Lightning in Super Slow Motion

[@magicmanscott40k]

Seeing it "search" like that while in the cloud is creepy. I always assumed lighting is a single bolt. Seeing it wiggile like that freaks me out a bit

[@magicmanscott40k]

@@ker0356 that would be cool

[@tatotaytoman5934]

@@ker0356 its trying to strike you but its blind

[@puppy6646]

@@ker0356 Quantum physics.

[@morpher44]

there is an easy experiment we can perform to see if lightning is intelligent. Here, you hold this kite string, and I'll take notes under this pointy metalic looking tree.

[@dorjanhajdari2670]

I always assumed it took the path of least resistance. But didn't really think about how it would find that path.

[@mikerathbun6442]

You really can't enjoy watching a storm without the lightning, at sunset during a summer storm watching the lightning light up the inside of the clouds, better than any fireworks show

[@1000CalorieSnackPack]

One of the main reasons I love Colorado. The storms out here are incredible, and every summer, the lightning that you described is absolutely worth grabbing a chair, a beer, and watching the show. Nothing puts into perspective the power of mother nature like a high-altitude lightning storm.

[@hamusapphire2201]

Yeah lighting is much more beautiful than the freaking fireworks..idk why but the firework making my ear hurt more than when lighting strike ..

[@LymezoidBeats]

Also, if you live in a High-Lightning strike zone, then watch as your neighbors' tree gets struck.

[@hamusapphire2201]

@@LymezoidBeats lol

[@LymezoidBeats]

@@hamusapphire2201 Like the neighborhood behind my house has been struck MULTIPLE times in the SAME storm, and in different storms.

[@mishie618]

The feelers that come out of the ground, looking to connect with the bolt, are to me the most amazing thing. Because I doubt many of us not in this field of work, were aware that this is how lightning makes contact with objects on the ground or in the sky. It was awesome to see several of them still sticking out of the ground, even after the lightning from the cloud had already made a connection. They looked Almost like electrical garden eels!! Amazing!!

[@himanshusingh5214]

13 years

[@DrMerle-gw4wj]

A lightening strike at a distance is most beautiful when seen from the air. As I returned from a cross country flight done as part of private pilot training and my home rural airfield and its pattern were in sight I saw a strike from a cloud to the ground in the distance. It was clear enough that I could see the entire bolt and it was one of the most impressive phenomena I have had the pleasure of seeing while doing light plane flying.

[@tahususu98]

incredible

[@dimensiongate.7596]

Amazing 😮

[@niyatidubey9841]

It sounds like you're writing an essay

[@Rodiariega]

Outta ya damn mind 😂

[@cloppin]

Wowzerz

[@midnyte_ryder]

That explains why you get the buzzing feeling when there’s about to be a strike near you. If you are outside in a storm and feel that “static” feeling there’s about to be a hit near you.

[@treviita4824]

how does it explain?

[@BrianatorFTW]

you ever rub a balloon through your hair, or at least seen someone with long hair have it done to them? if it happened to you did it have a peculiar feeling around your head and the balloon and/or if you did it to someone else noticed the hair reach for the balloon? This is a static difference in charge, and that feeling is it being attracted to each other and reaching out, as you may imagine that is near literally nothing compared to lightning and the great imbalance of charge involved Basically the same feeling of being attracted to the air around you and the tingling from electric charges reaching out (remember, at least a good portion of nerve commutation to brain is electrical in nature) happens near where lightning will strike as the negative charge of the clouds starts reaching for the grounds positive charge, and that positive charge may "decide" to choose you as part of the path

[@marbanak]

Or maybe a HIT is about to happen ON you. Really.

[@FRGBlackBurn]

I can confirm the "static feeling", I almost got hit by lightning once, thankfully it hit a power pole instead.

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

Exactly. I had one hit a tree next to me. Im talking split seconds before it happened all my hair on my arms stood up and skin went all goose bumpy then crack and the swearing started shortly after hahaha

[@rvstynumber77]

I love how discovery channels have the sheer power to just turn almost anything into a horror film This is just.....beautifully terrifying ♡

[@Maraien]

How's your relationship with your father

[@drbright10]

@@Maraien they don’t got one lmao

[@Maraien]

​@@drbright10 Hello? This is the based department. We just wanted to tell you that we're impressed with your work.

[@rvstynumber77]

@@Maraien dear god 😭💀

[@amreliah7118]

😭😭😭

[@necromancerxel7019]

Imagine if the step leader was that slow in real life while the actual discharge was still at a blinding flash of speed. It would be beautiful

[@emma-]

Imagine the sense of dread as one appears directly above you.

[@maxpayne69.]

