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Slow motion lightning strike

A lightning strike recorded at 9000 frames per second.

The action across time scales displayed in this video is amazing. One strike hovers in the frame almost the entire time while other hundreds of other strikes flicker in and out in single frames.

By Jason Kottke    Jul 28, 2010 at 09:39 pm    physics   science   video   weather

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