What if NASA offered you a chance to go to Mars? Would you go?

DO YOU WANT TO GO TO MARS?
A lot of people, including myself, really love outer space. But, do you really want to go there? Probably not!

If NASA called you and gave you the chance to be one of only a dozen people to go on the first trip to Mars, would you go?
It sounds cool. I have always wanted to go to outer space. That would be so awesome to spend one day in space. If, it only took a few hours to get to Mars, that would be cool to.
But, be careful what you wish for, because, you might get your wish!
On the space station, they recycle water. In other words, the water they use to flush the toilet gets filtered and cleaned. Then it goes back into a tank and the Astronauts drink that water! Then, they pee it out into the toilet, it gets filtered again, goes back into the holding tank and repeats the process over and over again! Yuck!
They lose muscle mass, because, in almost 0 gravity, you don't get to work your muscles very much. They have to exercise 2 hours a day to prevent muscle loss.
Food doesn't taste the same in space as it does on Earth.
What would you do if you can out of food or if the food you have with you spoiled or rotted and it was no longer safe to eat? The nearest grocery store is about 35,000 miles away, on Earth.
It is a very small space on a rocket, space shuttle or the ISS. It would get boring up there in those cramped quarters. If there is someone up there with you that you don't get along with, that would suck for you! It will take about 5 or 6 months to get to Mars with today's technology. You'll be on the planet for probably 6 months to a year, then a 6 month long trip back to Earth. All that time, you'd be with someone you hate!
The closest Doctor to you will be on Earth! If you get sick or injured, you are on your own. You will be able to call the Doctor on Earth and talk to him, but, he can't give you any prescription medication, stitch up a wound, put a cast on a broken bone, perform surgery or anything like that!
Mars is much smaller than Earth. That means there will be less gravity. That will have an affect on your weight, the amount of pressure and stress on your Spine, how you walk and other things. Astronauts have no stress on their spine on the International Space Station. In fact, while their in space, their spine stretches out and the Astronauts are about an inch or two taller in space. After 6 months, they come back to Earth and the Earth's gravity pulls their spine down and puts stress on it again. That causes back pain.
There are a lot of dust storms up there. The wind blows the Red, Iron Oxide all around and it will be hard to see. The wind might even blow you around as well. You will be much lighter on Mars than on Earth.
(The surface of the planet is made up of Iron Oxide, which is basically rust from iron, just like on a car. That's what gives Mars it's red color.)
You'll have to wear a space suit everywhere you go. You might get a hole in your suit, which you can't just fix with duct tape. You could also run out of Oxygen or have problems with your O2 tank. Either one of those things: a hole in your suit or problems with your Oxygen, would be life threatening.
It is very cold and dusty up there on Mars. The atmosphere doesn't stop Metiors or harmful UV Ray's, Gamma Ray's, X Ray's, and other harmful things from space as well as the Earth's atmosphere does.
If your space ship breaks down, there's no one there to fix it and no way for it to be fixed. You would never make it back home to Earth.
I am sure you'd have to sign a waiver before you went to Mars, saying you know all the risks you're taking and if anything happens to you your family can't sue!
On the bright side, you would die famous. You would always be known as one of the first people to ever land on Mars. NASA would probably name a satellite after you, your birthday might become a national holiday, people would write books and movies about you and your name would be as famous as Neil Armstrong, Galileo, Stephen Hawking and Edwin Hubble.

The origin of the word: "SNIPER".

Sniper:
Years ago, up until the 1800s, there was a species of bird called a Snipe. Yes, there actually was a bird called a Snipe.
Hunters back then had a single shot Musket. They could fire only one shot, then it took a few minutes to reload.
If these birds saw or heard any signs of danger or people out hunting them, they wouldn't land and if they were on the ground, they would get up and fly away and they would not come back for a really long time.
A person who who hunted Snipe was referred to as a: "Sniper".
The term sniper is still used in law enforcement and military today.
The Sniper had to hide really well in the woods so these birds would not see them and fly away.
Snipers in the Army today say, "One shot one kill". That's one of their mottos.
This was true for a Snipe Hunter back then to, he only had one shot. If he didn't shoot the bird with that one shot, his day of hunting was over.
Today, most Species of Snipe, possibly even all of them are extinct. If there are any left, they are highly endangered.
In Boy Scouts, they have a joke that the really dumb People fall for. They take someone on a Snipe hunt. They give that person a bag and walk far out into the woods. Then, the prankster tells the idiot, "You wait here, I'll run over here into the bushes and Chase out the Snipes. When you see them running out, take the bag and catch the Snipe in the bag.
The victim is anxiously waiting to see a bunch of Snipe come running out of the bushes hoping he can catch at least one.
But, the prankster very quiet sneak away and goes back to camp. He just wait to see how long it takes before the victim figures out that he has literally been
"Left holding the bag"! This is also the how we got that Expression.