@@emma- holy shit! That’s a damn unnerving idea ! 🙇🏻‍♂️😅

[@phoebusapollo8365]

@@emma- *run.*

[@tcistrash9911]

@@phoebusapollo8365 casually running at 200mph

[@mexitalican99]

It'd be even more terrifying if the step leader started following you to your house.

[@AlexanderosD]

"The sky reaches for the earth. And the earth responds 'here I am'"

[@woodonfire7406]

Sounds something what a God would say

[@Benn61]

@@woodonfire7406 Job 38:35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?

[@MrGoatflakes]

"and ayeeeeeye will always love yoooouuuui!"

[@yaboi7034]

Oh wow! I didn’t know that could happen! I never heard it. I’m deaf and blind! Thanks for your contribution!

[@fruitbouquet5479]

More like “PEEK-A-BOO”

[@moinshaikh1963]

It's 11 years later and I still find these recordings fascinating..!

[@bobbylittle6996]

And now it's 14 years later. How time flies.

[@johnvanzoest4532]

The way the lightning "investigates" the path to the ground seems almost sentient.

[@tahunuva4254]

It's like an a* pathfinding algorithm

[@hrgwea]

It's the same way water "investigates" a path through land, forming a river.

[@nothingsurprisesmeanymore]

It's the same way I find my phone in the dark

[@tahunuva4254]

@@hrgwea ehh, its a bit different. Rivers all flow into one main stream, while lightning "veins" out from a central source. You'll very rarely see rivers splitting like that

[@hrgwea]

@Tahu Nuva, the river is the result after the water already found the path of least resistance. You rarely see a lighting splitting in two, because that requires that two paths are found. So, the two processes are identical, the only difference is the speed at which they occur.

[@gregorytoddsmith9744]

I had a positive streamer come up through me once. The brilliant blue flowed out of my hand and into a truck I was next to. Every muscle in that arm contracted instantly and painfully. The main bolt arced over head and hit the ground. I told the ER physician how lucky I felt to have survived and for a split second was PLASMA MAN!

[@humanbeing1429]

That must have been an amazing experience to see the charge blasting out of your arm. Lucky you escaped the other one coming from above.

[@electronresonator8882]

did you gain super power from that? did your brain becomes a super computer?

[@walenfesata]

The film was true, someone can hold a flow of electricity.

[@walenfesata]

Did you get refreshed after that strike?

[@knightrider697]

This has to be brain destroying. How could you mentally survive to such noise/light? Do you feel ok?

[@F.B.I.gov.]

Funfact: *If the lighting is going to strike you then you will get goosebumps and every hair on your will stand before it hits you.* This happened to me once while I was in a car.Thankfully it hit a few meters away from me

[@comptech5240]

It's due to to the positive streamers discharging or rather attracting the negatively charged lightning towards itself. So, as the video showed positive streamers rising from the ground, if you are around it, your hair tends to have that static electricity which attracts itself towards the lightning.

[@mistercointreau5247]

It was the loudest thing you've ever heard right? BANG! (I have been close to a lightening strike myself).

[@nesletchimaew9209]

I once heared the loudest bang ever then everything went white. I was temporarily blinded. Since sound travels slowly i would have noticed a delay even if it was just 100 yards away. How I didn't get struck, i have no idea. Was it a streamer that blinded me? Who knows. I didn't get goosebumps because i was riding my bicycle downhill at 55mph with just a shirt on

[@themadgamer1122]

The "step leader" looks like an algorithm to find the ground

[@everready19373]

Isn't is a fractal?

[@billdberger7407]

Algorithms are the simulacra not the other way around

[@MadScientist267]

The dynamics of a lightning strike could never be explained that elegantly 🤣

[@billdberger7407]

@@MadScientist267 I don't think there is anything elegant about algorithms, just the opposite. Nature is elegant, the brain is elegant whereas an algorithm to recognize faces is brute force digital computation.

[@MadScientist267]

@@billdberger7407 Hate to say it but there's nothing elegant about a lightning strike. That's more pissed off electrons trying to get from one place to another, a really good distance apart at that, *NOW* It may be efficient, beautiful, mesmerising, potent, spontaneous, bright, loud, violent... Probably a few others that aren't immediately coming to mind... But elegant isn't on my list. It is however, far as I'm concerned, nature's most impressive "single" release of energy on this planet, I can absolutely give it that.

[@Knuckx117]

I remember watching this series as a kid and being fascinated by all the stuff our planet is capable of. Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Lightning, Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Floods... those are the VHS tapes I had...

[@gh00stie62]

I'm still fascinated. Netflix has a bunch of great documentaries about this kind of stuff available now

[@guythatlikesbananas6293]

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[@weneedmoreconsideratepeopl4006]

You're so lucky 😭 I wanna see it but they don't even teach these in school. Nature is so amazing...

