Match and flame in Extreme Close Up UltraSlo has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash.

Needs a *related=http://videosift.com/video/Match-and-flame-in-Extreme-Close-Up-UltraSlo
Fascinating stuff.

>> ^MaxWilder:

The real action happens at :15 to :20. I wish they could expand that to 30 seconds or so. What would that be... 60,000 fps?


Here's a quote from the OP on YT as to why faster would not work as well:
"One of our cameras will do 111,000 FPS at 8 by 8 pixels or so. It is just to small to see anything, at least for posting. You can look at our saw clips to see how small the image gets @ 63,000 FPS."

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>> ^MaxWilder:

The real action happens at :15 to :20. I wish they could expand that to 30 seconds or so. What would that be... 60,000 fps?


Yeah after seeing that really REALLY ultra slow mo match head ignition, this doesn't seem so "ultra" to me. There's tons happening here that's still too fast to see.

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>> ^CaptainPlanet:
if one more slomo gets on the 15 im going to throw up on all of you


If you film it and post it in slo-mo I bet it would make top 15.

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This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by kulpims.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Ladybug-flight-in-UltraSlo-motion

Sorry pal, this is a dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/Ladybug-flight-in-UltraSlo-motion.

*discard

>> ^Morganth:
Okay, in school they always told us that lightning went from the ground to the clouds, but this doesn't look like that. At all. Anyone want to use the magical internets to edu-ma-cate us??


Yeah, the claim that lightning starts at the ground is very misleading. But the actual process is pretty easy to understand:

Lightning is not a one-way reaction. To make it as simple as possible, thing of it like a balancing act. Negative charge on one side, positive charge on the other. So, once the cloud has built up enough "charge" it essentially grounds itself to balance out the equation again.

What you see in the video is the cloud sending down "leaders" towards the ground. On it's way down, the majority of the power is sent down one or two paths which eventually hit the earth. That downstroke opens a channel for the powerful "return stroke" which is where the majority of the heat and power come from, but only because the return stroke slams all of it's power simultaneously into the already-created channel.

It is, in fact, the exact same effect as shocking someone by scuffing your feet across the carpet. You build up a negative charge (in this case, by 'rubbing' off the positive charge on carpet) and then you ground yourself by coming near someone else. When you come close enough you will exchange charges, balancing the charge again and creating a tiny bolt of electrify. Now magnify until you have a bolt that stretches about 1.5 kilometers to the ground, contains several hundred terawatts of power and reaches temperatures in excess of 10,000 centigrade... and you have a lightning bolt.


...did any of that help?

>> ^Morganth:
Okay, in school they always told us that lightning went from the ground to the clouds, but this doesn't look like that. At all. Anyone want to use the magical internets to edu-ma-cate us??


Lightning goes both ways, like blankfist. There are some that jump from the earth to the skies and some that do the opposite, afaik.

>> ^doogle:
Not nearly as slow as this one:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Slow-Motion-Lightning-1


Yeah I like that one much more, but still cool nonetheless.

>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^JiggaJonson:
getting kinda sick of the ads on all the new youtube stuff

Agreed. You can click the X to get rid of it though.


Yeah but you have to click the x.