Sprite
Sprite or SPRITE may refer to:
- a ghost, the spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living
- water sprites, such as the Neck (water spirit)
Abbreviations
Beverage
Biology
- Celaenorrhinus (typical sprites)
- Katreus (Giant Scarce Sprite)
- Loxolexis (scarce sprites)
Sprites (band)
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Sprites are an independent new wave/indie pop music group from Maryland, USA. Their lineup is ever-changing, with only the founding members (the husband-wife duo of Jason Korzen, formerly of Barcelona, and Amy Korzen) staying constant. Contributors include Christian Scanniello, Ivan Ramiscal, Kevin Alvir, Armin Pruessner, Derek Strausbaugh, and Reid Dossinger.
History
2002 to 2006: Starling, Spiders, Tiger and Sprites
Sprites was formed in 2002 by Jason Korzen following the breakup of Barcelona. The band released Starling, Spiders, Tiger and Sprites in 2003 on March Records. They have done some touring, including a United States tour with The Lucksmiths.
2006: Modern Gameplay
Sprites' second album, Modern Gameplay, was released in August 2006 through Darla Records.
Discography
Albums and EPs
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Sprite (lightning)
Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground.
Sprites appear as luminous reddish-orange flashes. They often occur in clusters within the altitude range 50–90 km (31–56 mi) above the Earth's surface. Sporadic visual reports of sprites go back at least to 1886, but they were first photographed on July 6, 1989 by scientists from the University of Minnesota and have subsequently been captured in video recordings many thousands of times.
Sprites are sometimes inaccurately called upper-atmospheric lightning. However, sprites are cold plasma phenomena that lack the hot channel temperatures of tropospheric lightning, so they are more akin to fluorescent tube discharges than to lightning discharges.
History
Allusions to transient optical phenomena above thunderclouds can be found in anecdotal reports from as early as 1730 (see Johann Georg Estor). Nobel laureate C. T. R. Wilson had suggested in 1925, on theoretical grounds, that electrical breakdown could occur in the upper atmosphere, and in 1956 witnessed what possibly could have been a sprite. They were first documented photographically on July 6, 1989 when scientists from the University of Minnesota, using a low-light video camera, accidentally captured the first image of what would subsequently become known as a sprite. Several years after their discovery they were named sprites (air spirits) after their elusive nature. Since their 1989 discovery, sprites have been imaged tens of thousands of times, from the ground, from aircraft and from space, and have become the subject of intensive investigations.
Podcasts:
Sprites
ALBUMS
- Modern Gameplay released: 2006
- Starling, Spiders, Tiger and Sprites released: 2003
Modern Gameplay
Released 2006- Bionic Hands
- George Romero
- I Started A Blog Nobody Read
- Overclockers Of The World Unite
- Me and Sysop
- Modern Gameplay
- Requirements for DJs
- Mystery Man
- I Love You, You Retard
- Unconditional Love Definition
- Shirley Beans
- Huygens vs. The Werewolf
- A Good Friend Sticks to You
- Dropping the Mir on Japan
- Most Dangerous Thing in the World (Invisible Robot)
- Things Are Looking Up in Lebanon
- Ambient Industrial Dronescape
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Separate Ways
by: Neil YoungI won't apologize
The light shone from in your eyes
It isn't gone,
It will soon come back again.
Though we go our separate ways
Lookin' for better days
Sharin' our little boy,
Who grew from joy back then.
And it's all because
of that love we knew
That makes the world go round.
Separate ways, separate ways.
Separate ways, separate ways.
Me for me, you for you
Happiness is never through
It's only a change of plan
And that is nothing new.
As we go our separate ways.
Lookin' for better days
Sharin' our little boy,
Who grew from joy back then.
And it's all because
of that love we knew
That makes the world go round.
And it's all because
of the love we knew
It makes the world go round.
Separate ways, separate ways.
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