[@artsmith103]

All of that but the climate should never change :-(

[@SharonDraws]

100th like

[@zinzolin14]

It's amazing, how branched out lightning really is, though we usually only notice the single bolt.

[@04dram04]

Incredible. Looks just like blood viens, nervous system, plants roots, ect. As above, SO below.

[@darthwisetheplagueis5869]

Huh.

[@guysmiley515]

Damn.I never thought of it like that.Youre Right 👍

[@jupiterr9892]

@04dram04 💯💯💯 true! I think it's maybe because everything is made by the same guy.. there seems to be patterns in everything..even space just my opinion not forcing this on anyone ✌️😘

[@guysmiley515]

@@jupiterr9892 it makes sense really

[@g.i.4144]

Yep that’s exactly what I was likening it to... it’s got to be all the same intelligence behind this extraordinary reality

[@michaelbrinks8089]

I never knew or heard of the positive streamers lightning makes from the ground.

[@barneymm2204]

St. Elmo's Fire.

[@kimm6589]

It's just ions and moving electrons. Simple chemistry.

[@elizabethdiane3679]

Yes they have low clouds with purple flashes and then it rains like hell lol

[@SS-gt8sy]

Imagine if it was slow in real life if you are gonna get hit by lightning you will see a +ive stream on you head lol And that's when you know you are fkd

[@Rahulchoudhary-xb4wm]

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[@stephaniecarrow4898]

Truly fascinating. I remember a summer storm of lightning flashes that lit up the night sky in neon turquoise for hours. I kept watching for hours, mesmerized and amazed. One of the best shows I've ever seen.

[@Xaeram]

The Fact that this was 11 Years ago Really shows how Advanced We’ve Become Since. Now things Like Recording Slo-Mo Lightning can be Done on a Phone!

[@thend4427]

If this was redone today it could be made even slower

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

Well mate, youl never know till you drop dead and gamble with your eternal soul now will you. Dh

[@gabrielmartinez4288]

@General Cham it’s been around thousands of years why would 11 years make it to away?

[@fault.]

The fact that the original comment was made 34 years ago that I’m replying to really shows how advanced we’ve become since. Now things like this recording Slo-Mo Lightning can be done not on a phone but on a banana!

[@savary5050]

@@fault. monke

[@notyou1877]

Now, the super rare ground to cloud strikes are captured on video. I find those even more fascinating. Planetary scale voltage adjustment taking place.

[@notyou1877]

@@1000-THR no. Lightning is just the visual element of current flow. Current flows from higher potential to the lower potential. Let's just assume that electrons carry the charge. The positive hole theory adopted by the US military is only confusing the issue here for time being. The current flows through space all the way from the Sun following the lines of flux. Birkland current is it's name. The entire universe is run like this. The best way to spot the upward current path is by observing the branching of the lightning leaders. The main charge comes from one source and dissipate over distance.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@1000-THR Why do people think lightning comes from the ground? I'll never understand it and this is not the first time I have heard it.

[@fallen5983]

@@1000-THR bruh did you even watch the video? it literally shows lightning going from the cloud to the ground

[@joshua.wilbur]

@@JonatasAdoM theres a photo of it coming from the ground.. its like the strike is magnetically pulling it from the earth. and the tallest/easiest one pulled from the earth meets the one from the sky for the exchange

[@gorgit]

​@@JonatasAdoM the lightning from the sky searches the path of least resistance. Once it comes close to the ground, positive charges are pulled by the extreme potential towards the lightning branches, creating a small lightning like branch coming from the gorund. The first two that connect, create a circuit and the whole charge discharges through that line in almost an instant.

[@EmilyTienne]

Lighting, though pretty common, always amazes me. The step leaders phenomenon is just astonishing. Seeing charges grow out of the tops of trees and telephone poles, as if saying, “here, over here! Choose me!”

[@alouisschafer7212]

Lightning is the most amazing and scary thing there is. There is no other discharge with such power and voltage levels.

[@HeinRichKocHPretoria]

South Africa's Escom should find a way to capture lightning; electricity for everybody for ever.

[@450clancy6]

There is and it is your mum's

[@ThorOdinson1269]

@@450clancy6 Ew, post taco bell discharge

[@kashierr]

@@HeinRichKocHPretoria there is it’s called “energy” this is available to anyone it’s called frequency

[@granite676]

Unfettered 'energy' ie lightning can rise to millions of volts because it's not restricted by anything just like a dead short in a 400kv substation to earth.

[@John_Honai]

2:33 You didn't wipe the third camera. Don't you love it?

