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Seems hard to conclude the caption from that image, then. It's like looking at a long exposure of a kid waving a sparkler and estimating that the sparkler is 6
by adhesive_wombat 4y ago
Seems hard to conclude the caption from that image, then. It's like looking at a long exposure of a kid waving a sparkler and estimating that the sparkler is 6 feet long.
I don't doubt there was a megaflash, but I don't think that image actually demonstrates it fully.
- lazyier 4y agoThat isn't a timelapse photo. It's a picture of actual lightening. It is something that actually lasts for a long time. It must of been nuts to the people under it. Just continuous thunder for an extended period of time.
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoThe animation, not the static image, covers clouds moving from North Texas to South Texas. That must cover hours, and each frame seems to be a merge between many flashes. The static image below that, of the record duration flash from South America, shows what does look like a single dendritic lightning flash.
- jagged-chisel 4y agoI assume one of those frames includes the megaflash. But they didn’t tell us which.