of you fear/hate lightning? How can you when it helps the atmosphere? That’s what being “Green” is?

If you are a “Green earth” bleeding heart, are you scared of, or hate lightning? If you do hate lightning but claim to want what’s best for the Earth, how can you hate lightning?

It is now known that lightning helps greatly to fertilize the soil. Eighty percent of the atmosphere or sky is nitrogen, an essential food for plants. About 22,000,000 tons of this nutrient hovers over each square mile of the earth. But as it exists in the atmosphere nitrogen it is unusable by plants. Before plants can take life from it, it must undergo a series of chemical changes, like our digestive system. Lightning in the sky touches off this series of changes. Air particles are made white-hot by lightning. Under this intense heat, the nitrogen combines with the oxygen in the air to form nitrogen oxides that are soluble in water. The rain dissolves the oxides and carries them down to earth as dilute nitric acid. Reaching the earth, the nitric acid reacts with the minerals of the earth, there to become nitrates on which plants can feed. Since plants can feed and live, man and animals can feed on plants and live!

Here’s another important piece of info about lightning:

The sides of the Earth are enclosed by radiation. The lighting strikes help clear some of that up so we do not get a deadly dose of it! Lighting is VERY IMPORTANT for us to be able to live on this planet.
When water evaporates from the surface of earth from lakes, land, river, streams, ocean, ponds and from trees by transpiration, this rises into the atmosphere in the form of a gas by convection. As this warm air rises, cold air moves in and meets the warm moist air which causes the warm air to rise rapidly forming large, dense, tall towers of anvil shaped cumulonimbus clouds commonly known as thunderstorm clouds. Formed at a height between 15,000 to 25,000 feet above sea level, the water droplets are carried upward to a much cooler region until some of them are converted into ice (snow) particles.

During the thunderstorm, precipitation particles (water droplets and ice crystals) in the higher region of the clouds will then collide with each other as they rub against each other in strong currents of air. This strong air current here is due to the ascending (rising) and descending air in the updrafts and downdrafts of the storm (click here for diagram). As a result, this colliding and rubbing of many water droplets and ice crystals creates a static electrical charge. Thus, causing areas of negative and positive charge to develop within the thunderstorm. Some of the ice (snow) crystals and water droplets will therefore become positively charged (+ plus sign), while others become negatively charged( – minus sign). The positive and negative electrical charges in the cloud then separate from each other where the positively charged snow crystals moves to the upward top section of the storm cloud while the heavier negative charge ice crystal and water droplets drops to the lower section of the cloud.

When the difference in the charges at the lower section of the cloud becomes large enough, whereby reaching a certain strength, a giant “spark” occurs causing the flow of electricity (electrical energy ) to be released through the air to another point that has an opposite charge. This release of electrical energy is called a leader stroke which may be from one cloud to another (Cloud-to-Cloud Lightning) or from one section of the cloud to another (In-Cloud Lightning) or from cloud to the ground (Cloud-to-Ground Lightning). Once a connection is made and the path is complete, a surge of electrical current moves in the opposite direction back to the cloud and produce a flash of light which we call lightning. This process is called the main stroke.

So, if you hate lightning, you obviously hate the earth. Or are you just an ignorant jerk who believes in Global Warming?
ROFL Carol you got two followers to mirror you.

One: Trees give off a very low amount of Oxygen. Sea Algae gives 70-80% of our oxygen.

Two: Lightning rarely strikes trees. You only hear, read about it because when lightning strikes a field or the ocean no one reports it.

Lightning always tries to take the easiest path to the ground. SOMETIMES but not very often do trees get in the way.

It’s nice to know that some people think knowledge about nitrates are the only important piece of information to take from this. Lot of libtard demoncrats are around today, though. Must’ve gotten a call from their friends about yesterday.
And General, I disagree. If you fear lightning, that is completely illogical considering its frequency and all the details that go along with it. It makes you less of an environmentalist because it absorbs people in an emotion instead of dealing with a problem in a more thought out, rational way. But I give you a thumbs up because, yeah, you can’t really get rid of lightning.

How long does it take water to circulate throughout the earth’s ocean currents?

Not counting the rivers and streams of the water cycle, I was curious how long approx it takes water to travel around the earth. (I figure calculating speed * length of each current should give me a really ballpark figure – but I can’t find those initial figures)