[@chilling_at_pontiff]

Q

[@happycamper7859]

harry camper. tent camper? rv? state parks? wilderness? bigfoot stories LOL?

[@Kokobonkers]

No need to wipe 3rd camera, it’s so far back dust dirt and grime doesn’t really hit it.

[@meghanachauhan9380]

Poor Lil third camera

[@ByHisStripess]

Legend has it, he's still looking for the mop to wipe the third camera down.

[@CarlosGriffin-k5u]

I love it when the dialectric layer breaks down and gives us a light show

[@johnprudent3216]

I remember seeing this on cable. It made me love lightning even terrifying as it can be.

[@Fourthslip]

And I watched it at .25x speed to get extra super slow motion🙃

[@electromagneticscience1555]

Same XD

[@physicsguylikeskinematics777]

The Indian brain lol I don't know why even I got same idea to experience the doctor strange movie feeling you can see he is talking to that soul

[@kesaya3806]

@@mikee5208 ikr, these people are so annoying

[@BlazeYT_]

r/madlad

[@clowshonen1229]

It doesn't make it slower you only get to see the frames slower but the technical speed doesn't change.

[@MicahScottPnD]

The thought of a person trying to capture lightning in high speed... Have to thank you for that! And the knowledge gained from the footage... invaluable

[@eaterofthings]

Seeing the stepped leader climb down out of the cloud was almost therapeutic to watch. Such a beautiful scene! The music to accompany it was fantastic too! Even the sound of the thunder in slow motion was surprisingly nice to listen to.

[@TheAcidicMolotov]

I wish I could view life like a book like this!

[@AngryKittens]

It's like the sky gropes down and says "ground, still there?". And ground says "yep!" And they hold hands. Awww.

[@CrazyFunnyCats]

What a cute frkn angry kitteh photo👍🐾

[@AngryKittens]

SHUT UP! GO AWAY!

[@mariuskc7037]

Hahahaa this comment is genius!

[@iamgodofhumancollective5968]

Lol brilliant.

[@paneesh]

Cutest explanation of lightening xD

[@Reign_Of_Is_REAL]

That was just BEAUTIFUL!! Better than fireworks imo

[@aserodriguez1425]

God it's so beautiful. I can totally see how our ancestors thought it was the Gods I mean how else can you explain such beauty and endless power

[@Xoloz]

Clouds things going so fast that they can make electricity and then turning it into lightning i think it’s called science

[@rajeevm1989]

This video literally explains it

[@Ken-ru6or]

@@Xolozthe scientific method didn't exist until the 1500s. also that is the most elementary, stupidest explanation of lightning I've ever heard. you should delete your comment it's pretty embarrassing tbh

[@Xoloz]

@@Ken-ru6or yo ken it’s supposed to sound stupid don’t you think everybody knows how lightning is conducted my guy it’s called sarcasm

[@user400]

@@rajeevm1989 rhetoric question

[@b3j8]

What I've seen working outdoors is lightning DOES NOT always strike the tallest object. It picks the best path, and many times multiple paths, to ground! Beautiful but lethal and scary at the same time!

[@AuroraBoarder1]

"Lighting DOES NOT always strike the tallest object." I know that for a fact! Riverside CA rarely gets thunderstorms, and the ones they get are real miniscule. Once, when it was just overcast, a guy was walking along a low point when a bolt of lightning struck the ground, missing him by 10 feet! This, in spite of a bunch of palm trees in the area, plus a 200 foot hill! The poor guy went into shock!

[@Spengler14]

Wow from this to playing the Batman. Very impressive!

[@guyvanarsdall7686]

Happy New Year!!! Almost 11 years old and the is vid still amazes and educates!

[@vindoodles7346]

And that, friends, is why you don't stand under a tree in lightning.

[@Chiz1992]

Maybe I'm missing something here but to my knowledge, if you're the best choice for the lightning e.g. a golfer in a barren golf course, it will go for you. So why would standing under a tree be bad if it then goes for the tree and discharges into the ground?

[@nlo114]

@@Chiz1992 The lightning charge travels down the tree and boils the sap. The instant steam causes the tree-trunk to explode, sending large chunks of wood in all directions. Once the ionised path is established but the tree is removed, the 'shelterer' becomes the next conductive object that takes the charge. Alternatively, the tree sap boils away, the wood resistance rises, then the charge jumps out of the side of the tree and heads for the nearest grounded object - the sheltering golfer. In through the head, out through the feet, bang you're dead!

