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Uploaded by on Jun 14, 2007

Sprites recorded at 10,000 frames per seconds (but played rather slower, fortunately). Looks a little like the monitors on The Matrix.

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  • I'm pretty sure lightning travels upward and downward depending on the charges.

  • @poliboy55 Lightning, perhaps, but sprites aren't technically lightning. What is termed lightning is a simple static discharge between the cloud and either another cloud and the ground. Above-cloud effects like sprites aren't so simple. The upper atmosphere is a sea of ionised particles (and occasionally plasmas). The energies are much greater there as it's charged not by friction but by cosmic rays and solar storms. The direction won't change with the type of storm.

  • Love the name of the uploader

  • @dsandi100 So far, nobody has been able to guess where the username comes from. I'm actually quite shocked by that.

  • @2206411411 what does your username mean??

  • @EpicDrawer5000 It's taken a few years, but someone finally asked! :) It's the old-style (X25) Internet address of the world's first MMORG, which I used to enjoy back in the 80s.

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  • wat 4 stupid ppl disliked this?!

    also like if vsauce brought u here

  • @nikie350 There's 246 who liked it out of 250 who voted. For a 21 second clip that's quite old (technology advances fast these days) on a site that has a lot of science videos, that's not a bad percentage at all.

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