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nature's wildest scribble, charging the sky with a billion volts of pure attitude
means A bolt is a sudden flash of lightning, or more broadly any sharp, swift movement, a sliding metal fastener, or to dash off in a hurry.
from From Old English 'bolt,' a heavy arrow or crossbow dart — short, blunt, and fast. The leap from arrow to lightning is pure poetry: a thunderbolt was imagined as a divine arrow loosed from the sky. The same speed gave us 'to bolt' (to run like a shot arrow), while the door-bolt and the metal bolt borrow the image of a stout, shooting pin. Related to the German 'Bolzen,' meaning the same kind of stubby missile.
- hotter than sun
- Lightning hits 50,000°F, five times the sun's surface
- usain's namesake
- Fastest human shares his speed with electricity
- backward strike
- Lightning travels from ground up, not just down
- frozen sand
- Strikes fuse sand into glass tubes called fulgurites
- struck survivors
- Most lightning victims live, often with strange scars
usain bolt — jamaican sprinter, 100m world record 9.58 seconds (2009)
lightning bolt — electrical discharge, up to 1.21 billion volts in a thunderstorm
bolt action rifle — manual firearm with rotating bolt mechanism, used since 1898