Is This Real?

8 Responses to Is This Real?

1. Dave N says:

   May 2, 2011 at 5:10 am

   I think being “struck” twice was overkill..

   Not to mention that a bolt of lightning would have caused the whole picture to become white, since it’s a night-sensitive camera.

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   • Blade says:

     May 2, 2011 at 5:29 am

     I think you’re correct.

     If you click the YouTube button and watch it til the end at the YouTube website, a selection of other videos gets shown upon completion.

     So far every one I watched shows incredible washing out immediately after the strikes, even on the films that are in visible light without IR enhancement. No doubt this is from the superheated air/plasma, and this would show up even more dramatically on IR enhanced night vision cameras.

     Total Fake.

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     • stevengoddard says:

       May 2, 2011 at 5:36 am

       I posted the lightning frame below the video. It looks realistic to me.

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     • Peter Ellis says:

       May 2, 2011 at 9:46 am

       Look at the shadow of the car on the left, cast by the house lights. If that were real lightning, that shadow would wash out completely – instead it barely changes in intensity. It’s a fake, and not even a good one.

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2. Blade says:

   May 2, 2011 at 5:35 am

   Here’s another fake, probably made by the 10:10 ‘No Pressure’ slimeballs …

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSINEylpkpo

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3. Tory says:

   May 2, 2011 at 11:31 am

   Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t lightning normally strike the tallest object in the area? It seems highly suspect that it would ignore the buildings or even the trees.

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   • Blade says:

     May 3, 2011 at 9:15 am

     Not necessarily.

     Usually the path of least resistance, for example a metal lightning rod, will not be taller than high trees. And sometimes lightning strikes near the middle of a tree and sometimes very close to the ground.

     It is all a matter of a particular point in time what path is favorable to discharge and if you see the high speed video that shows the feelers, tiny microbolts that appear to be exploring all the possible pathways you will understand how dynamic and unpredictable they are.

     Someday, in some future century, humans will figure a way to build multi-mile high superconductor rods to guarantee strikes away from the ground, by which time they will have also invented a way to capture and store these giga-joules of energy.

     In the meantime we will continue tilting at windmills.

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     • Paul in Sweden says:

       May 3, 2011 at 10:33 am

       Speaking of windmills…and lightning:

       When Lightning Strikes Wind Turbines – NYTimes.com
       “With snow, ice and frigid weather, winter creates complications for renewable energy, as I wrote last week. But for Ralph Brokaw, a Wyoming rancher with both cows and wind turbines on his land, the worst hazard is not the ice that his blades can throw off in the winter.

       Rather, it is lightning strikes on the towers, which usually occur in summer when there are more storms.

       The effect is spectacular — and scary. “It will explode those blades, and they’ll throw chunks of blade several hundred feet,” Mr. Brokaw, a member of his local fire department, told me over the telephone.”
       http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/when-lightening-strikes-wind-turbines/

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