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15,000 Volts Through Wood

submitted by mintbbb

1 decade 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago

YouTube Description:

When lightning flashes across the sky, you only get a chance to glimpse its fractal form for a split second. But when you send 15,000 volts coursing through plywood, you get a much better look at how it grows. Melanie Hoff, a student at the Pratt Institute in New York City did just that, and the result is a timelapse where you can see the patterns slowly grow out and smolder, like lightning made from molasses

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This just in: Artist Shuts Down Eastern Power Grid, Several Injured

OMG SHE REGENERATED PREVIOUSLY BURNT WOOD!!!

Extra Credit: Hyperbaric Chamber

Also.. did anyone else come away with an uncontrollable desire to play Wipeout XL

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I'm starting to feel like, running your video in reverse is just intelectually lazy. Like, I want to be creative but I'm not creative....run it in reverse!

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