So amazing. Lightning Freaks me out. A couple of weeks ago, i walked along the street during the rainy day,and suddenly the lightning was like just in front of my face made me stood like a statute. it felt like the world stopped for a second.
One time a lightning bolt struck at tree at my college campus. The tree actually suffered for about a year (the pine needles turned brown) but it eventually healed it self and is now thriving again like a normal healthy tree. It is amazing what they can do in terms of healing from such a blow.
A bolt moves at about 220 mph (depending on the air conditions). But, obviously, the light it creates does move at the speed of light (that's why it's used as a point of reference when calculating the distance from the spectator).
Fascinating...after all, it could go in a straight line and take a millisecond longer to hit earth, but it tries to save energy and take the shortest route...the path of least resistance...much like people trying to hurry home! Thanks for the vid!
awesome video! last summer a positive streamer came up from out of the street in front of my house (kind of like the one on the photo coming off the antenna tower). My girlfriend see it but I missed it. We were lucky that this positive streamer didn't connect to a step leader because it it did a full fledged bolt would have struck the stream and perhaps a branch would have hit our house!
Not to mention they always told us in science class that protons Never move apart from the atom, only electrons can be exchanged. and yet we see the positive charge flow up from the ground
@Pupixario, No lighting does not come from the ground up. Even though it looks like it comes from the ground, the light starts at the bottom first and then goes up, not from the ground up. Also, if it did come from the ground, how come it dosn't happen on a nice, humid, sunny day?
You are right, in the film the comment is incomplete. First happens the building up of the path for the charge from cloud down to the earth, but each little fragmentstep in the air is from low to higher, very peculiar. When finally the ground is reached, the full charge can go and that is in general from the earth to the cloud. I presume in general clouds are positively charged.
Wow.........those spikes or sprites (or whatever they're called) that shoot from the ground at 1:41 are awesome. Never saw that before. Wonder how it works? But too cool.
How laughably ridiculous trying to press the button in time. Shall I design and build a photoelectric sensor which will close the circuit in miliseconds so that every lighting bolt in the camera's view will be captured?
+Robert Gift The photoelectric sensor wouldn't trip until the "blinding flash of light." The scientists are interested in what happens just BEFORE that.
+BlindWolf187 Then his manually trying to capture anything is even more ridiculous. Years ago I would watch a storm system and predict where the next lighting bolt would occur. I'd aim our 8mm movie camera at that location and start filming. Captured a number of lighting bolts from beginning to end in the 3 minutes of film!
***** Sorry that you are incapabable. Wish that I could post the 8 mm film. You observe where lighting bolts are occurring. After a discharge it may take many seconds for enough charge to build for another bolt in that location. So you aim where another has had time to build. When it discharges, you aim at another area where a charge has been building. I wasted very little expen$ive film doing this.
His "fishing" would be a lot easier if he had a highspeed camera continuously filming and discarding video in a buffer and then he could press a button to save the last number of seconds from the buffer to disk whenever a strike occured.
well, since the lightning bolt obviously is the brightest of the two of you, I guess talking to the lightning bolt would be the smartest course of action here
A classical element is fire, water, earth and air. A chemical element is the scientific version which is what you discussed. Element is a word that describes how something is in its surroundings. Such as a fish in the ocean is in its element unlike a fish on land.
So how does electrical charge flow from negative to positive if they basically just said that the streamers are positive potential charge? I though the streamers had negative charge on the ground and the lightning bolt positive charge, therefore the bolt of lightning was formed from the ground up.
A photoelectric sensor is not going to work. Think about it, the lightning bolt would already be formed BEFORE it activated the sensor and that would be too late to catch the early part of the formation of the bolt itself. Not to mention the possibility of false activation from nearby but out of view lightning bolts.
I don't see why it wouldn't work. You need enough RAM to record about 1 second of footage; that's cheap today. Simply record in a loop, continually writing over what you have recorded, and if ever the photodiode says that a bright flash occured, record for a few hundred milliseconds more and then save the last second to file.
In theory it would work, but there are way too many false-positives on small, uneventful flashes. Source: I own a high speed camera and tried a photoelectric trigger for lightning.
Yes and since light and electricity travel at nearly the same very high speed, by the time the photodiode was triggered the bolt would have traveled several miles.
Post-trigger? That sounds like time travel. How can you record something that happened before the triggering event? Unless you recorded continuously, then you wouldn't even need the trigger.
