No, these things are not related.

It was not that many years ago when observations were made, incidentally as I recall, of radioactivity in the upper atmosphere above large thunderstorms. I remember this being sneered at like it was a claim of cold fusion or something. Within a couple of years, however, this phenomenon was better observed and better understood, and we now know that thunderstorms sometimes produce gamma rays in the upper atmosphere. Most recently, however, something even more astonishing and amazing has been observed: These upper atmosphere high energy loci actually produce antimatter.

Astonishing.

Speaking of astonishing things, do you remember Hanny’s Voorwerp? The giant green blob discovered as part of a citizen science project by a Dutch teacher in 2007? The giant green blob has been confirmed and imaged by Hubble. It is apparently a quasar that is no longer active.

Have you read the breakthrough novel of the year? When you are done with that, try:

In Search of Sungudogo by Greg Laden, now in Kindle or Paperback
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