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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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alternative video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm7--Q9-OH8
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A lighting tree!
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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
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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!
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That's crazy. I never realized how it sort of searches for a target and once it finds one...BOOM!
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