Lightning at 9,000 frames per second

http://vimeo.com/45803576

This is most impressive.

that is fabulous. I just forwarded it to our physics prof

So...how many seconds of real time are we seeing there?

Have no idea what is going on, but it's still an impressive light show.

RossD wrote: So...how many seconds of real time are we seeing there?

The time stamp at the bottom shows about .3 sec passing. That's a lot of activity for less than half a second.

Can't watch on android.

shocking!

That's an amazing video. So lightning can go cloud to ground, ground to cloud or cloud to cloud.

Curmudgeon wrote: That's an amazing video. So lightning can go cloud to ground, ground to cloud or cloud to cloud.

yep...its pretty much a from-to transaction...whoever has too many electrons piling up hands em over to whoever has room for em.

Freaking cool. Lightning and thunder is nature's metal show If only I had a speaker that could reproduce thunder...

That is absolutely incredible.

imagine the energy reveloution if we had the capacitor technology to capture these things. O_o

Really neat!

mad_machine wrote: shocking!

very punny.

Lightning is pretty amazing. It's literally pulling energy out of air. It's not thin air (actually quite heavy with electrons) but its still pulling energy out of air.

Unfortunately we'd need to go around chasing storm clouds with the capture device, and nothing really exists currently to handle that much voltage in a millisecond.

It's amazing how much is actually going on there during a strike - there's so much more than the naked eye ever gets the chance to see.

madmallard wrote: imagine the energy reveloution if we had the capacitor technology to capture these things. O_o

1.21 gigawatts

http://www.weathervideohd.tv/wvhd.php?mod=search&sev=6149

There is more good lightning photography here.

You pilots always seem to find the best weather stuff. Occupational hazard?

Amazing!

I just finished reading an article on this in National Geographics Magazine. The camera that took the pictures is worth an article itself.

PHeller wrote: Lightning is pretty amazing. It's literally pulling energy out of air. It's not thin air (actually quite heavy with electrons) but its still pulling energy out of air. Unfortunately we'd need to go around chasing storm clouds with the capture device, and nothing really exists currently to handle that much voltage in a millisecond.

Didn't Tesla supposedly come up with a vehicle that could "literally" pull energy right out of the air? What I mean...isn't there a conspiracy theory about that?

Yes, the "energy crisis" was solved by brilliant scientists years ago, but Big Oil bought the ones they could buy and killed the rest!

mad_machine wrote:

madmallard wrote: imagine the energy reveloution if we had the capacitor technology to capture these things. O_o

1.21 gigawatts

You beat me to it!