Slow Motion Lightining

[S4toSTI]

Science: Slow Motion Lightning Video is Mindblowing, Will Sell a Thousand Slo-Mo Cameras (http://gizmodo.com/5034458/slow-motion-lightning-video-is-mindblowing-will-sell-a-thousand-slo+mo-cameras)

This is really cool the way it spiders out is awesome.

[SpEcRv9]

very cool!!

[TGilb2007]

Thats awesome....

[Erik]

im no scientist but i believe i learned why they do this from "storm stories" or something like that. I think its something similar to the lightning bolt trying to find something "ground" its self to. Apparently, those spider-like small bolts are "feelers" for the big bolt that we see. Like i said, i vaguely recall this from the weather channel or something like that.

I wonder if static electricity from our bodies react the same way...

[garrettej8]

cool video, that's definitely got to be a sick camera.

[den9]

yep, and the ground is usually metal sticking in the ground