Electricity In The Air

In response to "?", the path of least resistance is not always a straight line. Look at lightning for example. Have you ever seen 1 perfectly straight bolt? Thats because some air particles offer less resistance than others. Not that any of this truly matters for most people, but i hate seein stupid stuff like "LOL!!!one1!! dats stoopid wat?". People like that anger me.
And Just in case you were wondering, the sex life for me is great because of this knowledge.

I could have powered my home for a month on the kilowatts that were spent in that little light show.

Couldn't help but think of the phrase..."It's aliiiiive!!!" from an old frankenstein movie

This was great. Anyone who has worked with electricity or a person who has even a basic understanding of it would appreciate this video. Thanks Dragon! Nice catch!

Nice video Dragon....THANKS

air-The electric bolt supper heats the air molecules around it.
The supper heated air molecules are blasted of in many directions and the bolt follows the less resistant fast moving super heated air molecules upward giving us an interesting show.

very very cool

That's why you're not supposed to break load with a high-voltage disconnect. Only potential. Tell these guys to interrupt the load with the substation transformer breakers first.

i wanna c that in real life

amazing

You're gettin' off topic, I thought this vid was about electricity. :}

alright

isnt it amazing how ppl come on to watch these videos and yet in all the comments there isnt one about the actual video at all.

was FUCKING SWEET!!

si esa madre te toca seguro te ace polvo sin duda alguna

and hey discovery boy,thx for the info

...how long the energy holds on! Looks a bit like Star Wars.

it looks so cool i wonder what it would look like if someone put both of their hands on both of the sides of it, lol.

whats wrong with saying KOOL

if he is so intelegent why does he is on here that means hes got no job or not doing it well or no friends and girlfriend and old

my girlfriends frend was cought on a 20000 V of electricity, he was bounced away and fell back on it agaiong.. 4 times.. he was the luckyest man i know, he survived, the path of ele. just missed his heart.. he did loose his left arm thou... and his liver isn't working as it should.. but he's alive..

That was so cool! Yikes!

how it moved up towards the power lines

stop writing your lifes story over a video

the trick is to have a lot of wet air the more wet the air is the better electric line there will be if it was raining it would be very easy and from the power and from the power offcorse it depends too

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E=MC2 wanta f^%$k? haha ;)

tht discharge wasnt free ..... it went frm the pockets of the taxpayers ...... cool shit is cool wen done wid ur own money and not sum1 elses.

common guys dont be stupid its all special effects

THATS INSANE!!!

I love all kind of scinence, this one is preet cool thoe.

You should have seen me when i first met my girlfriend ;)

PS: Give me a stick and some marshmallows ^^

I cant say more than "WOW"

...yet somehow some found something to criticize. 14 months ago, I went to my car one night and was confronted by 3 illegal aliens. They demanded money, and when I had none, they attacked me with baseball bats, breaking my neck and partially paralyzing me for life. I had played tennis, skiied, rafted, skydived, but that is over now. I do not blame Mexicans or illegal aliens for this, it could have happened anywhere. I am thankful for what I have left, and for sites like this which give me something to do other than lay here in bed and pity myself. Sometimes the racial attacks here sadden me. Wouldn't it be great if this little site played a role in bringing us all together? Wouldn't it be fantastic if instead of racial, religious and ethnic attacks it could be "I disagree, mate, but thanks for sharing..."

the hell does correct grammar matter? It's a posted comment and it really shouldn't be that big of a deal.

ITS A BLOODY VIDEO. JUST COS A GIRL SAID SHE LIKES INTELLIGENT MEN ALL OF YOU GO BONKERS. HOW THE FUCK ARE WE SUPPOSED TO ACHIEVE WORLD PEACE MUTHA FUCKAS?!

Stop correcting other people who cant speak the language as good as you, even if they did, that would be embarrasing for those who are american or english :/ So, understand that not all people are american here, and the DOT com is universal, that means that people from all around the world can f@cking read, watch and post! I dont see anyone with real high intelligence post such comments like some of you... thats embarrasing. BTW, cool video :D

WOW !

this was soooo booorrring!!! ^_^

This definitely wasn't supposed to happen. IMHO it looks like the arc breaks when it touches the wiring above. I don't think that is proper procedure for switching off those lines...

wtf.

Stop talking about the damn girl. The electricity thingy was way more interesting than her. I do have to say that she thinks smart men are a turn on because she isn't so intelligent..!! (PUNCTUATE baby girl)

haha u hear the guy at the end: "WAAT!" sounds like i high pitched lil jon hahahaha that was the sickest thing ever!! next to ronaldinho of course haha but that guy was hilarious!-

This was a fault video - they guys working on the line found that it arced previously so the operation was repeated again but this time with video running. The power line was opened with NO load on it, what you saw here was purely 'charging energy' that a long line consumes naturally. The swing arm is called an isolator this is used to acually isolate the power line mechanically. The electrical isolator is integral to the insulators and it was this that was faulty. So when the swing arm opened it drew an arc - it went to about three storys high before the line operator opened another circuit breaker else where to kill it. If this arc had moved to any of the other lines then there would have been a gigger bang and flash.

Electricity Rock's!!!

Go to this web location for a full explantion of the Jacobs' Ladder, location, purpose, equipment, etc. Fun applied science!

http:// 205.243.100.155/ frames/ longarc.htm

MetaCafe won't post words longer than 15 characters. So.... Remove the spaces from the web address below then navigate to the web address.

So besides "Don's" Big brain and all the others that are sticken "brain envy..."

that is really hight volte wow

See Arcs 'n Sparks web site for more info: http:// 205.243.100.155/ frames/ longarc.htm

Cool

I don't suppose anyone wants to p[ut their finger there, do they?? (One of those "kids, don't try this trick at home" routines)

Hot Stuff

si beau et puissant à la fois

so beautiful and power in same time

now i know how to animate lighting effects :P omfg really amazing

Power and money!

LoL....i cant stoping seeing it,its just soooo coole!

What's with this comment box? Seems to be about 5 miles long!

Sounded like an old electric stove I had once. Welded a pot right to the burner! Love electric tho.

very interesting took 240 volts once knocked me for a loop threw me about 6 ft

Go get your kite Benjamin, the key is on the door..

mmm...electri-licious.

Does it do this when they fire the electric chair up!

Looks like a visual representation of me talkin to my boss!

Had to keep watching this one over and over again. Interesting info JBSkaggs.

500,000 Volts will jump a gap like that. The arcing keeps going because as we know like lightning, it follows the path of least resistance. Be glad it didn't go down towards the people. Lightning is about a thousand time more powerful (5 million volts) and at that intensity it arcs really fast... this was a slow arc tho... it's impressive nonetheless.

HAHAHA DAT WAS AMAZING CAN SUM 1 PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT JUST HAPPENED!

LAME VIDEO!!!

looks like an 80's pop video, was half expecting a magical fairy lady to appear and start dancing with george michael before returning into the lands she came from.

I know about this things , amazing , but i think this movie is fake .....

So fake