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This is cool I never really contemplated how frequently there are strikes across the globe.

Is there / Could there be a random number generator based on lighting strikes?

Pseudorandom but you’d have an issue with the fact that certain tall objects get struck all the time and there are better radio noise sources that are probably better at generating entropy.

Maybe the timing rather than the locality might be a better input.

In fact RANDOM.ORG uses "atmospheric noise, originating from lightning strikes in the planet's atmosphere" as (one of?) seed for generating data

Source: https://api.random.org/features

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