My revenge!

I have gotten revenge on a lot of people.
Most notably, Two former Teachers. One from 4th grade and the other from 7th grade. I thought for years about what I was going to do to those stupid Teachers. Finally, when I got my driver's license and I was able to go do things on my own and nobody would know what I was doing, I went on a recon mission. I found these Teacher's addresses and phone numbers in the phone book. Then I headed out to gain all the information I could get on the Teachers that I hated.
I drove past their houses, thinking I could come back and toilet paper them or something.
Unfortunately, booth houses were in neighborhoods where the houses were really close together and there were a lot of houses around and there was a lot of light!   I think one of them or one of their neighbors had a dog running around outside. So, vandalizing their houses, slashing their car tires, dumping poison on their grass, breaking the windows on their houses and cars and other things like that, which I was considering doing, those were no longer options. ☹️
I spent the next month planning.
I considered Everything you could possibly think of, hiding in the woods a half mile away and "Sniping them off" when they walked out the door, just like a military sniper. I thought about getting other people involved and having them do my dirty work. That was too risky. Why would you tell someone that you are going to harm another person or seek revenge on somebody! I didn't want any witnesses!
This was before we had the Internet. So, I went to the book store and got a few books about REVENGE.
I did some research and talked to some friends. I didn't tell anyone what I was up to, I didn't tell anyone that I was planning my revenge. But, I just casually asked what they've done to seek revenge. Some people had some good stories.
Ultimately, I ended up going back to the bookstore. I got a newspaper, which is the only thing I bought. The newspaper wasn't important, I just needed something to put order forms in from magazines.
I looked at ALL the magazines and took the order forms out of every magazine I could find. I stuck the order forms inside the newspaper. Then, I paid for the newspaper and left.
I had order forms from every magazine you can think of, from Sesame Street to Play Boy and everything in between! I had Newsweek, Time, Detroit Free Press, New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Penthouse, Playboy, Playgirl, medical magazines, Army Times, High Times,
Homosexual magazines, religious magazines, etc, etc, etc!
I probably had order forms from over 50 different magazines.
Now, I was ready for phase one of my plan.
I spent a long time filling out order forms in these Teacher's names!
I sent all those order forms, I didn't stop there, every time I found another magazine, at home, school, at someone else's house, in the store, anywhere, I grabbed the order forms out of it and filled them out in these Teacher's names! That was so much fun!
Phase 2, kicking them when their down.
Then, I called the local newspapers for my home town of: Grand Ledge, MI and the surrounding cities of: Lansing, Charlotte, Portland, Mulliken, Westphalia and a few other cities within a 35 mile radius. I put adds in all of those newspapers saying that their houses were for sale! I also said they had some really nice cars for sale at very ridiculously low prices. I put some other adds in the paper with their names on them to. I also put in the adds: "Please call between: 9:00-11:00 PM!"
On to phase 3 of my revenge. Adding insult to injury!
Late at night, I drove past both houses. I blasted my radio, spun my tires, screamed obcenities out the window, blew a really loud whistle, threw firecrackers, launched bottle rockets at their houses, threw glass bottles in their driveway, threw trash in their yard and made sure, I ruined their night of sleep! I also made a mess in their yards and put broken glass on their driveways!
Phase 4, The final assault.
I called them at all hours of the day and night. Sometimes I called them at home and sometimes at work.
I called the school office and said I need to talk to Mr Johnson and Mrs Smith (Not their real names).
The school secretary would usually say, "They are teaching their class now, can I take a message?"
I said, "It's urgent!"
They called the Teacher to the office to take the call.
When the Teacher picked up the phone, I have an evil, psychotic laugh and hung up!
Then, I called in the middle of the night and in the evening and on the weekend, when I knew they'd be home. I'd usually just hang up. But, one time I called and said to them both, "I know where you live! I know where you work! I know what your car looks like! You usually park in the same spot at work! To leave at the same time for work every day! I've been watching you! I hate you! I'm going to get you!!!! You're a stupid, worthless piece of shit!"
Both of them sounded really scared now!
Both of their responses were about the same.
In a really scared sounding voice, they said, "Who is this? Why are you harassing me!"
I said, "I'm your worse nightmare! Someone you should of never *?&$#@ with!" You've pissed off the wrong person! Because I hate you now and I'm going to get you!" Have a nice day!" Then I laughed some more and hung up!
That's probably the only time I ever said anything to them on the phone. The rest of the time, I either just gave them an evil laugh or just hung up the phone.
Keep in mind, this was before caller ID existed.
For a few years after I finished my revenge, I still continued to send them more magazines anytime I found one that I hadn't sent them yet! That was just for a little extra fun.
Keep in mind, these were the worst People I have ever met in my life and they were psychotic, mean to students and other people in general and sorry ass excuses for human beings! They really should be sitting in prison for the rest of their lives!