[@GrrMeister]

*In case it gets **_Struck_** & the Branches fall on you ?*

[@chicken_nugget5438]

WOAH HOLY CRAP DUDE OMG I DIDNT KNWOW WJ OFDNdniaw

[@GrrMeister]

@phuc ewe *Not Hurt - Killed !*

[@meow3343]

Now i understand why being in a high place has the highest chance of getting hit by lightning

[@oisinvg]

This is bloody amazing, the slow motion video of the step leader finding a charged area, and watching the pulses was amazing

[@MrChildpoet]

I have loved lightning since I was a child-----some of my most happy moments were a night walking in the rain looking at the lightning-----the thunder used to frighten me---now at 80- years----I enjoy the lightning as well

[@jasminewinterroseglein9293]

It is fascinating but frightening too.

[@paneesh]

That is so cool! I loved it and was fascinated by it since I was a kid, now I'm 20 lol

[@jendelreavis358]

Kenneth Griffith why the -strikethrough-

[@Muzikrazy213]

Paneesh, Who? :3 same. cept im 21. and never really got the chance to see much lightning growing up in the LA area

[@paneesh]

Muzikrazy213 Oh!

[@pokemonitishere202]

0:06 now I know from where dragon Ball Z got those mega kick sounds.

[@TNT-ml1ll]

That dude had slow-mo camera 9 years back.. *The Slow mo guys* left the chat

[@kennethstory1722]

All l knows is lightning is wild and crazy it will kill you and leave you dry...

[@glassmanorangjitra]

I had lightning struck 50 feet or a bit more away from me... the sound alone scared the beejeepers out of little 10 year old me!.... LOL

[@guythatlikesbananas6293]

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[@DJAYPAZ]

High speed cameras have been around for decades. Before videos system could perform fast enough, researchers used high speed film cameras to record events for later analysis in slow motion.

[@charlesmckinley29]

He had a government research budget to pay for them too.

[@regmik]

The best lightning show I ever saw was on a plane flying high above the clouds over the Pacific in the inky black night looking down on a reticulate network of charged fractals crisscrossing across my entire field of view.

[@zakaria4202]

All fun and games until that bad boy slithers to your plane!

[@Odysseus_Petrichor]

@@zakaria4202 don't worry tho, since airplanes are designed to handle lighting strikes, lightings won't have any effect on the plane, plus the plane is flying above the clouds which the lightings most likely can't strike, that's why pilots tend to go up above the clouds rather than lowering down the plane when there's a storm

[@iwatchwithnoads7480]

@@Odysseus_Petrichor you're right about not being in danger above the clouds. But don't think lightning can't do damage planes because "it's designed to handle". That shows lack of understanding on the linearizations and approximations we do, and underestimating nature

[@spaceforce0]

I hope the algorithm never stops recommending this to me

[@oBseSsIoNPC]

talking about frequency, Tesla had that suspicion 100 years ago. Glad we figured it out now.

[@dragonlover7196]

I KNOW. Gosh, the things he would discover if he could work with the current technology and resources of the 21st century. His research far exceeded that of his time, I would have loved to have a conversation with him. It would be quite fascinating.

[@krisztianszirtes5414]

***** If you watch the series Warehouse 13, you can understand why it is about Tesla a lot of times, he was a genius :)

[@kitsuneyoukai5560]

Krisztián Szirtes I tried wathing that series, but I imetiatly stopped watching when I saw a katana that makes his wearer invisible by guiding the photons around him through it´s sharp blade. When I saw that i thought: "Nope, i am outta here"

[@surfinmuso37]

just shows that science is not the search of truth as they would have us believe.

[@dorakemba2899]

@@krisztianszirtes5414 He was one of a kind. After he died the american government took over his entire work and went trough all his stuff. Just to make sure that everything he was working on could not be a _threat_ when in hands if _enemies._ A guy who went through his stuff; Trumps relative. Now, _if_ they found something - would the government really tell that...? You know, Teslas mind must have been beyond genius, when a government feard that some of his ideas could end up in other hands and built a threat. Tesla was talking about wirless energy in times when such things as smarthphones and wifi did not exist. His imagination from back then is today reality. Tesla was mentally already in 2019; if not even further.

[@unfortunaterabbit5900]

Hood: "Chief, mind telling me why you're on TV?" Chief: "Sir, watching lightning in slow motion."

[@ultralightcam6963]

Holy hell it does sound like him🤣

[@grayson6]

I love looking at comments on scientific videos.

[@bassfishingwiththeantichri2921]

When you film at night with a GoPro and lightning strikes, the still photo just looks like you took a photo during the day.

[@jponz85]

Funny I remember experts were saying that lightning started from the ground upwards and this video just proved that it indeed does not do that. What a great video, I actually learned a lot, much more than school or anywhere else lol.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

I remember hearing about that. Also reminded of a movie..