Perhaps because Lightning isn't technically an element. Unless your talking on pokemon terms... even in his list of elements lightning isn't included, only "Light". And thus the youtube community found justification in disliking it, and in extension, calling this person stupid. Well played youtube, well played.
I know this video posted here twelve years ago, so it's probably twenty years old, but I'm surprised that he's trying to capture nanosecond events using a shutter triggered by human reflexes. He should be using electronic or optic or electro-optic sensors that could match the speed of the discharge.
an element is each of more than one hundred substances that cannot be chemically interconverted or broken down into simpler substances and are primary constituents of matter. Each element is distinguished by its atomic number, i.e., the number of protons in the nuclei of its atoms.
it looks as if the electricity is there first and is faster than the speed of light, followed by the actual light which follows the line of electricity to the ground. you can see that the path is already there! the light just exposes it.
Hang on a bit ! Is there not a positive charge build up in the sky causes by localised stripping of the moving charge component electrons. This huge defficiency of electrons is then balanced by a stream of electrons from the ground pulled up and spreading .
who else has the percy jackson box set cus the picture at 1:51 is on the cover Also the particles in the clouds rub together so fast they produce friction then an electrical charge. The charge stays in the cloud like a hotel then it forms with other clouds. Once this happens the bolts are so charged they shoot out of the clouds to create a thunder storm. Thunder is sound and sound is made by things that vibrate and on the way down lighting vibrates intesly. Sorry I'm a science geek
a wierd theory is that the ground and the sky is like a snapped wire xP... when they get charged enuff... they arc together... til the charge is lost and the arc breaks...
ummm, no, there are ike 117 elements, and water is a combination of 2 of them, fire is a product of a reaction, earth is a combination of a bunch of things and wind is a mix of a bunch of other elements
i have a pretty good understanding of physics, but a translator places the words in the wrong place. and because of the translator, your comments make no sense to me. i'm sorry, but i think we won't get any further if we can't understand each other
My uncle Rodney Skalicky died in 1977 as a result of mercury poisoning. I was ten yrs old at the time. He must have been a step leader himself. He was struck by lightning 4 times in his 40 some yr life.
Mike Hunter What was the cause of the mercury poisoning? What did he do that he placed himself in harm's way 4 times? After surviving the 1st lightning strike, he did not learn how to avoid it?
He struck twice in one 2 minutes in parking lot. Once in a boat 6 yrs later and once while combining grain. It came through cb antena fried radio and somehow burned his knee cap. He worked for pulp mill.
Mike Hunter Wow! Twice in one day. Knocked down and stood up and hit again! Amazing! Did he go to the hospital and get an electrocardiogram? If one survives the lightning strike, cardiac arrhythmias can cause death.
Robert Gift I dont know what he did. I was just a toddler and wasnt even there. I just know what I been told. I guess lightning was bouncing from cars to cars. i knew i shouldn't have conveyed this story. I was positive nobody would believe it anyway.
Mike Hunter Thank you for your story. There is nothing preventing one from being be struck twice! Yes, lightning can jump from car to car as it seeks a path to ground. Unlikely that it would be the same lightning bolt (discharge). More likely that a 2nd strike occurred. We saw where lightning seemed to go around a metal flag pole to strike a chimney of a house below. We wondered why it would not have stuck the pole? (It may have.) Just about anything is possible with lightning! I am truly amazed that 80% of people struck *survive*! Some lightning bolts have enormous amperage and others much less.
A chemical element is a pure chemical substance consisting of one type of atom distinguished by its atomic number, which is the number of protons in its nucleus. Elements are divided into metals, metalloids, and non-metals. Familiar examples of elements include carbon, oxygen (non-metals), silicon, arsenic (metalloids), aluminium, iron, copper, gold, mercury, and lead (metals)."
so if you say the lightning bolt is awesome, that makes Chuck Norris super awesome. Dude you are one hell of a Chuck Norris fan, he will spare you this time.
That's fucking crazy
Almost as crazy as a JSE comment going 5 years without a like or reply.
HOW TF DO YOU ONLY HAVE 1 REPLY AFTER 5 YEARS?!
Whaaaaaaat?
I even see the check mark but I I have a hard time believing it was actually you who made this comment. Then again it was in 2013.
Okay...
Saw this years ago on TV. It was considered the best footage ever of lightning how it works at that time.
So amazing. Lightning Freaks me out.
A couple of weeks ago, i walked along the street during the rainy day,and suddenly the lightning was like just in front of my face made me stood like a statute. it felt like the world stopped for a second.
