The hope is the laser could draw lightning away from places we don't want it to hit. ... (196 feet) before reaching the tower," Wolf said, per CNN.

If two artists create an image of a wolf, for instance, many elements might reasonably look similar, Heymann said. But to Darius Alas, Marvel Studios clearly crossed the line.

Lightning strikes about 40 million times in the U.S. every year. This natural phenomenon is terrifyingly random, and we rely mainly on lightning rods—a nearly 300-year-old technology—to deal ...

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