Thanks HydrogenBond for starting this thread and others for their ruminations, fascinating thoughts. I probably understand only 1/10th of what you say it still stirs my thoughts on the awesome processes around our planetary neighborhood and beyond. =-)
This is my favorite video clip online(takes a couple minutes to load on mine even with DSL). I watch it in full screen whenever I need a peaceful moment but belovelife's thought about something "more like a lightning bolt less like a tornado " reminded me of it. In the 25 day rotation of the SuninUV there are both solar hurricanes and lightening bolts(30 sec mark-8 o'clock position), just awesome. This leads to a second video clip(low quality phone video) that I would have thought was a hoax if I had not seen the SuninUV clip.... carry on!
http://www.orbitingfrog.com/blog/movies/SuninUV.mpg
