Hit by lightning? Blame supernovae

We don’t know how lightning is able to reach the ground, the air should not conduct electricity well enough. One theory is that cosmic rays create a highway of charged particles and the lightning can follow this highway down to the ground. That’s right, light years away from earth a massive star reaches a stage of uncontrollable fusion generating such immense amounts energy that the star explodes and this releases an uncountable number of charged particles throughout the galaxy. A tiny tiny tiny fraction of these particles fly to earth and hit our atmosphere colliding with countless number of air particles on the way down. These collisions knock electrons on and off the atoms creating a more electrically conductive atmosphere which allows lightning to follow down from the clouds and hit Roy Cleveland Sullivan a record 7 times in his life. What!?!