[@kashierr]

I think “they” meant there is some form of electrical energy that can emerge from the GROUND

[@kashierr]

Just not exactly the same as thunder

[@puppiekit]

I mean it *can*, but it isn't nearly as common as cloud-to-ground lightning

[@mvp_kryptonite]

Awesome! BBC had a clip from the back end of 2024 with the storm chasers and a mega slow mo camera. Crazy how many types of lightning there is too

[@JarodBillingslea]

This lightning proves how much farther cameras need to be improved at capturing more frames per second. Good find.

[@d74g0n]

2:44 begins the money shots.

[@michaelking4578]

Thank you friend. I will subscribe to you for that excellent tip. Subscribed.

[@VeryMurica]

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[@2470427]

Good shit boss lol

[@mizzury54]

Yeah let's skip the interesting part because we don't have 2:43 to spare to learn something. Congratulations on your 97 likes as of now.

[@eustaceomalley6071]

needs more upvotes

[@TreasuredHarte]

Super slow and the lightning is still quick

[@kishascape]

Funny thing is they wasted all that time and money with expensive slowmo cams when just setting a dim exposure and leaving the shutter open on the DSLR does the exact same thing. It's easy to interpret from a still image too based on structure and brightnesses so this experiment yields no additional useful info.

[@salsamancer]

@@kishascape listen man, the dude is spending his evenings taking pictures of lightning, give him a break. Let him have this 😂

[@memyself2630]

@@salsamancer lol

[@mikethespike056]

@@kishascape no encuentro fallas en tu lógica lmao it looks better on video though 🧐

[@farruhjont8168]

KZbin recommendations brought me here. After 9 years.

[@hackerino9707]

I don't fuckin care bitch

[@HumanBeing...]

hi.

[@Reywalker786]

Same!

[@fakebritishpride2091]

We should use the femto camera developed by ravi shankar it can captyre lightining's movement at the speed of light that is trillion frames per second🤔🤔

[@BrianAndersonTT]

Humans breathe air.

[@sylviagodsmith6957]

It intrigues me how something that sounds so petrifying and is so destructive in nature can appear to be so ethereal. A very beautiful phenomenon.

[@meganm9488]

Whenever I hear this particular narrator's voice, I know I am about to learn something interesting.

[@fantasyhaven3900]

Right? Pitty that I can't remember his name 😥.

[@blizzbee]

His voice is one of my best sleeping pills.

[@justindtackett]

It’s just amazing that kind of power and charge exists within our atmosphere and all around us. The sky and clouds meet to form this larger than life electrical connection.

[@SingleAction6]

Everyone gangsta until a skyscraper-tall-big-ass muscular man pops up after the lightning strikes the ground

[@humanbeing1429]

Survivors of lightning strikes are walking miracles. After seeing this, I'm convinced that it is nothing short of a miracle.

[@Brett_S_420]

He wasn't hit by lightning, but look up this dude Frane Selak. Luckiest and unlickiest guy ever! Crazy stuff!

[@Outboxer000]

KZbin recommend after 11 years 😂

[@gplustree]

it's kind of crazy just *how far* digital tech (including cameras) has come in just the last 20 years or so

[@MrHeems]

I saw this in real life a while back. I was standing on my front porch watching a storm and lightning happened to strike my neighbors fence right in the center of my field of vision. I saw a thin branch of lightning from the ground to the end of my field of vision, then the next instant it was as thick as a tree trunk and i almost jumped through my screen door.

[@strikeout1991]

I bet you got tone deaf for the next few hours, after that.

[@MrHeems]

strikeout1991 Actually it didn't really hurt my ears, but I could see the photo negative of the bolt every time I closed my eyes for a long time.

[@strikeout1991]

MrHeems Oh damn, that must've been fucked up.

[@aSStronaut111]

That must have been crazy dude i would have run into my house screaming lol

[@dnssigns]

I saw it as well. Laying in a backpacking tent during an intense Florida thunderstorm. I had pulled my pack into the tent and it was just getting dark. I could feel the static building up and saw tiny purple blue sparks rising up off the metal rings on my pack for a couple of seconds before the main bolt hit a pine tree about 50 feet away. One of those talk to god moments where your cursing yourself for being out there in that situation and happy to live through it.

[@Whisperedmax]

2:47 OHH it's like a race...who ever gets to the ground first.....WINS

[@ZeroOskul]

It's the wave function and the collapse of the wave function, submicroscopic QM concepts occurring at macro scale.

[@razony]

Unless your standing at the spot it connects too. "Tag, your out! "

[@gerryrockwell8758]

The path of least resistance applied here as well ?