(BTW: I didn't smash their mailboxes or spray paint their houses. Those are pictures of someone else's revenge!)

TV infomercials:

All infomercials are stupid! They are a waste of time and money. Everything on them is a cheap gimmick that's not worth anything. It will break probably by the third time you use it!
That's why, when I'm in a store and I see something that says: "As seen on TV on the box, I stay away from it!
I have bought three things in my entire life from Walmart that said As seen on TV on them. I thought, "Well, if they showed this on TV, it's got to be good."
I brought them home and 1st, they weren't as easy to use as they said on the box or on TV.
2. They didn't do "EXACTLY" what they promised to do. They came close, but, not exactly what they promised to do. In fact, sometimes they came barely close enough to where you wouldn't be able to sue them! The company would win the law suit if you did try to sue.
3. They broke very quickly. It will work fine the first 3 Times, but, the 4th time, it will break!
4. It is basically false advertising and they use some stupid, loud mouth idiot like Billy Mays getting people's attention and getting them excited about a piece of junk.
5. If they have to show the stupid infomercials at 0300 in the morning, when most people aren't even awake to see it anyway, you know there's something wrong with that!
It's cheaper to show things on TV after Midnight, especially at 3:00 AM, when very few people are going to see it anyway.
6. When they show stupid, cheap things on TV on a dumb infomercial, that ruins things for anything good that someone may show on TV.
Yes, there a lot of good things in this world. But, with the bad reputation that infomercials have, I don't care what they put on an infomercial, I don't trust it at all and I won't buy it!
Those infomercials have a paradoxical affect on things. They show something on there to get people to trust it, make us think that it will be something good and convince us that we actually NEED this piece of junk that they are advertising. But, when we see it on a TV, infomercial, we actually have less trust in the product! Just because it was advertised on an infomercial with a loud mouth like Willy Maze trying to sell it!
7. They have a bunch of "Customers" who have bought the product that is being advertised and they are all saying it works really well and they love it!
You don't know anything about the people on there. Maybe they did try the product out and maybe they did like it, but, maybe they didn't like it and they are just saying they liked it.
Maybe they haven't tried this thing out at all. They might even be paid actors!
Think of it this way: If I offer to pay you $25,000 or  $500,000 you will get on TV and say anything I want you to say! If you know nothing about something I want to sell or if you tried it but did not like it, you will still get on TV, radio, newspapers and anywhere else I hire you to go and you will say anything I want you to say, just so you will get the money!
I would probably do it to, if someone paid me enough money.
8. Most of this stuff looks like it could be made out of good quality materials, but, they are only charging $19.99.
If it were made out of good quality materials that would last a long time, they would be charging three or even ten times more than what they want for it.
9. They often say, "If you call within the next Ten minutes, we'll double the offer, you won't get one, but, Two of these stupid things at no extra charge! You just pay the shipping.
When they double the order for "FREE", they still have to get the money for the second item that they give you for free somehow.
Now, you are actually paying $10.00 each for these things. It probably costs the company $1.00 to make this piece of junk! If they pay the company advertising it $1.00 for each one they sell, they are still making $18.00 on each one if they don't give the customer an extra one free. $8.00 on the ones People bought "within the next Ten minutes". Because, they gave them a freebie.
If they want you to buy something in a hurry, in the next Ten minutes, for example, that doesn't give you enough time to think about it before you buy. If they want you to just buy something really fast, it's probably a scam!

