Lightning filmed at 9,000 frames a second

Then played back real slow:

Whoa.

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So much the "never-strikes-twice-in-the-same-place" school of thought.

Somebody on that hillside just to the left of the center must have been very naughty!

By Pierce R. Butler (not verified) on 02 Aug 2010 #permalink

Go to the link you gave and here's a comment from there:

"The 92 second video actually covers about three-tenths of a second - the time in the bottom left starts at 01:37:03.814 and finishes at 01:37:04.109."

Whoa, indeed!