Lightning in Slow Motion

Posted by Miss Cellania in Video Clips on August 8, 2008 at 6:17 am



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This bolt of lightning was shot in high speed video, then slowed way down for your entertainment. -via reddit




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6 comments to "Lightning in Slow Motion"

  1. Ty
    August 8th, 2008 at 8:07 am

    Wow! I was NOT prepared to be amazed! That’s some wicked footage.

  2. Jake D.
    August 8th, 2008 at 9:29 am

    That’s crazy. I never realized how it sort of searches for a target and once it finds one…BOOM!

  3. BOLL
    August 8th, 2008 at 9:40 am

    Incredisome! O_o As said, the searching it performs is something I’ve never seen before. It gives lightning a different character, a bit more evil as it actively locates a target by itself, stretching out, but also a bit mechanical as it uses a premade path once it has located where to go… I got to stop watching this now, I can feel it approaching my back!

  4. Bonnie
    August 8th, 2008 at 11:01 am

    What is freakier is that everything on the ground sends out its own seeking leader and it’s when a leader from the air meets a leader coming up from the ground that you get a giant electrical discharge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#Leader_formation

  5. JC
    August 9th, 2008 at 2:09 am

    A lighting tree!

  6. zondron
    August 21st, 2008 at 9:59 am

    alternative video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm7–Q9-OH8


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