When you see something advertised like this on TV, they will always try to make it sound too good to be true. If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is not as good as people say it is!
Think before you buy something you see on TV, newspapers or the Internet!
Never buy something directly off a TV infomercial!
Ask a few trusted friends or relatives about things you see on TV. More than like, someone you know, knows someone that knows someone else who has bought it already. They can give you an honest review on the product.
Read some online reviews or check with the Better Business Bureau, Ripoorepott.com and Attorney General's office for complaints about the product, the company that makes it and the person advertising it before you buy the product.
The things I bought that said: "As seen on TV" on them, I didn't buy them from the company advertising them on TV, I don't even watch those infomercials. I found them at Walmart. I was able to open the box and look at the items first. Otherwise I would of never bought them in the first place.
If you have a bad feeling about something you see on TV or anywhere else, trust your instincts and either don't buy it at all or at least investigate it first!

Jupiter.

The Earth would fit inside Jupiter 1324 times! It may not appear to be that much bigger than Earth, but, the way someone described it to me was: Because of the mass of Jupiter, it would be like a balloon, the planet would stretch , just like a balloon. Just like a balloon stretching to hold more water or anything else you put in it, Jupiter would, THEORETICALLY, stretch whenever you put something inside of it. It would stretch out enough to where All the other planets, including Pluto, would fit inside of it!
The famous, Great Red Spot is about Three times bigger than Earth.
It is a large storm that's been going on for over 300 years. It is currently, slowly shrinking. It spins counterclockwise at about 225 MPH (360 KPH). It is comparable to a hurricane.
Jupiter would fit inside the Sun 9 times.
It has a faint ring system. Scientists did not know about the rings until the Voyager Spacecraft got there. Voyager showed the rings for the first time. The rings are too faint to be seen with a Telescope. In fact, I have a really powerful Telescope and I can't see the ring with it. University of Central Florida in Cocoa, FL has the second largest Telescope in the state of FL and they can't see it with that scope.
It has, as of now, 69 confirmed Moons. Probably, more to be found.
Looking through my Telescope, I can see the color bands on the planet and Six of it largest Moons.
Since, Galileo invented his own Telescope and looked at Jupiter, and discovered 4 of these same Moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede & Callisto), they are called: Galileo Moons. Those are Jupiter's largest moons. The rest are too small to see from Earth.
(Unfortunately, someone else invented the Telescope, just a short period of time before Galileo invented his telescope. So, he can't claim credit for inventing it.)
There are some very violent storms on Jupiter. Mostly inside the planet. Lightning on this planet is much more powerful than what we experience here on Earth. Scientists believe that it rains Diamonds inside of Jupiter. Because of the heat and pressure inside of the giant ball of Gas. But, they can't prove it.
The composition of the planet is mostly: Hydrogen, Helium and Ammonia. It's believed to have a rocky and metallic core.
Since the planet spins so fast, it completes one rotation in 9.8 Earth hours.
The rapid rotation causes Jupiter to bulge at the Equator. The diameter at the Equator is: 88,846 Miles (142,948 K).
The diameter at the poles is: 83,082 Miles (133,708 K). The Scientific name for this shape is: An Oblate Spheroid.
Jupiter is a Brown Dwarf. A failed star. Since it is made up of the same elements as most stars. However, it would have to be 75 times more massive to cause nuclear fusion of Hydrogen and turn into a star.
The color bands around Jupiter are created by strong 400 MPH (640 K) winds flowing East to West in the planets upper atmosphere.
Jupiter has a huge magnetic field, larger than any other planets. It is also the strongest magnetic field in our Solar System. It's almost 20,000 times strong than the one here on Earth! It is more than 1,000 times the lethal dose of radiation for a human. This magnetic field damages every spacecraft that goes near it, even if it is heavily shielded. The magnetic field extends out between 600,000 - 2 Million Miles (1 Million - 3 Million  K) towards the Sun and forms a tail which extends over 600 Million Miles (1 Billion K) behind the planet.
At it's furthest point from the Sun Jupiter is 507.04 Million Miles away.
When it's closest to the Sun it's 460.24 Million Miles away.
It orbits the Sun at a speed of 29,205 MPH. Completing one rotation around the Sun in 11.86 Earth years.
The distance from Jupiter to Saturn depends on where they are in orbit. When they are on the same side of the Sun and at their closest point, they are approximately 5 Astronomical Units (AU) away from each other.
When they are on opposite sides of the Sun, they are about 15 AU away from each other.
(One AU is the average distance between the Sun and Earth. 93 Million Miles or 149,668,992 K).
Depending on where the Earth and Jupiter are in their orbits, Jupiter is between 4.2 and 6.2 AU away from Earth.
We are lucky to have a planet the size of Jupiter in our Solar System, because, being so big, it has a lot of gravity. It attracts a lot of Metiors and other things to it. So, rather than hitting Earth or the other planets, a lot of them hit Jupiter instead.
Imagine what might have happened if Shoemaker-Levy would of hit Earth.
The SL comet had been captured by Jupiter's gravity about 20 or 30 years before it broke into several large pieces and hit Jupiter in July of 1994. The fragments of the comet got too close to the planet on July 16, 1994. The first impact created a fireball larger than Earth! A total of 21 impacts were observed over the next six days. The largest one created a dark spot more than 7,456 Miles (12,000 K) across. The explosion it created was 6 Million Megatons of TNT. That's 600 times the worlds entire known nuclear arsenal at that time, according to: www.americaspace.com.
A comet or meteor that size hitting Earth would quickly put an end to all life on Earth! In fact, most Scientists believe that it was a large meteor that crashed into Earth 65,000,000 years ago that killed off the Dinosaurs.

