Doesn't saying that a 14 billion brain cell error is significant because its the size of a baboon's brain, just after telling us that size is not the important factor? It is a small error, given how difficult it is to count billions of brain cells and the earliest decent methods used to get in the ball park. This seems to me like asking 'How many people were killed by lightning last year?' hearing the answer 'About 100?' and saying 'No! That's a myth, it's only 86.', and defending this on the basis that 14 people's lives are very important.

According to http://rt.com/news/170704-tesla-tower-lightning-russia/

The secret, open-air, high-voltage testing device was constructed in the late 1970s for testing insulators to protect vehicles, aircrafts and electronic equipment against lightning.

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Yeah well, the god of lightning and thunders' a pussy as in, not wanting a saucer of milk or trouble after dark....

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Quite an impressive lightning strike *quality

It's not some law of nature that lightning only strikes the tallest spot or goes for the path of least resistance. I think there's a video that has an ultra slow motion capture showing how lightning works. Before the actual bolt strikes, you can see these little "finger" looking things coming down. Once they touch something that gives it a path to the ground, the lightning is discharged. Basically it strikes what it finds first, which generally is something tall, but if it happens to find something else first, like you, it's going to strike that instead.

Darn, nature - you scary!
"Man Films Being Struck By Lightning" is a better title, though.
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I thought it was refraction from the heat ?

so a shockwave like how a lightning bolt makes thunder I would guess ?