Lightning recorded at 7200fps

[Grooveriding]

Cool

Http://imgur.com/EIJwf3P

 

[CZroe]

Link is broken for me

 

[master_shake_]

https://i.imgur.com/EIJwf3P.gifv

 

[aaksheytalwar]

How do you know it is 7200 FPS?

 

[Linux23]

It seems that the electricity, once it makes contact with ground it forms a complete circuit then starts pumping full power into that wireless circuit. Cool.

 

[mikeymikec]

How do you know it is 7200 FPS?

It's very pretty at any rate.

 

[IronWing]

How do you know it is 7200 FPS?

You can't see the stuttering? It gives me headaches. 7200 FPS is okay for spreadsheets I suppose but for gaming14400 is the minimum.

 

[CZroe]

It seems that the electricity, once it makes contact with ground it forms a complete circuit then starts pumping full power into that wireless circuit. Cool.

This has almost always been known. Aren't all plasmas superconductive?

 

[twinrider1]

Missile Command.

 

[OutHouse]

Missile Command.

:thumbsup:

 

[disappoint]

This has almost always been known. Aren't all plasmas superconductive?

No. Lower resistance than the surrounding air yes, but not superconducting which means 0 resistance.

Source for further reading on this subject: http://www.thunderbolts.info/w/faq/superconductor.htm

 

[Red Squirrel]

Pretty awesome. At even faster frame rates you'd also see items around the area having small lightning bolts shooting out towards the sky. Once they connect it then discharges the rest of the electricity into the lightning bolt that we see.

 

[DCal430]

Actually when it connects with the ground the flash you is the energy from the ground going to the clouds.