For anyone asking: Why does the US need to have a SPACE FORCE?

FOR ANYONE WHO IS WONDERING WHY WE NEED A SPACE FORCE:

    I'm pretty sure there was a time when people said: "Why do we need a Navy? Why do we need an Air Force? What good are those going to do? That's a waste of money!
Why are they spending Billions of dollars creating Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, Army Rangers, Delta Force and similar things? That's a waste of money! They are wasting my tax dollars on this!
Why are they spending so much money on building nuclear weapons? That could destroy the whole world in just a few minutes!
The enemy can and does attack the US and other countries from the air and water. That's why we need Air Force and Navy.
There's things going on in the world everyday that you and I will never know about. We have enemies all over the world. People are constantly thinking of things they can do to attack another country. Delta Force is a top secret military organization that, up until Clinton was in office, we weren't even supposed to know about. The government denied its existence completely. Bill Clinton hinted that there might be an organization like that, but that's all I'm going to say.
They are constantly protecting the world from terrorists.
Navy Seals and Special Forces take most of the missions that are way too difficult, dangerous and top secret for any other military units to take on.
SEALS killed Bin Laden, for instance.
The reason we have nukes is to PREVENT nuclear wars from ever happening in the first place. How? N. Korea, Russia, Iran and all other countries that don't like the US, they all know that the US invented both Atomic and Nuclear weapons. They also know that the US has more of them than most other countries. I'm sure there's probably a country somewhere in the world that probably has more than we do, but, the US has more than 99.999% of other countries in the world. They know better than to launch a nuke at the US or our allies. Because, the US can and will track their missiles coming in from tracking devices in space and on the ground. If they launch ONE single nuke at us, the President will first, launch about 20, multiwarhead missiles on their country and turn them into a pile of rubble!
Technology is changing really fast all over the world and we need a new way to fight crime, terror, illegal immigration, drugs, nuclear war, the list goes on and on.
Just like Science Fiction movies from the 1980's and even ling before that predicted, we would be in space by the year 2000. Well, we're late getting into space! 18 years late, but, it was inevitably going to happen.
Not only should we have a military presence in space, but also, a lot more Scientists should be up there studying the Earth and it's atmosphere.
As soon as the US gets a military presence in space, other countries will do the same. Our enemies will be up there to.
From outer space, you can see an entire continent, so, instead of an airplane flying over the ground between 300 feet to 5 miles off the ground, they have satellites and troops 20,000 miles or more above the ground. They will be able to look down and see everything. The enemy won't be able to hide very easily on the ground anymore.
The US and rest of the world will be forced to invent new technologies to keep up with the Space Force. When a Scientist tries to invent something specific, they will have to work on it for a long time. In the process, they will accidentally discover and invent other things. That is how we got the Lazer and the Microwave along with Millions of other things.
There is a lot of "Space Junk" flying around in space. It's all over up there. A lot is in orbit around Earth. That could crash in on us and cause a lot of problems. Space Force can protect us from that and try to find a way to clean it up.
They will watch for Metiors and yes, even UFOs!
Space Force will be above the atmosphere of Earth, so, they will have a better, much clearer view of outer space. That will help us study Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry and other things.
They can even send FBI agents up to watch down on the ground, not just in the US, but, in other countries to, and they can track criminals before they run too far away. Then, hopefully, it won't take 10 years to find them, like it did to get Bin Laden!
There's probably a Million other good reasons to have a Space Force.

