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Lightning filmed at 9,000 frames a second

Posted on: August 2, 2010 1:07 PM, by Greg Laden

Then played back real slow:

Whoa.

Click here to find out who did this, why, and what it all means.

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1

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!

Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | August 2, 2010 7:45 PM

2

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!

Posted by: Michael D. Barton, FCD | August 3, 2010 12:21 AM

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Beautiful :-)

Posted by: Bee | August 3, 2010 5:07 AM

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