[@ZeroOskul]

Water slows light by 75%, so we can assume that the gamma photons are trying to follow the path with least water. Of course the lightning goes faster than the water can fall so it only has to worry about where water is in its path as no water is going to fall into the lightning as it traces its way down and flashes.

[@razony]

@@ZeroOskul No wonder why the Desert Southwest lightning displays are so Incredible!

[@feeberizer]

My father, the physicist, and I politely argued as to which direction lightning travelled from sky-to-ground or ground-to-sky. It was years later when we found we were both correct.

[@jkitto2008]

Absolutely fascinating, like to see what they can do with the cameras now. ✌🏽✨

[@chaoticfloralarrangement8741]

Anyone else in awe of this work of nature? It literally looks like tree roots. Nature is in tune with itself. That’s how I wanna be.

[@unlimited8410]

@@alicebowie9474 What are these but clear signs of God? Yet there are people who will look the other way

[@CATMOTH-ml5fy]

Wowee, this is beautiful, it's so interesting to see lightning being born! There's a single tendril reaching out for the lightning wriggling through the sky, looking for that tendril.. and when they finally meet it's beautiful!! :D

[@theawesomegamr]

2:44 that is just about the coolest thing ever ._.

[@definitelymdt]

Seeing lightning like that makes me think that this is just God playing Snake looking for apples.

[@ChrisHurricane]

Hahahahaha

[@libansheikh7067]

And the thunder exalts [Allah] with praise of Him - and the angels [as well] from fear of Him - and He sends thunderbolts and strikes therewith whom He wills while they dispute about Allah ; and He is severe in assault.

[@afiquacks1246]

Your statement sounds atheist

[@wdestroyer4981]

@@afiquacks1246 ok and?

[@gwyneth8306]

@@afiquacks1246 they're just making a harmless joke. your comment does not give your religion a good name, being so judgemental like that.

[@EA-pc3ek]

Bro this was 11 years ago I want them to do it again with modern technology

[@SpookyKabuki2.0]

Beautiful phenomenon captured by the eye of the beholder...

[@David-Field.Stuff01]

Very interesting. I particularly like the picture of the fence post emitting a positive charge as the lightning comes down. Was the post metal or was there something metsl underground?

[@Jazna1]

I could have watched an hour of this. Amazing, thanks!

[@dragulia_venaro]

Nikon be like : “Yeah, that's our cam”

[@universalpatriot4481]

Use me as the “If only this were in a higher resolution” button

[@Iamgroot9170]

Absolutely amazing photography and scientific exploration.

[@Theheroicbladesman]

Never question KZbin recommendations, they know what's best for you

[@rranger1014]

I COMMAND THE LIGHTNING'S HAND

[@muzidladla5128]

the good stuff starts from 2:45

[@explorer927]

Thanks!

[@fyodordostoevsky2861]

Grew up in Yuma, Arizona. The lighting storms were so captivating to me as a child.

[@jayaramvideos]

This is really very interesting. It is very useful for understanding the phenomenon of lightning.

[@Saginaw72]

Seeing video and stills of lightning always leaves me astonished and with a question; why does lightning look so much like plant roots as it arcs across the sky? The structure of it in some ways also resemble veins or arteries in bodies. Any thoughts or theory about this feature of lightning? Anyway, great video and thanks for educating us.

[@mraa9938]

its basically like roots trying to find a water source, in this case, lightning is trying to find a ground

[@marks9444]

Thank goodness these advancements in technology make it possible to see this breathtaking 480p

[@Dwegan2]

Not gonna lie, that “rare photograph” looks a lot like an anime battle

[@paulnathanielsmith]

Those positive streamers are interesting

[@thailander5572]

not electron? negative?

[@paulnathanielsmith]

@@thailander5572 watch the video to understand positive and negative charges.

[@robertfoertsch]

I Was Struck By Lightning. Thanks.

[@rundakindistortion9615]

after he said "pulses" i was like, "wait, this kinda sounds like aliens are coming down and sending very loud volts of energy to earth. to finish simulating"

[@venkataramireddyvaka3986]

Totaly man

[@SarahRWilson]

Imagine being able to harness that energy!

[@walenfesata]

that would be satisfy moment..

[@MikinessAnalog]

Even if we had the technology (not quite yet) it would be a cost prohibitive infrastructure & danger to air travel for all of the towers required, we still get more energy from the sun in an hour of daylight than we could use in a year. Lightning seems powerful (and it is, being hotter than the surface of the sun) but it just doesn't last long enough. Think a 60 watt light bulb plus 1 refrigerator powered just over a week from a typical single bolt.

[@chronique86]

1.21 gigawatts?!?!?!?!

[@cleitonfelipe2092]

Took the guy 2 years to film one lightning, how much time you think you will need to wait just to power your house for a day? And where will you store that burst of electricity without blowing everything up?

