These video dimensions are guesses. Eh, it looks about right.
Noticed this on theblaze.com where a Reddit editor is quoted explaining in technical terms how such a thing happens. The Blaze picked up the item from Gawker, so a real circular internet thing going on, I'll bet if I click over at least one comment on Gawker will resent Gawker picking up content from Reddit, they do that at Gizmodo.
The Reddit editor's one-paragraph explanation has great technical vocabulary in it, it was fun to read.
* high impedance electrical arcing fault
* upstream protective device fuse, relay/breaker, recloser,
* interrupt faults
* bridge two phases, or phase and ground
* ionized, insulator, conductor
I like it.
Plasma is freaky. It sounds like an attack.
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Holy cow.
(Does that do it?)
Whatever it was appeared to stay within known suburbia speed limit.
That's something.
Yes, I'm interested in what regulated the speed. I suspect it was the time needed to burn off the insulation on the wire as it moved along.
A 30kv line lit up the neighbor's black locust tree pretty well, with daytime-visible arcs up and down the trunk.
The tree, being genus weed, thrived on it.
My mother likes telling a story of how as a child she and her brother witnessed the following: Lightning struck a tree in their yard close to the house; a small bluish fireball entered a hole in a window screen and came into the house; the fireball headed in a straight line for a hanging light bulb and approaching it, did one loop around it and then exited out the same hole.
Its alive!
My grand parents, now gone, told of a time when a fire ball came down their chimney, roamed around the room and then went back up.
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