>>15778976Are you conflating ball lightning and foo fighters?
Sprites are just the planet's way of keeping as neutral a charge as possible.
I can't really speak to plasma intelligence, or sentience.
This one has always fascinated me though:
>St. Elmo's fire is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod-like object such as a mast, spire, chimney, or animal horn[1] in an atmospheric electric field. It has also been observed on the leading edges of airplanes, as in the case of British Airways Flight 009. The intensity of the effect, a blue or violet glow around the object, often accompanied by a hissing or buzzing sound, is proportional to the strength of the electric field and therefore noticeable primarily during thunderstorms or volcanic eruptions.I guess, nowadays they would be considered "leaders".
