Video of lighting strike in slow motion

[Trooper110]

Science: Slow Motion Lightning Video is Mindblowing, Will Sell a Thousand Slo-Mo Cameras

Extremely extremely cool

[mapes]

wow

[Warhead]

nice find, spectacular video!

[Minerva]

Ostras! That's spectacular indeed.

[{CLR} Naillik]

wow is right.. thats freakin amazing. I want that camera... must be ALOT of shots per second lol


sweet find

[DougBob]

Pretty awesome vid. I wonder what kind of camera they used.

[{CLR}geneSW]

Pretty awesome vid. I wonder what kind of camera they used.

I was just thinking the same thing.

[thedeadlyassassin]

That can't be real. That camera is practically shooting at the speed of light, not to mention how did they know the lightning was going to strike there? Could be real and lucky, but seems a bit fishy to me.

[unorignal]

That can't be real. That camera is practically shooting at the speed of light, not to mention how did they know the lightning was going to strike there? Could be real and lucky, but seems a bit fishy to me.

Electrical current travels just under the speed of light, so the current is discharged almost instantly. But the molecules in the air take time to excite to produce something in the visible spectrum. (My 'fuzzy' explanation anyway, not sure if its true or not)

Also the downward smaller strikes is a different current flow then the big, upward single strike.

Heres a video I found that helped explain some of the science. YouTube - Lightning Strikes!