[@cleitonfelipe2092]

@Drip4Sale Earth has 510 million quilometers squared of surface area, even if it was 8 million lightnings an hour, it's still not enough to become a viable option for energy

[@DarkStarPlays]

Woh! thank you KZbin algorithm for recommending me this legendary video.

[@T1Earn]

this video got really good at the end

[@SilverWatcher.]

Thank you so friggen much I dont often smile, but I was smiling ear to ear watching. 🤗✌🏻✌🏻🇺🇸

[@fakebritishpride2091]

Ok

[@hrsh042]

'Murika

[@zeableunam]

I love this Early 2000s looking quality 👍 Reminds me of 90s Disney Channel programs!

[@robbiekamble2634]

Grateful to all the scientists who are doing research on this lightning phenomenon to unravel the mysteries surrounding it.

[@LaGuerre19]

"anatomy of lightning" sounds like a prog-metal band with AT LEAST one Chapman stick player

[@goldeneggthatneverhatched4252]

Hah! 😁

[@johnleos1687]

These are great shots! I like watching lightning storms😃 but your footage is enlightening 😮 pun intended ⚡⛈️🌩️

[@atiseru]

Wow lightning is pretty weird if you think about it, fucking millions of volts seemingly coming out of nowhere

[@moises1moy]

It does come from somewhere. Unless you haven't passed the 6th grade then you should know.

[@atiseru]

moises1moy I obviously said "SEEMINGLY coming out of nowhere". Don't pull conclusions out of thin air my friend, it's not really nice

[@Raidenzzz]

atiseru Shot fired

[@bono95zg]

atiseru conclusions seemingly pulled out of nowhere xD

[@machinescapes]

Bono Music You need a medal

[@BlackBeatxD]

2:46 is... amazing.

[@nathanhale7444]

That's amazing! Looks alot like how slime molds grow. Both branch out looking for what they need, either food or a grounding point respectively, then take the path of least resistance once it's found.

[@jasmijnariel]

1:47 is that lightning dancing!?

[@kevinsayce6282]

Questions: >WHY does the Step leader travel TOWARDS the ground??? >Does gravity play a part in bending electrical charged atoms? >Why can't the worlds intellect combine to produce an effective way to harnish this momentary power source to direct it deliberately away from doing damage to store for the future of mankind?

[@johnjohns9175]

1 idk 2 no it just needs Power 3. Ughhh

[@Duuuuuuuke]

Because not everyone thinks like scientists. People are selfish and everything runs on business and politics. You would probably be seen as a communist by the less intelligent people, who also happen to run the world.

[@nichegoseberazdvatri]

suppose there is something to drive away the first charge, but what will happen if that charge goes back up to the source (clouds), and hits the cloud, then comes back stronger, we could possible face a more dangerous charge, no?

[@VanillaSnake21]

I'm not exactly sure this is correct but I think the step leader doesn't just randomly "look" for ground, the path that it travels is already there, just invisibly so in ionic concentrations. So probably before it even leaves the cloud it already "feels" the point on the ground that it will hit because a channel already exists. On the way down it draws out the branches that don't lead anywhere. Second question, gravity _could_ play a role in bending charged particles but a very negligible one, gravity is actually incredibly weak when compared to electro-magnetic force. And for the last one, there are ways to divert the lightning and they are used when needed, such as around weather stations, antennas etc where a lighthing strike would do damage. But I don't think we need to capture it as electricity is not in shortage, while a lighthing strike is extremely powerful our modern electrical stations can probably produce the same current in under a second.

[@kitsuneyoukai5560]

nichegoseberazdvatri The "step-leader" can´t travel back into the cloud. Because the Cloud (if it is about to shoot lightning) has an static elelectric field and the step leader consists out of pure electrons. So both the cloud and the step leader have negative charges which pushes them away from each other (which is why a "step-leader" comes out in the first place), exactly like when you try to put two magnets with both negative poles together. And the only reason why the step leader and the lightning bolt don´t directly shoot to the ground is because if an electron flys through the Air it heats up the Air to at least 3.000 C [even more depending on it´s power] When this happens the heated air works as a "bridge" to the ground. And as we all know hot air surges up, thus it takes the "bridge" upward, too. I hope my comment could help and I didn´t sounded too much like a smartass :P

[@GooeyGoopus]

Damn.. 11 years ago... still getting recommended. I mean I'm not complaining this is cool

[@whyitr1ot]

Slow motion: 1:13 You're welcome.

[@XxShadowGTxX]

***** 2:41 even more welcome!

[@trailblazer2001]

The same electricity is used in my device now to watch this video 9 years later.