Richard Rogers

@daddyfool.bsky.social

Graphic Designer type working in print and web for third sector/environmental dogoodcreative.co.uk Glasgow, Scotland.

Whoa. That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today. With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.

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For anyone about to refer to the storm, this is the old style of cargo ship hatch for which battens are required to secure it for sea (regardless of storms). Battens secure the canvas over the hatchboards and are themselves held in place by wedges hammered in behind the cleats. #BattenDownTheHatches

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