LIGHTNING TRIVIA:

Lightning can strike up to 20 Miles away from a thunderstorm.
When you see Lightning in the distance on a hot day, but, you don't hear thunder, that's because, there is a storm a long ways away. Too far for you to see the rain clouds or hear the thunder. This makes it look like the lighting is being caused by the heat. People often think it is the heat that is causing the lighting. It's often referred to as "Heat Lightning". But, Heat Lightning does not exist. It is regular lightning from a storm that's too far away for you to see the rain or hear the thunder.
Lightning strikes the Earth between 50 and 100 times per second! Astronauts have confirmed that as fact, because they can see the clouds light up in several different places around the world, all at the same time. They can see it from the space station.
Lightning can travel in all directions, most Lightning is cloud to cloud lightning and it doesn't hit the ground. On the ground it can travel straight down, up, or sideways. According to the Discovery Channel and some high speed video footage of lightning strikes, which you can see on YouTube, most Lightning travels from the ground up, NOT down from the clouds!
Lightning has between 1 Million and 1 Billion Volts.
In the movie: Back To The Future, they use the the word: "Jigowatt". There is no such thing as a Jigowatt. The actors mispronounced the word: "Gigawatt". Just like the computer term, Gigabyte- 1 Billion bytes, a Gigawatt is 1 Billion Watts.
When people get struck by lightning, they usually don't get hit directly by the bolt, usually, the lighting hits something else, if someone is touching the object that got hit, they get zapped. It can also "splash", or bounce off something it hits and hit someone. Sometimes, it hits the wet ground several feet away and if a person is standing on the ground near the strikes, electricity travels across the wet ground and hits them.
The record for the most times being struck by lightning lightning is 7 times! It was a park ranger. He lived to tell about it! However, he had Psychological and physical health problems after being struck that many times.
The lighting capital of the word as of 2016, according to NASA.gov, is: Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. They get an avg of 233 lightning strikes per square Km every year.
Before NASA researched this, The Congo Basin in Africa held the record for the most Lightning activity each year.
NASA conducted their research with: "The Lighting Image Sensor" (LIS) on the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission.
The lighting capital of the US is Tampa, FL. They have more Lightning than any US city. The word Tampa comes from the Clausa Tribe in the 16th century. The word Tampa means: "Sticks of Fire".
The Lighting Belt is an area of FL that extends from Tampa to Orlando and from Orlando down to Ft Myers and Lake Okeechobee. That  area of FL gets the most Lightning each year.
Lightning can generate heat up to 60,000 degrees F. That's 6 times hotter than the surface of the Sun!
Lightning kills more people than Hurricanes and Tornadoes combined every year.
NASA is not supposed to launch rockets through clouds, because, that could trigger lightning. However, I have seen them do it and the rockets did not cause lightning. Not the ones I saw.
Most commercial airplanes get struck by lightning at least once or more every year. Because of all the safety features on airplanes  to protect the plane and passengers from lightning, most people don't even know that the airplane was struck by lightning. In fact, planes can even trigger lightning.
Experts say that if lightning hits your car while you're in it, you should be safe. The force of the lighting will be absorbed by the outer frame of the car and you, theoretically, should not be affected by it. Unless you stick your arm out the window and touch something else that is touching the ground, then you'll get fried.
Lightning can be produced by other things besides rain, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, rockets and sometimes even a huge fire, which can also cause a fire tornado. That is a whirlwind caused by a fire. It sucks up the flame. Now the tornado is spinning around and it is actually spinning a flame around with it! Making it even more dangerous.l
Some other planets have storms on them and some of them also produce lightning. Jupiter has some of the most violent storms  in the Solar system. According to NASA, Lightning on Jupiter is much more powerful than what we experience on Earth.
(Most of this information comes from: Discovery Channel, NASA.gov, Orlandosentinel.com and Scientificamerican.com.)