When the Discovery Channel WAS the Discovery Channel.

I love these old shows!

Damn, lightning is dope as fuq.

Something seems off here...discovery channel only shows episodes of alaskan bush people, gold rush and deadliest catch. You sure this was from discovery?

The lightnings over the clouds are now proven to be gamma ray bursts.

I have witnessed sprites before first hand while on a plane! I saw huge domes of light exploding upwards from the clouds beneath us. I have tried researching this for years, trying to understand what I was seeing, and never found anything until now!

I'm having halo vibes 1:20 to 1:57 especially from the mission from the zombies in the alien spaceship.

I do know about steam explosions from lightning from reading one book of lightning and hearing a lot of lightning flashes over the years. The cause of the steam explosions in a tree sap struck by lightning is caused by superheated air (50,000F) that causes a rapid expansion of gases in about 1/10 to 1/5 of a second...the thing that causes detonations in all fireworks that explode.

very interesting and educational. Good for trying to understand how it works for presentations and essays. Thank you sir

electric skies, is that you!? it's been so long since i've seen that documentary...

How can you see the positive streamers from the ground (as shown on the photos)? If they dont connect, with the negative charge from above, where do they go?

Fantástico reportaje. Gracias por subirlo.

I miss shows like these :< Its all about ratings now :l

Which ever one connects first wins? That's why I almost got struck a day ago! I was out in the open videoing lighting and one struck a couple houses down from me and got it on vid

a failed lightning bolt

all the good shows like this are on science channel

LOL you just pointed your camera at the TV brah. I love it.

Looking forward for more learning

..."the ground is now aware (1:59) of there being a big surplus of negative electricity"..... so scientists are coming aware (very slowly) that the earth can be aware, something all original "primitive" peoples of the earth knew for thousands of years. Welcome to the real world.

very beautiful

cool!!

I've seen lightning from close distance.it comes with light ball.the ball explode before touching ground.

That happened to me I saw a failed Lightning bolt but it didn't touch the phone pole in New Milford NJ when we had a Thunderstorm

electricity has volition of its own, it has to go where it wants to go in a suitable medium

More research should be done on the sprites that happen above the storm.

no longer a total mystery...

What's more fascinating is that in an authentic Hadith recorded 1400 years ago, the Prophet Muhammad mentions the phenomenon of the lightning and its return back up. How did he know? The Quran also mentions the shape of mountains as being pegs. Also, the expansion of universe is mentioned. Also the Hadith about Bedouin Arabs competing each other in building tall buildings near the end times. Look at Qatar, UAE and Saudi.

the lighting made and comes out from clouds are tubes with skin and fill with like tnt each tube.what is inside the tubes got to come from the clouds I will some tell a group of people so they can have a start. inside tubes also have small bubbles in the tubes not many of them. I know alot more then this. alot more.

I've seen a Failed Lightning bolt not Touching my Telephone pole

I had a failed Lightning bolt in New Milford NJ but it didn't touch the phone pole

i like this video

HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF LIGHTNING BOLTS Filmed Sept 1st 2017 Morehead City North Carolina kzfaq.info?o=U&video_id=zgTbM9_CBZk

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..........interesting...........

awesome

I love old Discovery Channel

@Haukenslush yep its all about crab fishing lol

informative!!!!!!!!!!!

But of course putting some effort into understanding how it really works would be too hard. Sod the scientific method of experimenting, drawing theories and then proving them, because what do scientists know, huh? Surely the best way is to form an opinion based on warm tummy feelings and then sticking to it no matter what.

2 -5 words R.I.P TREES

science

by launching little streamers, up to the step-leader------>--

cool

OMG'

I do to

3:52 a blue jet

3:56 red sprite

1:21 Electron flow is from ground to positive as is voltage. Current flows opposite and 90* behind in phase. Logic dictates that the electron stream as it was called is actually a build up from the ground, where all electrons reside. When the conductivity and charge states are high the electrons build up from the ground until high enough for the high atmosphere + positive potential to jump gap. Ionizing the air along the way as current follows the electron path to ground. 90* behind and opposite voltage. Electronics 101. Am I a genius? Hell no! But modern mainstream science is a con job.

omg........!!!!!@$ I am scared

The title of the video is: "How lightening works".Unfortunately however, the narrator bubbles only nonesense!

Lol

a FAILED lightening bolt

seriously

My views are based off of the majority of what i read, hear, and see. You're obviously offended by my previous comment which shows your kids must be what the negative statistics show. If not, just let my opinions be just that...OPINIONS.

sorry but this is a terrible video. "lightning will strike anything that stands high above the ground" - wrong. " we don't know what guides lightnings jagged path or why it chooses to strike one place or another." wtf yes we do. It travels the path with least resistance. It sounds like a person who doesn't know anything about science wrote this dialogue and is suppose to be teaching people. When was this made like 30 years ago??

That's the narrator's choice of words. It becomes apparent that dumbing down complex mechanics for the simple folk to understand a concept wasn't the best idea, because people like you further their ignorance and read into it literally. Besides, this is very poorly made, it looks the people writing the text were highschool students who've read the wiki page on lightning and slapped their broad understanding of how it seems to work.

this guy bought views