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- Jiert, on 08/07/2008, -2/+420Absolutely amazing, I love how you can watch it search for a ground.
- kaskinen, on 08/07/2008, -1/+306Holy Crap. Can someone tell this guy to do more???
- primrib, on 08/08/2008, -3/+241That's an amazing shot, and it's gotta be one hell of a camera. Displaying in 24 seconds what the human eye normally sees in a fraction of a second. It's probably shooting at over 5,000 fps. Maybe even over 9,000. Seriously.
- drethedog, on 08/07/2008, -28/+216That's God playing with his Tesla-Coil......
- DeskFlyer, on 08/08/2008, -1/+182Now that was ***** cool. I never realized there were so many leaders searching for a ground streamer to connect with.
- KMAC2580, on 08/07/2008, -1/+172This is amazing! I wish it would say how much "real time" had elapsed in the video.
- atorch, on 08/08/2008, -2/+131I love some of the youtube comments: "Yeah, it was kind of cool. But I analyzed it closely, and it's obviously a fake. Can't fool me!"
- jweaver621, on 08/07/2008, -11/+134Awesome!
- Lewie, on 08/08/2008, -5/+117Come on, that was funny. Is he dugg down because he said "God"?
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did." - Jack Handey - vjk2005, on 08/07/2008, -2/+106This is insane! So much beauty in just a fraction of a second.
- ZurMacht, on 08/08/2008, -0/+78I really wasn't expecting something this cool.
- Frogee, on 08/08/2008, -2/+79ZEUS
- cslawren, on 08/07/2008, -5/+66This is the first video I've seen on Digg that has left me speechless. Actually, to be fair, I saw it on Gizmodo and saw on the Digg toolbar that someone had already submitted it. Kudos to the Digg toolbar.
- peterjmag, on 08/08/2008, -6/+65I found the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but only for a second.
- santaliqueur, on 08/08/2008, -3/+61Liberal Digg associates "God" with Christianity. And that is associated with right wing politics, and you know how that is perceived around here.
- j0nnyDiGITAL, on 08/08/2008, -9/+67WHAT 9000?!
Wait..lemme guess. "old meme is old"? - Dylson, on 08/08/2008, -4/+60What do u want him to do? Hows a barrel roll sound?
- quidpro, on 08/08/2008, -1/+55I always heard that lightning starts from the ground. As I was watching this I was thinking, "well this lightning isn't". But then, BLAM...that big one comes right up, and just sits there for a while. If that is the usual bolt of lightning, that happens for a second or so, then the initial charge must happen so much faster....
From the vid, it does seem to be a charge generated within the clouds reacting with a charge on the ground...and then the "best" path gets found and ZZZAP, connection established. Crazy. - HHP2K, on 08/07/2008, -2/+56That was bloody wicked. You don't even see the first few seconds of that in realtime, that's how damn fast that camera is shooting. I want one.
- nicejai, on 08/08/2008, -2/+51The cool thing is is that you're watching mother nature perform some weird parallel breadth-first search for the path-of-least-resistance on a graph the size of [the-number-of-air-molecules-in-that-chunk-of-sky]^2 in less than a second.
Now *that* is insane. - yillip, on 08/07/2008, -1/+41woooooooooow that was sweet........it was like a race for the spidery things to get to the ground and the first one to touch earth got the BIG one.........
- Exbzurq, on 08/08/2008, -0/+38Here is another slow lightning video but the quality isn't as good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIU0OMa9TZs
- tristan55555, on 08/08/2008, -0/+38Process and equipment explained in the documentary on CBC, Human Voltage: Struck By Lightning - video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsVhNh6MGGg - RichGC, on 08/08/2008, -0/+37I just watched the CBC video linked below, and it says the 'branching' stage takes 1 millisecond.
Also in that video they only managed to get 10 frames of the branching, so going by how smooth this video was, it must be an incredibly fast camera or a clever bit of cg. - NikoKun, on 08/08/2008, -0/+37Yeah, usually it all happens so fast, all you notice is the final solid bolt. All those tentacle parts that come down at first, are usually impossible to see.
