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Can a bullet fired into the storm cloud cause lightning to strike? (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by BigChungus@startrek.website to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I’m just curious during thunderstorm, if anyone tried to fire a bullet during storm into clouds? Will the lightning strike the bullet? Mythbusters or someone else maybe did that ?

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[–] 342345@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I don't know about bullets, but laser beams seem to work: https://www.sci.news/physics/laser-guided-lightning-11572.html