Lightning in super slow motion - 1

Lightning in super slow motion - 1

Lightning in super slow motion - 1

Light spectacular above Alabama

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Guest: Your dad (226 days ago)

Hah, I love the comment saying you can't catch lightning on camera - what a retard.

Guest: Fulgarite (335 days ago)

yes yaakob, the fist lightning is called the "stepped leaders" and branches out downwards in various directions until it makes contact. just before contact some positive streamers branch up from various points below and when they connect the charge drains through the link. the first branch of charge drains, then the next part up and it keeps going. once the electron plasma follows the path, there are repeated streams - lightening always strikes the same place twice in reality!

Guest: Hmm (57 days ago)

Latest comment: "Ekspanzi loose the attitude, I think u are confused between light and lightning. light is an EM wave travelling at 3*10^8 m/s. Lightning is a flow of electrons between the earth and the clouds and travels 60*10^3 m/s (wiki). Which is much slower. Camera can work higher than 10^6 frames a second. do the math. "

Guest (224 days ago)

your all dumb. the electricity that generates lightning is the polarity on the ground mixing with the polarity in the atmosphere. the guy mentioning the paths is the most correct. except one problem. lightning actually travels upwards.

Guest: Guest (224 days ago)

There is no way this is fake. if you how lightning acted you would believe it. i don't know the exact names of the things but i know it discharges energy and little particles (the trails you see) try to balance the charge and the go in all directions but then there is still more energy in the clouds so generally many of them will follow a single path and thats why it stays lit up so long.

Guest: PsyGuest (225 days ago)

Wow.... it's incredible what the eye misses out on... I say it's real... The scenery and surounding ground lights up as it would with a real lightning strike @ Ekspanzi.... You must have been born under a bush .... where do you get off?

Guest (224 days ago)

Why does everyone have to insult posters. No one here is an expert, but lightning travels in both directions, down to find the path then up to assist in discharge. But I do think it's funny that on almost every video or pic post there is someone sayin "photoshop".Do you even know what that means??

Guest: EvilTomte (345 days ago)

224 000 mph = 62.2222~ miles per second... Seems that there's some confusion about this but 224,000~ mph seems about right.

unclebulgariaunclebulgaria (442 days ago)

Even the Beijing Olympics couldn't top this

Guest: Simplot X. Knockwood (235 days ago)

Coolguy, thanks for your intellectual contribution to this discussion. The film is absolutely real, and shows what most people don't know: The initial leader stroke, which is almost or totally invisible, followed by the brilliant return stroke that everyone sees. Try finishing beyond the third grade before posting ignorant comments like this.

Guest: guest (450 days ago)

wow, what more can i say.

Guest: david shithouse (401 days ago)

wow thats so cool

Guest (218 days ago)

People insult others because they have no life outside the internet, and they have nothing better to do than troll the net and be the ass that they are, In short, they need a girlfriend, or boyfriend

Guest (345 days ago)

lightning actually goes at variable speeds, because it is not just light, but electron plasma moving through charged air. Its can depend on air conditions, but the typical lightning bolt moves at 224,000 mph -- or about 3,700 miles per second.

Guest: EvilTomte (345 days ago)

"whatta bullshit.. lightning goes 300000 km/s idiots, there cannot be a fukin slow motion of it.. and especially not that stupid one" - Ekspanzi No, it moves at about 60000 m/s. The speed of LIGHT however is about 300.000 km/s.

Guest: Mr. Natural (450 days ago)

Lightning or just good acid? You decide.

Guest: miker (304 days ago)

lol photoshopped fulz

Guest: yaakob (359 days ago)

Look like it tries to find the earth... when it hapens the lightning gets strong

Guest: anon (250 days ago)

if it's real, that's pretty awesome. if it's faked, then congrats on still making a nice light show :D

Guest: Ekspanzi (345 days ago)

whatta bullshit.. lightning goes 300000 km/s idiots, there cannot be a fukin slow motion of it.. and especially not that stupid one

Guest: Miss Why Not (450 days ago)

Both!

Guest: The Mr's Maid (262 days ago)

If this clip is what we see as just a flash, think how quickly the first, most dramatic part of it is over... far too fast to even register to the eye at normal speeds. And Mr. Asshat below, not everything that YOU are incapable of understanding is 'shopped'. You are guessing and looking like a dick in the process.

Guest (265 days ago)

after effects. this is nowhere near real

Guest: babs (248 days ago)

I hope it's real cause it looks so beautiful, Ekspanzi you aren't a very nice person are you?

Guest: Eric (311 days ago)

I love this so much. It's so epic, and delicate and beautiful.

Guest: cool guy (237 days ago)

this is fake you dumbass prick, you can't capture lightining on film

Guest: Russell (264 days ago)

Holy lightning! It just goes to show you can’t be too careful

Guest: An annoying troll (179 days ago)

I have a boyfriend and a girlfriend and i still think this video was shopped