I found it amazing to see that first it all comes down from the sky to find a connection point, then once found, the actual lightning bolt speeds up from the ground toward the top! How cool! - coasterswim, on 08/08/2008, -2/+32It's almost like each branch is in a race and the first one that connects with the ground wins and the bolt chooses that path.
- ersatzphi, on 08/08/2008, -1/+30Well they said they filmed something that takes 1/1000th of a second into 10 pictures or frames. That makes it 10000frames per second, 10000fps.
sick - SSUK, on 08/08/2008, -0/+27Why didn't you?
- xlneoMAXlx, on 08/08/2008, -0/+26IT'S OVER 9000!!!
- JagPop, on 08/08/2008, -4/+29At the website was this comment:
BiZarRroBALlmeR at 05:14 PM on 08/07/08 Reply by Email *
The second starts from the ground, hit play/pause between 4-5 seconds until you freeze it just at the right moment.
BiZ was right! and I hadn't seen it until I hit pause shortly after "4" came up and viola! there is the second, and Much bigger, strike starting from the ground up. Whiz Bang! You may have to try it a couple of times. When you pause just right you'll see what looks like a bonfire at the ground.
There is something "quantum" about this. The first branchy strike is like a possibility-tree, it keeps subdividing into yes/no mini branches and only *one* of the possibilities bears fruit and connects with the highly (or highest? -- that is THE question) potential spot on the ground.
Possibilities finding potential
making reality. - kakihara0513, on 08/08/2008, -0/+22Except that everyone knows what kind of damage and power lightning has.
BUT THE CAMERA ON THE OTHER HAND - Frost9999, on 08/08/2008, -0/+22It's trying to find the shortest route to the front page.
- specialK16, on 08/08/2008, -5/+27What? OVER 9000?
- joegibes, on 08/08/2008, -0/+21THIS article was submitted 6 hours before the other one. However, the other one was made popular 3 hours before this one...
- da_bradler, on 08/08/2008, -0/+21so does the branching stage happen for every strike?
- vinibinini, on 08/08/2008, -23/+44I almost found Jesus when i saw that video
- drewfer, on 08/08/2008, -0/+20It looks like that one type of firework... you know which one I'm talking about.
- MattNF, on 08/08/2008, -6/+26Yes, but can you stop saying old and annoying memes?
- AeroMerde, on 08/08/2008, -2/+20Really, I think that the whole "ground up" thing is a myth. The cloud is usually negatively charged, says Wikipedia. So the ground is the "positive" terminal. So yeah, we define current as going from positive to negative, but in reality negative is the congregation of electrons so the electrons are going from the cloud to the ground.
I could very much be wrong, though, and welcome anyone who knows more about the subject letting me know. - itsripitsrip, on 08/08/2008, -3/+19awesome meme is awesome more like it.
- Samsauce, on 08/08/2008, -4/+20That was three words actually and the third one is spelled wrong.
- joeydoo, on 08/08/2008, -0/+16AND it's 10,000 frames per second in the DARK! That's an amazing camera.
- Hoogs, on 08/08/2008, -0/+16YouTube comments are some of the most ridiculous, unintelligent, and often hilariously stupid things I've ever seen. I cannot understand where all these idiots come from and how there are so many of them in one place.
- da_bradler, on 08/08/2008, -4/+18Watch as our mighty lord sends down his multitude of noodley electric appendages then allowing is power to flow from him to the earth.
Truly proof of existence of our O'Noodley Lord.
rAmen. - Reaktor5, on 08/08/2008, -31/+44Really? Buried.
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Slow_Motion_Light ... - Zep77, on 08/08/2008, -1/+13Sweet.
- TheKitchenSinkX, on 08/08/2008, -2/+14One word:
DAAAAAAAAAAMN! - kiiwii, on 08/08/2008, -0/+12That's what she said.
- arjie, on 08/08/2008, -1/+12How did they do it? Did they use some uber-camera or was it multiple cameras shooting slightly out of sync? Curiosity is burning me up.
- Sponky, on 08/08/2008, -0/+11There's an upward leader visible in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YM-C15bifU -
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