Yeah dude, that's too close a call...perhaps it's not your time yet!
One time a lightning bolt struck at tree at my college campus. The tree actually suffered for about a year (the pine needles turned brown) but it eventually healed it self and is now thriving again like a normal healthy tree. It is amazing what they can do in terms of healing from such a blow.
so thats why people were struck by lightning... we produced a positive charge wanting to lightning to come to us and it just... chose us...
No, it does not just "choose", it always takes the path of least resistence.
No wonder negative people walk in thunderstorms like they don’t care to die
@@MJisthepowerhouseofmusic yet they wish have a positive out look in life
Lightning is not light speed, but half the speed of light or massively hypersonic.
A bolt moves at about 220 mph (depending on the air conditions). But, obviously, the light it creates does move at the speed of light (that's why it's used as a point of reference when calculating the distance from the spectator).
RenzitoARG
Nope. Photons move 299.900 km/s in air instead of 300.000 km/s :P
Mark S I skipped a "k" (my bad) 220k Mph (220.000 Mph, 3.700 Mps)
Reason for the low rate of success. Jeff keeps forgetting to remove the lens cap.
lol
Also using an ancient Phantom with absolutely tiny resolution(cropping in a lot for speed), hence the tiny FOV.
LMAO
Gerald Ander Lee
LMAOOO
Amazing. Out of every element from Fire, Water, Ice, Wind, Earth, Darkness, and Light, Lightning is my personal favorite.
Fascinating...after all, it could go in a straight line and take a millisecond longer to hit earth, but it tries to save energy and take the shortest route...the path of least resistance...much like people trying to hurry home! Thanks for the vid!
awesome video! last summer a positive streamer came up from out of the street in front of my house (kind of like the one on the photo coming off the antenna tower). My girlfriend see it but I missed it. We were lucky that this positive streamer didn't connect to a step leader because it it did a full fledged bolt would have struck the stream and perhaps a branch would have hit our house!
this is why i love discovery channel, etc. amazing stuff.
This is really awesome
Waw! thats realy beautifull. How that lightning is slowed at : 1:25.
Now this was worth watching!
Respect for that dude for recording this stuff
0:49-0:52 beautiful sound of lightning👌
Not to mention they always told us in science class that protons Never move apart from the atom, only electrons can be exchanged. and yet we see the positive charge flow up from the ground
@Pupixario, No lighting does not come from the ground up. Even though it looks like it comes from the ground, the light starts at the bottom first and then goes up, not from the ground up. Also, if it did come from the ground, how come it dosn't happen on a nice, humid, sunny day?
How many frames per second?? absolutely amazing
Keep up the good work. Great video n hard work!
this was amazing, just awesome&beautiful.
awsome lighting strikes
You are right, in the film the comment is incomplete. First happens the building up of the path for the charge from cloud down to the earth, but each little fragmentstep in the air is from low to higher, very peculiar. When finally the ground is reached, the full charge can go and that is in general from the earth to the cloud. I presume in general clouds are positively charged.
Amazing pictures...have never seen any showing numerous branches reaching up from the ground. Very cool!
the fact that this video was made before i was born is insane
Wow.........those spikes or sprites (or whatever they're called) that shoot from the ground at 1:41 are awesome. Never saw that before. Wonder how it works? But too cool.
He kind of sounds like Kermit the Frog..
yeah, a mixture of Kermit and Ray Romano
Mike S
2:00 And that, kiddies, is why you should never ever stand under a tree during a lightning storm
"You ever get caught in a lightning storm, hold a 1 iron up over your head. Even God can't hit a 1 iron." -Lee Trevino.
How laughably ridiculous trying to press the button in time.
Shall I design and build a photoelectric sensor which will close the circuit in miliseconds so that every lighting bolt in the camera's view will be captured?
Robert Gift The camera has a circular buffer. You press the button to STOP recording. Derp.
geonerd How *laughably ridiculous* to not have a photoelectric sensor to *capture the lightning bolt within the camera's view*.
+Robert Gift The photoelectric sensor wouldn't trip until the "blinding flash of light." The scientists are interested in what happens just BEFORE that.
+BlindWolf187 Then his manually trying to capture anything is even more ridiculous.
Years ago I would watch a storm system and predict where the next lighting bolt would occur.
I'd aim our 8mm movie camera at that location and start filming.
Captured a number of lighting bolts from beginning to end in the 3 minutes of film!
