Lightning in super DUPER slow motion

I felt even the first one was a little quick.

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[Ryan Casey]

gavin was right

[coolstorybro234]

Anyone else here from roosterteeth?

[EnOrangeSoffa]

this is how africans charge their iphones

[Nick Tulli]

this first appeared on NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" page. Whoever made this video thought it would get even better by putting the original video through slow motion and it didn't do the video any service. nice try.

[Ryan .Moseley]

that hole time it looks still is the hole split second we only see it that shits crazy

[DRMusicRoom]

As if duper slow motion wasn't enough?

[iseemeyouseeyou]

You obviously voted for Obama the second time, and you put your first and last name onto your YouTube account. If you are any indication of what it is to be cool then I think I'm gonna start chillin with nerds more often.

[VideoVisualFX]

This is what i call slow motion

[Robert Miller]

NERD LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[Eaglejon1]

The little tendrils are plasma trails caused by the collective electric charge in the air, caused by charged dust getting picked up by the wind. The charge in the cloud is powerful enough to actually rip apart the air and create conductive plasma. Basic electrical theory says that a charge wants to equalize itself, or go back to ground. So once those little tendrils find a ground to go to all of the charge contacting those plasma trails flashes through that one tendril and makes a big flash.

[Eaglejon1]

It's actually really simple electromagnetism. Once an EM field gets large enough it has the ability to rip apart molecules and create plasma. This is the base theory behind Tesla Coils which create the same phenomena.

The clouds pick up the accumulated charge from dust that it kicks up. This is why we get AMAZING thunder storms in Arizona because the ground is always dry enough to kick up a ton of dust.

[Andy Mcnab]

Energy finds away from earth to travel along the air (conductor) and ignites it.