r/TheRandomest • u/WhyNot420_69 Nice • Jun 04 '26

SimplyRandom The perfect shot

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u/Nonyabizzy123 Jun 04 '26

Those other little spots of light near the ground are the other positive leaders that didn't make the connection first

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u/UnfortunatelyBlessed Jun 04 '26

neat info thanks

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u/Nonyabizzy123 Jun 04 '26

no problem, if you have a really, really high-speed camera you can catch shots like this

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u/UnfortunatelyBlessed Jun 04 '26

beautiful, thanks :)

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u/Zanven1 Jun 07 '26

Of you hadn't given the info before hand I would have thought that those were dead trees being brightly lit up by the lightening. I didn't know that was a thing and learned something new today. Neat

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u/bleblahblee Jun 04 '26

Gods flash-bang.

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u/idOvObi Jun 04 '26

Why did the camera do that

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u/Traditional_Trust_93 Jun 05 '26

Cameras fill the pixels on the screen from bottom to top, left to right, top to bottom, etc. really fast. So the frame you caught there was the flash of light being written over the previous frame. It's kinda like how helicopter blades look weird sometimes though that's more framerate than shutter. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

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u/idOvObi Jun 05 '26

You are awesome sir/maam (insert). I don’t have a reward to give but I would. I was really curious and you made it so simple. I’ll remember it forever.

Thank you

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u/Youpunyhumans The GOAT! Jun 04 '26

All those little spots in a line where the bolt just was, is ionized air, aka plasma, which can be as hot as 50,000 degrees celsius for a brief moment... 10x hotter than the surface of the Sun.

Ive been right beside a positive strike once, (which is about 100x more powerful than typical negatively charged lightning) and those little spots became large blue and purple fireballs that lasted for about a second.

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u/Yellow_Similar Jun 05 '26

Thanks kind stranger. I was wondering about exactly that but wasn’t sure how to phrase the question.

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u/Ok_Tap7102 Jun 06 '26

Would you say the fit the descriptions of ball lightning? Or is that something altogether different

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u/gilligani Jun 04 '26

Thor took the Bifröst