***** Sorry that you are incapabable. Wish that I could post the 8 mm film.
You observe where lighting bolts are occurring.
After a discharge it may take many seconds for enough charge to build for another bolt in that location. So you aim where another has had time to build. When it discharges, you aim at another area where a charge has been building.
I wasted very little expen$ive film doing this.
This is so beautiful
The positive streamers are beautiful.
I've seen this, its a awesome show! everyone who watched this should watch the show!
wow! so that's how fast lightning is. Very cool. Thanx for let me know.
His "fishing" would be a lot easier if he had a highspeed camera continuously filming and discarding video in a buffer and then he could press a button to save the last number of seconds from the buffer to disk whenever a strike occured.
wow awesome video, saved to my computer :)
Glad you are ith me on this. :-)
Woah!amazing catch
well, since the lightning bolt obviously is the brightest of the two of you, I guess talking to the lightning bolt would be the smartest course of action here
The stepped leader is actually very slow compared to the return stroke, which goes at about 1/3 the speed of light.
A classical element is fire, water, earth and air.
A chemical element is the scientific version which is what you discussed.
Element is a word that describes how something is in its surroundings. Such as a fish in the ocean is in its element unlike a fish on land.
One word: EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So how does electrical charge flow from negative to positive if they basically just said that the streamers are positive potential charge? I though the streamers had negative charge on the ground and the lightning bolt positive charge, therefore the bolt of lightning was formed from the ground up.
i love how the voice makes it sound like him getting a strike of lightning is nearly impossible lmao.
A photoelectric sensor is not going to work.
Think about it, the lightning bolt would already be formed BEFORE it activated the sensor and that would be too late to catch the early part of the formation of the bolt itself.
Not to mention the possibility of false activation from nearby but out of view lightning bolts.
I don't see why it wouldn't work. You need enough RAM to record about 1 second of footage; that's cheap today. Simply record in a loop, continually writing over what you have recorded, and if ever the photodiode says that a bright flash occured, record for a few hundred milliseconds more and then save the last second to file.
In theory it would work, but there are way too many false-positives on small, uneventful flashes.
Source: I own a high speed camera and tried a photoelectric trigger for lightning.
Yes and since light and electricity travel at nearly the same very high speed, by the time the photodiode was triggered the bolt would have traveled several miles.
Michael Clark It doesn't matter.
You can post-trigger it.
Post-trigger?
That sounds like time travel.
How can you record something that happened before the triggering event?
Unless you recorded continuously, then you wouldn't even need the trigger.
utsh hold down the Left and UP arrow keys at any time in any video and the game should start regardless if you are buffering :)
The 4 main elements are Water, Fire, Wind, and Earth, BUT they just recently add Electricity, like 1 year ago
Man I have been wanting to do this. capture with a high speed camera (have an interesting approach to do it)
Perhaps because Lightning isn't technically an element. Unless your talking on pokemon terms... even in his list of elements lightning isn't included, only "Light".
And thus the youtube community found justification in disliking it, and in extension, calling this person stupid. Well played youtube, well played.
this is cool i love this birth of lightning bolt
I know this video posted here twelve years ago, so it's probably twenty years old, but I'm surprised that he's trying to capture nanosecond events using a shutter triggered by human reflexes. He should be using electronic or optic or electro-optic sensors that could match the speed of the discharge.
what program it can be slowed down?
Wow. Beautiful.
The two dislike is Zeus and Thor for infringing their copyrights
did the neghbors recorded that in the last photo?
Wow that is truly fascinating
an element is each of more than one hundred substances that cannot be chemically interconverted or broken down into simpler substances and are primary constituents of matter. Each element is distinguished by its atomic number, i.e., the number of protons in the nuclei of its atoms.
how could you dislike this?
to get good accuracy, roll video at 1 frame per millisecond
This is beyond anything I've imagined.... sorry, Harry potter in the backround, sounded cool when Dumbledore said it.
good job jeff
it looks as if the electricity is there first and is faster than the speed of light, followed by the actual light which follows the line of electricity to the ground.
you can see that the path is already there! the light just exposes it.
Lighting is a gas and lightning which creates explosions when touchdown.
the little lighting bolts that come up out of the ground to meet the big one look really creepy to me, i don;t know why.
and then Thor said: For Asgard
That last picture was wild it looked like the tree was a huge light.
Very informative ty.
Hang on a bit ! Is there not a positive charge build up in the sky causes by localised stripping of the moving charge component electrons.
