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This is very beautiful, and if you step back for a second, quite awesome. Just remember that those long pauses in the movie where the "stream" is held between t
by sigkill 14y ago
This is very beautiful, and if you step back for a second, quite awesome. Just remember that those long pauses in the movie where the "stream" is held between the Earth and cloud, that entire process lasts for less than what we can see normally. And we've developed technology to figuratively slow down time for ourselves. I mean, think about it. That's almost a terawatt of power. I'll wait for that number to sink into you. Yes, TERAWATT. Like if we harnessed that power like Tony Stark does for his arc reactor, we'd comfortably be able to run our kilowatt class desktops for over 10^9 seconds. That's 31 years from something that ephemeral.
Of course, we can't do that yet. But we've got the technology (he says it's from 2007) to record it to a factor so slow that if we aren't able to make use of it, we can atleast look at it and marvel at the beauty and sheer destructive power of this planet.
Awe-inspiring man, from natural and technological point of view.
In-before complainers - I may/may not have taken a bit of a poetic license.
- ars 14y agoJust so you know we've had the technology to slow it down for over 80 years now. It's nothing new. Also, you are confusing power and energy. It has a lot of peak power sure, but it lasts for less than 90 microseconds. The total energy of the most powerful strokes is about enough to run a hairdryer for 6 hours. Most lightning strokes are much less. PS. Sorry about your poetry.
- sigkill 14y agoAh yes indeed, I confused instantaneous power with total energy. I am unable to edit the previous comment. Regarding the slowing of film, yes indeed, you simply roll it faster . Digital is something new. I just wanted to point out that even with our 'old' tech, there are some mind-blowing things that we can observe till today. It's like giving a child a microscope.