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Um, Tom was talking about the, um, what triggers lightning and this is starting to come out. And, um, I was looking at the other report, I was looking at some other reports regarding this too. And, um, the interesting thing about this is it falls in line with some of the principles of how lightning forms in clouds to begin with. This one had a little bit of a different twist than what Tom was saying, particularly when you have, um, electrons. The electrons in the, um, in the thunder clouds are getting accelerated. The inflammatory nitrogen, oxygen, and all the X-rays. And a lot of this is propagated from cosmic rays that are hitting the, uh, the amateurs causing the acceleration and the buildup of energy. And it's all part of what you would call the photoelectric effect, which Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for. So the photoelectric effect occurs in the atmosphere. In this case, this is when roto-vistic high energy electrons, as I mentioned, are seeded by cosmic rays coming from outer space. And they gather in the thunderstorm particle, uh, electric field. And they give off these high energy photons called terrestrial gamma rays, flashes. And these are, uh, a little bit more powerful than the, uh, the normal X-rays you get through a doctor's office, like the, uh, hard X-rays or even the soft X-rays. And they all produce, um, uh, ranges within X-rays and even a radial wave to drop in. And the research, uh, this new research that was, uh, able to show how the electrons were accelerated by the, uh, powerful electric field and the thunderclouds. And how they caused X-rays as they were smashing into some of these air particles on the way. And then that propagates, that just propagates an avalanche of electrons. And those electrons are now, uh, producing high energy photons in the gamma ray range that's just dropping for seconds. So, as I said, the whole process falls under what's referred to as a photoelectric effect. Um, and as I said, Einstein won the Nobel Prize for it. And photoelectric effect, it's, um, it's emission of, of, um, electrons caused by photons striking, um, a certain kind of a metallic surface, but you can get them coming from other surfaces as well. So you have electromagnetic radiation is absorbed, and, um, and this is absorbed by, this week, uh, bullets of electromagnetic radiation. And in turn, that energy has to go somewhere, so, uh, it's given off by electrons, and then these electrons are released. And, uh, other charged particles can also be released as well. So that's basically, just wanted to add that onto what Tom was saying about the, uh, this new, uh, research and how, uh, electricity and then the, uh, lightnings propagated in the, uh, thundercloud. Uh, Tom, come on in. Thanks Ken, VA3WX. I, I reset the notes, so hopefully the delay is gone. And, uh, thanks to the, uh, VK2J8J for letting me know how terrible it was. I do appreciate that. Uh, okay, Omar, um, he had a question, um, and I, I didn't hear what it was, so hopefully he can come back in and give us a, uh, repeat the question. VA3 or VWX?