This huge defficiency of electrons is then balanced by a stream of electrons from the ground pulled up and spreading .
MY MIND IS BLOWN!!!!
How do you feel about that?
who else has the percy jackson box set cus the picture at 1:51 is on the cover
Also the particles in the clouds rub together so fast they produce friction then an electrical charge. The charge stays in the cloud like a hotel then it forms with other clouds. Once this happens the bolts are so charged they shoot out of the clouds to create a thunder storm. Thunder is sound and sound is made by things that vibrate and on the way down lighting vibrates intesly. Sorry I'm a science geek
a wierd theory is that the ground and the sky is like a snapped wire xP... when they get charged enuff... they arc together... til the charge is lost and the arc breaks...
Amazing stuff. Lights ( protons) search a way to react 👍
I think you mean photons with light, but this is electricity which involves electrons
ummm, no, there are ike 117 elements, and water is a combination of 2 of them, fire is a product of a reaction, earth is a combination of a bunch of things and wind is a mix of a bunch of other elements
why did be need a slow speed recorder if he could just record the whole storm then edit the lightning bolt out from the boring wait??
@xxDanielJamesxx High speed recorder, not slow speed.
don't slow-mo cameras record 4 seconds in the past?...wtf why was it so hard for him to record that
that's only one possibility. The others are cloud to ground, ground to cloud, ground to ground, and cloud to cloud.
So, where can i adopt one? ;)
when a - charge and a + charge love each other very much...
Brilliant pictures
0:49 inFamous 2 good ending?
how did u do that?
thus, Chuck norris was born.
that joke went out of style around the same time frank sinatra's 1st marriage ended
i have a pretty good understanding of physics,
but a translator places the words in the wrong place. and because of the translator, your comments make no sense to me.
i'm sorry, but i think we won't get any further if we can't understand each other
My uncle Rodney Skalicky died in 1977 as a result of mercury poisoning. I was ten yrs old at the time. He must have been a step leader himself. He was struck by lightning 4 times in his 40 some yr life.
Mike Hunter What was the cause of the mercury poisoning?
What did he do that he placed himself in harm's way 4 times?
After surviving the 1st lightning strike, he did not learn how to avoid it?
He struck twice in one 2 minutes in parking lot. Once in a boat 6 yrs later and once while combining grain. It came through cb antena fried radio and somehow burned his knee cap. He worked for pulp mill.
Mike Hunter Wow! Twice in one day. Knocked down and stood up and hit again! Amazing!
Did he go to the hospital and get an electrocardiogram?
If one survives the lightning strike, cardiac arrhythmias can cause death.
Robert Gift I dont know what he did. I was just a toddler and wasnt even there. I just know what I been told. I guess lightning was bouncing from cars to cars. i knew i shouldn't have conveyed this story. I was positive nobody would believe it anyway.
Mike Hunter Thank you for your story. There is nothing preventing one from being be struck twice!
Yes, lightning can jump from car to car as it seeks a path to ground. Unlikely that it would be the same lightning bolt (discharge). More likely that a 2nd strike occurred.
We saw where lightning seemed to go around a metal flag pole to strike a chimney of a house below.
We wondered why it would not have stuck the pole? (It may have.)
Just about anything is possible with lightning! I am truly amazed that 80% of people struck *survive*!
Some lightning bolts have enormous amperage and others much less.
Thank you.
i love you for saying that.
wrong, most of them exept the ones between clouds, get a sort of leadwire going down and the actual bolt going up
the birth can xstill be a mystery like the upward branches of lightning
A chemical element is a pure chemical substance consisting of one type of atom distinguished by its atomic number, which is the number of protons in its nucleus. Elements are divided into metals, metalloids, and non-metals. Familiar examples of elements include carbon, oxygen (non-metals), silicon, arsenic (metalloids), aluminium, iron, copper, gold, mercury, and lead (metals)."
Nokia was hit by lightning... Luckily the lightning was fine.
about 120 MILLION VOLTS!!!! that's EPIC
we need the slow mo guys up in here..
so if you say the lightning bolt is awesome, that makes Chuck Norris super awesome.
Dude you are one hell of a Chuck Norris fan, he will spare you this time.
thunder is the sound that lightning makes
energy, pure energy, thats what lightining is
I bet like... 90% of people on youtube didn't know that.
Storms are dangerous
Lightning is awesome to watch.
HD high speed camera is the solution.